Migration of SMF to ElkArte September 15, 2014, 03:15:02 am The date for my migration is set: either next weekend (20th/21th) or the following weekend (27th/28th) I will migrate my SMF board (~850 users, ~65.000 posts, ~2.000 attachments) to ElkArte. Wish me luck!
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #1 – September 15, 2014, 03:24:37 am good luck and keep us updated!
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #3 – September 15, 2014, 04:37:23 am With Open Importer it's easy to convert SMF to ElkArte, I did this conversion (95526 posts, 3450 users) and it went exactly as planned.But it was only test, can't move because we need gallery on this forum :|Anyway, good luck
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #4 – September 15, 2014, 05:23:19 am Good luck, Jorin! What's about your gallery? I think you are using a gallery there?
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #5 – September 15, 2014, 05:45:08 am Good luck with it! Out of curiosity, is it your forum already UTF8?
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #7 – September 15, 2014, 07:49:46 am Quote from: Ruth – September 15, 2014, 05:23:19 amWhat's about your gallery? I think you are using a gallery there?Yep, but the gallery is no problem. It is not used anymore. I only have to change old posts with a link directly to a file inside the gallery.
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #8 – September 15, 2014, 07:57:41 am What gallery are you using with SMF?
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #9 – September 15, 2014, 08:03:56 am Aeva Media 1.4w. Works great. Why?
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #10 – September 15, 2014, 08:21:17 am I think that it may be possible to at least restore "somehow"[1] the images in the posts.1 Probably not in a perfect way, but at least in a way that would not require to edit all the old messages. That part is basically a bbcode, so it should be kind of "easy".↵
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #11 – September 15, 2014, 08:23:53 am Sounds interesting. So it will automatically change the BBC from [id=123] (I think that's how the images are shown inside a post, but I'm not sure quite yet) to [img]http://pathtopicture.extension[/img]?
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #12 – September 15, 2014, 10:43:41 am If I remember correctly is something like [smg=123], yes.The idea would an "smg" bbc tag able to interpret the [smg=123] the same way AEVA does, and so return something similar to what you have now (at the moment I can't do a lot of coding, so it may take a few days, but this weekend I may be able to have a look at it).
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #13 – September 19, 2014, 01:53:42 am Yes, it's [smg id=3657]. The ID can be found too in the database in table smf_aeva_files in field id_file. In the fields directory and filename the path to the image and the file name can be found.So what I need is a script which searches all posts for such a BBC, looks for the id, then searches the table for this id, collects path and file name from this row, and changes the BBC in the post to [img]http://forum.hybrid-piloten.de/path/filename.extension[/img]. That would be perfect.
Re: Migration of SMF to ElkArte Reply #14 – September 19, 2014, 05:48:42 pm I was more thinking not to change the posts, but to write a BBCode to convert the [smg id=3657] into an image, it seems easier to me. No?