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icon12.gif  FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164706] Wed, 02 March 2011 10:34 Go to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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We've reworked the FUDforum converter script. Please let us know if you can help us to test conversion from any of the below forums to FUDforum:

* Advanced Electron
* bbPress
* Drupal7 forum
* FluxBB
* IceBB
* MyBB
* Phorum
* phpBB3
* phpBB2
* PunBB
* Quicksilver Forums (QSF)
* Simple Machines (SMF)
* TairoBB
* UBB.threads
* Unclassified NewsBoard (UNB)
* Vanilla2
* XMB

The new converter can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fudforum/files/ (MigrationAssistant.zip).

Note that we are not interested in converting old forums (not as part of this initiative anyway). These converters will only migrate the latest versions of these forum systems to FUDforum.

Any others we should add?

Best regards.

Frank
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164828 is a reply to message #164706] Thu, 17 March 2011 07:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
simonlnu is currently offline  simonlnu   Canada
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Was wondering if there was any progress on having some postgres support with the assistant?

I would really rather not dump my forum db then the PITA task of converting to mysql, then adding it to a mysql install, just so it would work.

I tried hacking on it very cursorily earlier, and failed Wink. I may try again soon-ish, then submit patches if i get a working one.
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164829 is a reply to message #164828] Thu, 17 March 2011 10:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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I'll add PostgreSQL support and commit it later today or tomorrow.

From what forum are you converting?
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164830 is a reply to message #164829] Thu, 17 March 2011 10:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
simonlnu is currently offline  simonlnu   Canada
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phpbb3 v3.0.8, the latest.

i forgot my manners... thank you Smile.

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Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164832 is a reply to message #164830] Thu, 17 March 2011 13:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
simonlnu is currently offline  simonlnu   Canada
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Heh, I just check out trunk, and see the work so far. I'll give that a run. I was working reeeally tired when I tried... not conducive to fixing bugs in a mod you did Wink.
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164833 is a reply to message #164832] Thu, 17 March 2011 15:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
simonlnu is currently offline  simonlnu   Canada
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well, so far, I've had to modify two columns: one in the _users table, salt and the other in _smiley, code ; however I don't know if the latter is valid, since it may have inserted semi-bogus data.

EDIT: it is, just that a few of the smilies in phpbb was longer once the tildes (~) were inserted.

EDIT: Also had to remove the 'Alias' data, otherwise I was getting dupes, and violating UNIQUE constraints.

EDIT: and on the other hand, it causes problems of its own, doing that Wink.

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Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164834 is a reply to message #164833] Thu, 17 March 2011 17:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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Please see
http://fudforum.svn.sourceforge.net/fudforum/?rev=5194&view=rev
for PostgreSQL support and some other fixes.

The problem with salt in the users table was solved (I hope).

The '~' in the smiley codes are valid. FUDforum uses a '~' as separator between codes.

Can you please post more details about the 'alias' problem? I would be able to solve it if I can somehow reproduce the problem.

Thanks for helping us to resolve these issues!
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164835 is a reply to message #164834] Thu, 17 March 2011 22:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
simonlnu is currently offline  simonlnu   Canada
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The alias thing was something on my part, at least in part; has to do with the bot users not necessarily having the right data. I got it mostly working eventually, but it chokes on some posts.

anonymised:

convert.php:364
 conversionmaps/phpBB3.map:144
 convert.php:753
 ) 42601: ERROR: syntax error at or near "1" LINE 1: 1 ^
 Query: 1
 _POST: array ( 'from' => 'phpBB3', 'cfg' => '$PHPBB3_FORUM_DIR', 'verbose' => '1', 'submit' => 'Start conversion', )
 Database version: 9.0.3
 [Referring Page] http://site.tld/forumlocation/convert.php


the log is more informative, basically a value ends up being null, so there's a SQL syntax error

STATEMENT:  INSERT INTO _thread (
            id, forum_id, root_msg_id, views, replies, thread_opt, orderexpiry
            ) VALUES(
                784,
                ,
                1135,
                6,
                0,
                0,
                0)

Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164836 is a reply to message #164835] Thu, 17 March 2011 22:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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i'll post a patch shortly for the changes i did (you probably won't want to keep them all, i can guarantee it Wink
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164838 is a reply to message #164836] Thu, 17 March 2011 22:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
simonlnu is currently offline  simonlnu   Canada
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[PATCH] svn original compared to mine.

now i gotta clean up the fud database, hehe

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Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164842 is a reply to message #164838] Thu, 17 March 2011 23:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
simonlnu is currently offline  simonlnu   Canada
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found the original problem with alias, but then choked later with the bot users

2011-03-18 03:09:35 UTC 192.168.1.1(30164) (user@dbname): ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "" at character 557
2011-03-18 03:09:35 UTC 192.168.1.1(30164) (user@dbname): STATEMENT:  INSERT INTO fud_users
            (id, login, alias, name, passwd, salt, last_visit, last_read, join_date,
            email, home_page, location, time_zone, sig, avatar, avatar_loc,
            icq, aim, yahoo, msnm, users_opt, theme)
            VALUES (
            2,
-- I Inserted the PHP code here for clarity and anonymity
	'. _esc($user['login']) .',
	'. _esc(htmlspecialchars($user['login'])) .',
	'. _esc($user['name']) .', 
                '',
                '',
                '',
                'hashed_password',
                'hash',
                1272115119,
                1272115119,
                1194157086,
                'admin(at)emailaddress(dot)tld',
                '',
                '',
                '-5.00',
                '<font size="150"><b><font color="#FF0000">If you have a problem with the board, contact me.</font></b></font>',
                0,
                '',
                '',
                '',
                '',
                '',
                5436407,
                2
                )
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164843 is a reply to message #164838] Fri, 18 March 2011 03:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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simonlnu wrote:
now i gotta clean up the fud database, hehe


No need to clean up anything. Just re-run the converter.

simonlnu wrote:
STATEMENT: INSERT INTO _thread ( id, forum_id, root_msg_id, views, replies, thread_opt, orderexpiry ) VALUES( 784, ,


A thread that's not in a forum? I guess we can simply ignore these.
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164844 is a reply to message #164843] Fri, 18 March 2011 04:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
simonlnu is currently offline  simonlnu   Canada
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it's that non value there that make it choke, the "784, ," thing.

EDIT: in the patch, i do some weird stuff to get around the empty id. that's probably what made the topics and such all crazy (see my later post from a few minutes ago [07:54 local, 11:54 UTC])

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Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164845 is a reply to message #164844] Fri, 18 March 2011 04:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
simonlnu is currently offline  simonlnu   Canada
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got it

will post patch shortly

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Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164851 is a reply to message #164845] Fri, 18 March 2011 07:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
simonlnu is currently offline  simonlnu   Canada
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however, i can't login... trying to figure it out
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164852 is a reply to message #164851] Fri, 18 March 2011 08:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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well, reset pass, all's good. one thing i note once i rebuilt everything... the categories, topics are screwed up.. topics/posts aren't with the categories they belong to. PM me if you want to see, i'll post a link to both the original and the new forum

Edit: more i think about it, the more i think it is that funky stuff i did in the patch (#2)

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Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164855 is a reply to message #164852] Fri, 18 March 2011 18:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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An updated MigrationAssistant.zip is now available at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fudforum/files/
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164856 is a reply to message #164855] Fri, 18 March 2011 19:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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good job naudefj, works nicely Very Happy
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #164857 is a reply to message #164856] Fri, 18 March 2011 20:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I increased the size of the ip_addr column to 40 for IPv6 addresses in $FUD_PREFIX_msg
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #165663 is a reply to message #164706] Mon, 01 August 2011 01:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I have been trying to get the latest migration assistant to convert phpbb3 and keep getting stuck on a couple of things.

Running php5.2.17, Apache 2.2.19, MySQL 5.5.14 on WinXPProSP3 (just for test/dev - I use Linux for production)

1) The phpBB3 config.php uses $dbport variable. The connect script in the migration assistant apparently does not use $dbport but either assumes that the port will be read from the services file or php.ini, or assumes it will use the socket instead. Even though the port is defined in services (mysql-tcp) and the port is set in the mysqli section of php.ini, it doesn't seem to use it.

