vB4 Importer 3.6b2

[WhiteHat]

Sure, .htaccess in the web root.

 

[TnT]

Hi @ all

here is my version (the latest i found) with vBSEO LIKES
Actually doing a test import. I guarantee for nothing, backup first!

Regards Thomas

 

[Donny]

Hi,

I've imported three forums from VB4 to Xen 1.1.4 now, and I've only just noticed the likes and thanks haven't imported. I understand thanks can be imported as likes somehow, I'll look at that later, but what's the score with the VB likes? I've just noticed on the latest import I've completed, that it couldn't find the database table for the likes or thanks.
Is there a way to run the importer again, and physically tell it what table to collect the likes from?

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[TnT]

Hi, in my version of the importer you can change the likes table in line 1744 and 1751:

FROM ' . $prefix . 'vbseo_likes

Rerun the importer can be proplematic due to duplicate content

 

[Donny]

Might give that a go then, where it your importer?

 

[TnT]

Might give that a go then, where it your importer?

???

 

[Donny]

???

Ahhh, you said "in my importer" - I thought you'd made an importer for a mo' then!
Are you saying then that I can edit this importer?

 

[TnT]

Ahhh, you said "in my importer" - I thought you'd made an importer for a mo' then!
Are you saying then that I can edit this importer?

yes, why not

 

[Jake Bunce]

VB likes?

What kind of likes exactly? vBSEO likes? What is the name of the table in the database?

Two possibles:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/vb4-importer.36391/page-2#post-459580
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/importing-from-vb4-with-vbseo-to-latest-xen.46663/#post-503889

 

[Brent W]

Are any performance enhancements going to be made to this or will big board owners be forced to pay $150 for Slavik's importer? I'm trying to convert a forum with over 990k posts and its horrible.

 

[Brent W]

Gave up. Importer would just sit on a certain percent or refresh the page and show just a blank page while still acting like it is importing. I can't sit here for 10 hours waiting for this to finish.

Is my only solution to waste an entire day or pay $150 to get a 1 million post forum to xenForo?

 

[Jake Bunce]

...a blank page while still acting like it is importing.

Is the page still loading? The process might have timed out on the server.

Adjusting the batch size might help:

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...port-be-can-we-speed-it-up.35324/#post-401122

Or if it's a completely blank page that has stopped loading then it might be a PHP error. Try adding this line to your library/config.php file to see if that reveals any specific error message on the blank page:

ini_set('display_errors', true);

 

[Brent W]

Is the page still loading? The process might have timed out on the server.

Adjusting the batch size might help:

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...port-be-can-we-speed-it-up.35324/#post-401122

Or if it's a completely blank page that has stopped loading then it might be a PHP error. Try adding this line to your library/config.php file to see if that reveals any specific error message on the blank page:

ini_set('display_errors', true);

Thanks, I will give this another try tomorrow with your adjustments and suggestion.

 

[whynot]

My hidden forums do not display after the transfer.
I can see their node in the ACP that they exist.
What could have happened to them?

 

[Andrej]

My hidden forums do not display after the transfer.
I can see their node in the ACP that they exist.
What could have happened to them?

Have you checked the permissions? You might need to adjust them.

 

[Jake Bunce]

My hidden forums do not display after the transfer.
I can see their node in the ACP that they exist.
What could have happened to them?

The importer preserves permissions, but permissions don't function the same in XenForo which can result in different behavior. So yeah, review your permissions:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/understanding-permissions.360/

 

[Brent W]

I made adjustments to the importer as recommended by Jake and made a few adjustments to php.ini and my.cnf to allow for longer timeouts and more memory usage.

I was able to import 1,051,000+ posts and 99,000+ threads in 46 minutes. Much much better than yesterday.

Thanks Jake.

 

[Paul]

vB can store attachments in either the db or file system. The importer will detect which method is being used. If it's a directory then it will ask you for the path.

Does this apply to avatars too? Have just tried a test import with this, and whilst some people's avatars worked correctly, most didn't and were lost in the import... Saying that, it didnt ask for any alternate path other than the standard one... unless i have to specify somewhere else these may be stored...

Also noticed that it wouldn't import likes - i'm guessing that's because a relatively stock vb4 doesnt have likes (i have a 3rd party likes system installed, and i'm not expecting it to pick these up!)..

 

[Donny]

I get the following error when trying to import the vbseo likes now, using the updated files.....

Error

• The existing data required by the data writer could not be found.
• Please enter a value for the required field 'thread_id'.
• Please enter a value for the required field 'user_id'.
• Please enter a valid name.
• Please enter a valid message.

The table name does match, it's vbseo_likes I think.

 

[speedway]

Gave up. Importer would just sit on a certain percent or refresh the page and show just a blank page while still acting like it is importing. I can't sit here for 10 hours waiting for this to finish.

Is my only solution to waste an entire day or pay $150 to get a 1 million post forum to xenForo?

You could take a look at DigitalPoints original version but you would have to customise it to your solution. Thats the path I am taking with my 856K forum, haven't got $150.00 to spend on a one time thing.