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Project Support => Support => Topic started by: Jorin on August 12, 2015, 05:03:19 am

Title: Migration from Kunena (Joomla plugin) to ElkArte possible?
Post by: Jorin on August 12, 2015, 05:03:19 am
For a possbile project in the future the question pops in mind: Is there any way to migrate posts from a Kunena board (it's a Joomla plugin) into an existing ElkArte forum?

I know there would be issues with the post IDs which could be doubled. Maybe use different boards could be a solution?
Title: Re: Migration from Kunena (Joomla plugin) to ElkArte possible?
Post by: Flavio93Zena on August 12, 2015, 08:27:11 am
I'm not sure a plugin exists to convert from Kunena to Elk... Maybe you have to run an intermediate SMF and then convert it again? I can't seem to find a Kunena to SMF, maybe @emanuele knows better?
Title: Re: Migration from Kunena (Joomla plugin) to ElkArte possible?
Post by: emanuele on August 12, 2015, 08:44:37 am
No, at the moment Kunena is not on the list of available "sources".
And going the SMF-way may not be enough either (I think it depends on the Kunena version).

If the project has not tight deadlines, I'd be interested in coding the converter, but most likely only after 1.1 beta release, not before. :(
Title: Re: Migration from Kunena (Joomla plugin) to ElkArte possible?
Post by: Flavio93Zena on August 12, 2015, 08:54:19 am
Quote from: emanuele – And going the SMF-way may not be enough either (I think it depends on the Kunena version).
True, but at least there is a chance :)
Title: Re: Migration from Kunena (Joomla plugin) to ElkArte possible?
Post by: radu81 on August 12, 2015, 10:38:24 am
I'm pretty sure there is a converter from kunena to smf, but I don't remember which was the last version  supported of kunena.
Title: Re: Migration from Kunena (Joomla plugin) to ElkArte possible?
Post by: wintstar on August 12, 2015, 10:49:56 am
[SMF - Converter] Kunena 3.0 (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=527238.msg3738498#msg3738498)

Current Kunena version is Version  4.0.3


Title: Re: Migration from Kunena (Joomla plugin) to ElkArte possible?
Post by: Flavio93Zena on August 12, 2015, 03:35:33 pm
You could ask margarett to update it...
Title: Re: Migration from Kunena (Joomla plugin) to ElkArte possible?
Post by: Jorin on August 13, 2015, 11:22:56 am
Thank you all very much! First I have to find out which Kunena version there is. But great there is an importer. Can't be too difficult to update it to work with the used Kunena version.
Title: Re: Migration from Kunena (Joomla plugin) to ElkArte possible?
Post by: Flavio93Zena on August 13, 2015, 01:13:24 pm
Quote from: Jorin – Thank you all very much! First I have to find out which Kunena version there is. But great there is an importer. Can't be too difficult to update it to work with the used Kunena version.
Not necessarily, it depends on if and how they changed stuff in the db...
Title: Re: Migration from Kunena (Joomla plugin) to ElkArte possible?
Post by: Jorin on August 15, 2015, 01:02:47 am
I don't think there were any changes.

Kunena 1.5.12 | 2010-06-19 | 1897 [ Calificar ]

For messages UddeIM is used, along with CommunityBuilder and some other plugins.
Title: Re: Migration from Kunena (Joomla plugin) to ElkArte possible?
Post by: Flavio93Zena on August 15, 2015, 02:14:47 am
Well, if they didn't change anything in the db, it could work. And there is only one way to find out :P