XF 1.4 Converting from IP.Board 3.4

[Golden Falcon]

Hi,

I'm doing a test conversion from IP.Board. Everything worked fine, but for some reason post images did not get grabbed.

I checked both SQL entires for IPB and XF for the same post, and it looks like it's skipping the images?

IP.Board 3.4 Database Post Example

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<img src='http://i47.tinypic.com/1zwg038.jpg' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_img' /><br />
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I LOLD

XenForo 1.4 Database Post Example

I LOLD

Anyway to get XF importer to grab the img tags? Lots of my threads just look empty now.

 

[Paul B]

How does the content appear in the actual post body?

 

[Mike]

I've never seen a case that used single quotes in the HTML. Do you have any other examples that didn't parse?

 

[Golden Falcon]

Hi,

I've put it on a test domain so we can compare. Pretty much every thread that had an image did not import correctly from what I see.

Here is an example thread:

IP.Board: http://nulldivision.net/topic/1620-01022014-happy-new-year/
XenForo: http://gamersfire.com/community/threads/01-02-2014-happy-new-year.1620/

 

[Mike]

I mostly meant things other than the <img> case as I think the change should cover that. (It will be in the next 1.4 release.)

 

[Golden Falcon]

Well in the HTML it's double, but in the IP.Board database, it's single quotes (I don't know why).

The <img> tags are really the only thing that I'm concerned with. So the converter in 1.4 RC1 does not handle <img> yet, and 1.4 stable will?

 

[Mike]

Correct. (Specifically, whatever 1.4 release comes next has the extra regex for that img tag format.)

Note that this would require a re-import.

 

[Golden Falcon]

Correct. (Specifically, whatever 1.4 release comes next has the extra regex for that img tag format.)

Note that this would require a re-import.

That sounds good.

If I do a re-import on the data that already exists there, will it just replace the data? Cause that would be helpful. Or do I need to start with a blank forum.

So let's say there's 200 users, and 1,000 (no image) posts. If I do a re-import of the old IPB database when there are 210 users, and 1,200 (200 new posts being created natively in XF), will it just replace the original 1,000 of those?

 

[Paul B]

This thread explains the process: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/importing-guidelines.25325/

You will need to do a fresh installation as you don't have a clean backup.