converting phpbb to phpnuke

Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 17, 2006 Posts: 38

hi
i have a standalone verion of phpbb 2.0.21 that i want to convert to phpnuke 7.6, is it possible and if so where are the converion files?

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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:01 am

so i take that this is the file? nukesqlphpbb.zip

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probably yes.. Laughing

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:13 am

worked like a treat thx, now how do i convert my nuke 7.6 users posts etc to rwsRavenNuke76_v2.02.02_FULL

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:26 am

well do you have 2 sites now ?

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:35 am

hitwalker wrote:

well do you have 2 sites now ?

well err i have rwsRavenNuke76_v2.02.02_FULL on another site that runs great so i figured it would be easier to just to install rwsRavenNuke76_v2.02.02_FULL then import the users over if you can rather than adding each bit at a time. present nuke is a test one plus ive installed a clean rwsRavenNuke76_v2.02.02_FULL

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:40 am

ok..
what you have to do now is upgrade the forum of your old site untill you reach the version of ravennuke..
after that grab the whole content of the forums and dump it into the new nuke...
keep in mind that you have to do that with everything otherwise the id posts and users get messed up real bad,...

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:20 pm

so can i just use the backup database feature and use that once ive updated the forum?

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:21 pm

huh?
explain..

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:26 pm

hitwalker wrote:

huh?
explain..

once ive updated the old forum to what is used in rwsRavenNuke76_v2.02.02_FULL then make a forum backup and import it into the fresh ravennuke or will i have to copy the sql tables from mysql

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:30 pm

well allways backup,even make backups of your backups... Laughing

then when your confident try to import it...

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:32 pm

ok thx for the help Smile

tried many cms and phpbb portals but ravens is by far the best out there.

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:21 am

sadly didn't seem to work out as i get this msg

Error
SQL query:

# ========================================================
#
# Database saved : ***********
# On 08-24-2006 at 00:26 by !
#
# ========================================================
#
# Table structure for table 'nuke_authors'
#
CREATE TABLE nuke_authors(

aid varchar( 25 ) NOT NULL ,
name varchar( 50 ) ,
url varchar( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
email varchar( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
pwd varchar( 40 ) ,
counter int( 11 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ,
radminsuper tinyint( 1 ) DEFAULT '1' NOT NULL ,
admlanguage varchar( 30 ) NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( aid ) ,
KEY aid( aid )
)
MySQL said:
if i do it in mysql

Sad

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:54 am

Do you have access to phpmyadmin?

If so, there is a series of tables in nuke that start with "bb" ... so like prefix_bbposts etc. Usually that table name would be "nuke_bbposts" but if you've changed your prefix then it would have that in place of "nuke".

These are the tables that you need to load up by importing from your stand alone version. I don't know from experience if the standalone has exactly the same table structure but I'd guess it's at least similar.

Using phpmyadmin you can dump all the forum tables (data and structure) and then import them into your nuke database. You'll want to select all the forum tables from phpmyadmin and then go to the "operations" screen and add the drop table choice. When you get your dumped file you may have to edit it to make it drop and create the nuke_bbxxxx tables instead of just the bbxxxx tables that may be in the standalone version.

I'm not sure how this will affect the nuke_users table ... there are some fields in it that relate to the bulletin board, such as "user_posts" that won't get filled out this way.