VTX wrote:
Yes, I was talking about the yet to be released converter. Also are attachments imported (thats a VERY important issue for me, we have like 10.000 or more attachments on the current forum.

I will see what I can do now.

I've been playing around with the converter script (SMF > FB and also SMF > JB > F.

I'm getting a really odd problem.

When I first ran the script, it had some problems...Noted here in other posts, the script stummbled on duplicate users and also signatures.

After I removed the duplicates I cleared out the signature table and the script ran fine.

The script updated and told me it'd successfully populated the categories, users and threads (showed me the thread count as what it is on my SMF, 20k).

I loaded up FB to find that it hadn't actually populated nearly any of the threads, some 300 or so rather than 20k.

It had picked out OLD threads from back in 2005/ early 2006 and ignored most of the 2006 and all of the 2007 threads.

I am really unsure why its doing this, I've tried it a few times now and its the same problem each time.

I converted my JB to SMF a long time ago, whether this is to do with it I'm unsure (the JB tables do not exist in the Database anymore so I can't see where its getting the old data from).

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tom

Post edited by: Nostromo, at: 2007/04/24 17:05

hi Tom,

My task has nearly the same problem. Duplicate usernames and 100k posts. Hence I'm coding a converter right now that transfers based on Email not username (you can change it to username easily though). I will release it pretty soon.

Hey Danialt.

It should be noted as stated above, the converter RAN what seemed correcly after I'd removed the duplicate users...But it didn't bring over the threads properly (that was the only problem)...it just ignored most of the threads and seemed to select really old ones and ignored the rest!

I hope your script can fix that!

T.

Post edited by: Nostromo, at: 2007/04/24 17:13

Nostromo wrote:

it just ignored most of the threads and seemed to select really old ones and ignored the rest!

A nostalgic converter, it seems

yes, it seems that way!!

Thanks!

Well, first of all I should say this board looks fabulous and I am really looking forward to giving it a try.

I am having a problem with executing the smf -> joomlaboard -> fireboard conversion. Hopefully there is a solution.

I recently converted from a long running phpbb board to smf. When I run the converter to take the smf board to joomlaboard, here is the error message I get;
"Populating Categories...

Invalid query:
TRUNCATE TABLE jos_sb_categories
Table 'dbmead99_phpbb.jos_sb_categories' doesn't exist"

My smf database is actually named 'dbmead99_phpbb' becuase of the conversion. I believe I am getting this error becuase the smf database is not installed in the same db as my joomla install.

So, is there any solution for sonverting smf when it resides in a different db? If not, any other suggestions?

My web host seems to be a little tight on their mysql permissions. I am using pair.com which is a shared environment. The online controls they give me basically allow for creating and backing up a db, and nothing more. Their tight policies are also the reason why I have not been able to bridge the smf and joomla installs.

Although I have a backup of the smf board, I don't neccesarily know that I could copy it in to the joomla db, or even how to go about that, and then how to uncompress, delete after conversion, etc. I have limited skills in those areas.

Any suggestions here? Losing all my old posts would kind of defeat my purposes.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Looking forward to the SMF->Fireboard converter also

I would like to use the SMF-FB converter posted on this thread but I have two seperate databases for Joomla and SMF.

Will I need to modify the mysql.php file in order to get this to work?