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OpenImporter / Re: any chance of getting an importer for vanilla?

Last post by vbgamer45 - Today at 05:51:24 pm

The converters and upgrader are a mess on SMF sadly. I still can't forget the SMF 2.0.14 update that broke old PHP versions. Should have been patched/rolled back.

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OpenImporter / Re: any chance of getting an importer for vanilla?

Last post by inter - November 10, 2018, 08:23:15 pm

maybe: vanilla -> phpbb -> elkarte

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Chit Chat / Re: Stress relief

Last post by badmonkey - November 10, 2018, 07:36:41 pm

We are enroute to visit an old friend with cancer. While there is a solumn component to the trip, we will have fun with it as well.

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OpenImporter / Re: any chance of getting an importer for vanilla?

Last post by tino - November 10, 2018, 02:48:39 pm

Try the attached file to convert to SMF. I needed to recount the boards etc after it was converted.

Also make sure your admin account isn't the same username as the one on SMF as it changes the password and locked me out. I think everyone will have to reset their password to login.

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OpenImporter / Re: any chance of getting an importer for vanilla?

Last post by tino - November 10, 2018, 02:22:45 pm

I looked in to the script. It was built using mysql so anything before php7 it doesn't like working with mysqli as I found out. There are also errors with using mktime and I'm getting wrong datatype errors also.

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OpenImporter / Re: any chance of getting an importer for vanilla?

Last post by ahrasis - November 10, 2018, 12:09:42 pm

Sometimes you may need to port elsewhere before re-porting from there to ElkArte. Just a thought.

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OpenImporter / Re: any chance of getting an importer for vanilla?

Last post by radu81 - November 10, 2018, 10:33:43 am

I can't help you with an importer from Vanilla to Elkarte, I'm not a coder, just a simple forum admin. I don't know if there are any plans to add Vanilla to Open Importer, I guess @emanuele‍ can answer this question.

I saw your topic on smf forums, but you did not provide information that can help developers understand what problems did you have. Try posting the errors you got into your php error log. I also saw that someone was able to import from Vanilla to SMF, so the importer should work.

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OpenImporter / Re: any chance of getting an importer for vanilla?

Last post by brenwa - November 10, 2018, 01:25:51 am

Hi

Actually my first choice was smf, and the importer they have for vanilla does not work, I posted on their forum about it and someone provided an alternative version and it did not work either it just hung.

The documentation they provide for migrating is very poor, looking at the smf info it looks very simple easy and straightforward, but in reality it is not

At that point no-one was responding to my post and I could not get any assistance at all... I was dead in the water so I began looking for another alternative and that is how I arrived here.

So... you can see how that is not really an option but in theory a great idea

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OpenImporter / Re: any chance of getting an importer for vanilla?

Last post by radu81 - November 09, 2018, 09:17:29 pm

Hi and welcome to elkarte!
Have you tried to migrate first to smf then to elkarte? If so what problems did you had?

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OpenImporter / any chance of getting an importer for vanilla?

Last post by brenwa - November 09, 2018, 02:48:57 am

I have a site set up with vanilla 2.5 and its still pretty small...but vanillas limitations are starting to show

I have been looking at alternative forums and really like what Im seeing here, but
I do need to be able to import my posts and users

any thoughts suggestions?

thanks