The only way I can get the convert.php to connect is by commenting out the $dbport setting in phpbb3's config.php and adding the port to the $dbhost variable ('localhost:3306'), and when I do that, the convert.php script will connect to the phpbb3 database, but that breaks phpbb3's access to the database.

2) The source phpBB3's data has some utf8 character-set data. It has occurred for me in the location field of the user table, but if it happens there I expect it would happen elsewhere as it encounters utf8 characters in other tables/fields as the conversion progresses past the user import. When it does, it fails to continue, giving this error (confidential info replaced with strings of x'es):
E:\halftb\xxxx\FUDforum_3.0.2\fudforum\convert.php:751
) 1366: Incorrect string value: '\xEDa)' for column 'location' at row 1
Query: INSERT INTO fud30_users (id, login, alias, name, passwd, salt, last_visit, last_read, join_date, email, home_page, location, time_zone, sig, avatar, avatar_loc, icq, aim, yahoo, msnm, users_opt, theme) VALUES ( 1752, 'gxxxx7', 'gxxxx7', 'gxxxx7', 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx..xxxxxx', '', 1205384388, 1205384388, 1158515359, 'gxxxx7(at)hotmail(dot)com', '', 'Caracas (while in vacations Lecher�a)', '0.00', '', 0, '<img src=\"h t t p : / / testpc.xxxxx/fud2//images/custom_avatars/3989bd335ab62e53c32b638e45a83adb_1752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />', 0, '', '', '', 4387830, 1 )


WRT #1, I can deal with working around the change needed to make the connect work, but it is something you should add to your buglist. The different method phpBB3 uses, even if it's non-standard, shouldn't make the conversion fail; the difference should be handled in the phpbb3 conversion map or something, if by no other means, at least by concatenating $dbhost .':'. $dbport if $dbport is set, when building your connect string.

WRT #2, is there a way to make it accept UTF8 data? Is this a function of how the database or tables were defined in MySQL by the FUDforum 3.0.2 installer, or is it in a globals file or something, or is there a function within the convert.php that should be modified to add logic to convert the UTF8 characters?
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #165664 is a reply to message #165663] Mon, 01 August 2011 16:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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#1 will be fixed in the next release.

For #2, can you create the DB as UTF-8? Alternatively, run the the MySQL Charset Converter (in ACP) to convert all tables to UTF-8.
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #165675 is a reply to message #165664] Thu, 04 August 2011 04:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I tried the SVN of the migration assistant, against 3.03RC1, and had reasonable success a) with the connect to the phpBB3 database, and 2) with the avatar, smilies and user imports.

It choked after importing the topics, when trying to import the messages. The subject field in phpbb3 is varchar 255 while in FUD the subject field is vc 100. Eight of the messages (out of thousands) have more than 100 characters.

Any chance of there being some provision for this? I noticed the same difference exists in the PM subject line field; again phpBB3's is 255 while FUDforum's is 100.

If I change the field size in the FUDforum database to fit any data coming from phpBB3 will that break functionality?

I could change the subject line to fit 100 characters, manually, for those phpBB3 fields using more than 100, but I really hate the idea of my users losing any of their content because of limitations in the (hopefully) new forum software.
Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #165677 is a reply to message #165675] Thu, 04 August 2011 05:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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ShineOn wrote:
It choked after importing the topics, when trying to import the messages. The subject field in phpbb3 is varchar 255 while in FUD the subject field is vc 100. Eight of the messages (out of thousands) have more than 100 characters.


No, it won't break anything. Go ahead and increase it to 255.

PS: I'll also change FUDforum's default to 255 for the next release (next RC or final 3.0.3).
FUDforum Migration Assistant - worked well on MyBB [message #168877 is a reply to message #165677] Thu, 01 August 2013 17:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Just used Migration Assistant to import contents of the latest version of MyBB.

Worked perfectly.

Thanks for providing it.

Re: FUDforum Migration Assistant [message #188310 is a reply to message #164706] Wed, 12 April 2023 18:29 Go to previous message
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Hi!

Just found this wonderful piece of forum software and now I'm planning on migrating our current forum from Simple Machines to FUD, but I found that the Migration Assistant is not really working with PHP 7.4 anymore.
Any plans to update the converter or am I doomed to stay on SMF?
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