Thomas Varghese Thomas Varghese Thomas Varghese

Hi All,

I'm planning to write few migration scripts for our valuable users to import data from other boards/forums into ccBoard. Kindly give me your suggestions and ideas.

Please start a new thread on this forum for each migration type. So that everybody can identify their own required migration related info easily. Please use the same thread for each board regardless of their version. Like there would be only one topic exists for say PHPBB 2.x/3.x.

It is anticipated to write the migration scripts for the most required ones, rather than writing for the entire world of boards.

Cheers

Thomas

hi thomas,

i am quite sure that i'm serriously interested in migration from phpbb 2.x to ccboard 0.3.0;

if there are no such tools yet how can i do that myself?

Hi,

Yes Im planning to write migration scripts for the major boards, Im favouring towards Tory's comment.

Unfortunately it is little bit complex and need to have a very good understanding of both forum structure to write the migration script. I would suggest you to wait for some time rather than do it yourself.

Thanks

Thomas

thanks for the encouragement
i'm finishing now the migration script for my db, and it works quite good.

it it designed for works for migration from phpbb 2.0.4 to ccb 0.3.0, and i have no idea will it work for other versions of phpbb, but as far as i have seen it there are some changes in the tables structure between phpbb 2.0.4 -> 2.0.12 -> 2.0.19, and instalation no .4 would not work at all with .1x tables struct. it may be only problem of  slightly changed session table layout, but the changes may also concern layouts of categories, forums topics or posts tables, and i had not checked it, cause i was rather interested in the existing copy of db taken from an old .4 forum.

i would be very happy to help ccboard project (as i consider to use for at least next 2 years), and so question: would you like me to mail you my script?

 hmm.. additional info about progrramin technique; script is not oriented in the joomla framework. it is standalone php file. separatly configurable users/passwords/hosts/databases/table_prefixes for phpbb db and ccb db.

Hi,

Im sorry if you get hurt. Actually depending upon your question "how do i migrate?" lead me to think of a person from non-programming background.

I really appreciate your enthusiasm and effort for migrating the same.  You can send me your code to my email thomas+codeclassic.org.

I shall do the modification required for the ccboard integration if necessary. Congratulation for the first ccBoard migration script.

Thank you so much for your support.

Thanks

Thomas

Hi,

I'm also very interested in a migration tool for phpbb to cc03.

I'm going to transfer a forum from a free forum provider in germany (called foren-city.de) and they are still using the phpBB vers. 1.5 .

I hope that a future migration tool may also help me with this problem because your ccBoard seems pretty good for my webpage.

Hi there,

Please add my name to the list too. I run a standalone phpBB2.x forum and would like to migrate to ccB in the next week or two.

@gure: I don't mean to be cheeky, but would it be possible to send me a copy of your script? I would try it out on my board and let you know how it goes!