csgofrance
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Hi everybody 
Today, I finally decided to show you my last board running Xenforo Board System!
GarryCity is an old community dealing with garry's mod video-game. We are french speakers (some of us are canadian, the most part is french). For those who don't know about Garry's Mod, it's a videogame based on the half-life 2 source engine, that permit to create... what you want !
Our purpose is to play a more or less realistic roleplay game on our server, based on latest version of the game. A city, some citizens and the head of town. Cops, drugs and rock'n'roll Quite realistic so 
GarryCity was based at the beginning on punBB board system. It was a good first step in the setup of the community, and punBB was at this moment a good platform to create a community. But in 2010, we decided that punBB was too old-fashioned manageable, si we moved to ... Drupal 6 ! A great CMS. The conversion was a little bit athletic xD We had to convert first the punBB database to a system which allows to be converted to drupal 6 schemes, by using an addon. The "system in the middle" was phpBB 3 ...
The conversion run fine, the drupal6 was a great success ! All our members were really facinating by the step on ! ... Days passed... And administration stuff were not so good as we expected. We did many customizations on our system, leading to a not so maintenable system (addon are the super side of drupal, but it can be the downside during maintenance in production...).
3 weeks ago, we decided that it's over !! GarryCity really needs a community based system, and our experience more recent websites convinced us to keep using Xenforo !
But, wait... How to convert drupal 6 to xenforo system ? no importer tool...
First I converted drupal 6 website to drupal7 version ! DRUSH with using of site-upgrade plugin was a great help ! Drupal7 version of the website created in 2hours (drush asks too many questions)
And next ? no converter too from drupal7 to xenforo.. So, Why don't we use the so flexible and used platform.. phpBB3 ? I concluded that was the only solution as no importer from drupal 6 to other system exists... So, I developed a converter from drupal6 to phpBB3 by hand. PHP and mysql stuff as well... 2 days later, that's ok ! The converter runs well (it can be offered to xenforo staff or people who want it). It runs in 2 steps :
MySQL runs out of the hell
And finally, xenforo importer tool to... import phpBB3 data Works like a charm
And now, what about the new version ? Please, look at https://www.garrycity.fr
A few words :
Do you like the forum and the way to build it ?
Today, I finally decided to show you my last board running Xenforo Board System!
GarryCity is an old community dealing with garry's mod video-game. We are french speakers (some of us are canadian, the most part is french). For those who don't know about Garry's Mod, it's a videogame based on the half-life 2 source engine, that permit to create... what you want !
Our purpose is to play a more or less realistic roleplay game on our server, based on latest version of the game. A city, some citizens and the head of town. Cops, drugs and rock'n'roll
Quite realistic so GarryCity was based at the beginning on punBB board system. It was a good first step in the setup of the community, and punBB was at this moment a good platform to create a community. But in 2010, we decided that punBB was too old-fashioned manageable, si we moved to ... Drupal 6 ! A great CMS. The conversion was a little bit athletic xD We had to convert first the punBB database to a system which allows to be converted to drupal 6 schemes, by using an addon. The "system in the middle" was phpBB 3 ...
The conversion run fine, the drupal6 was a great success ! All our members were really facinating by the step on ! ... Days passed... And administration stuff were not so good as we expected. We did many customizations on our system, leading to a not so maintenable system (addon are the super side of drupal, but it can be the downside during maintenance in production...).
3 weeks ago, we decided that it's over !! GarryCity really needs a community based system, and our experience more recent websites convinced us to keep using Xenforo !
But, wait... How to convert drupal 6 to xenforo system ? no importer tool...
First I converted drupal 6 website to drupal7 version ! DRUSH with using of site-upgrade plugin was a great help ! Drupal7 version of the website created in 2hours (drush asks too many questions
)And next ? no converter too from drupal7 to xenforo.. So, Why don't we use the so flexible and used platform.. phpBB3 ?
I concluded that was the only solution as no importer from drupal 6 to other system exists... So, I developed a converter from drupal6 to phpBB3 by hand. PHP and mysql stuff as well... 2 days later, that's ok ! The converter runs well (it can be offered to xenforo staff or people who want it). It runs in 2 steps :- converting users, with (in case and because of my tests) a security for duplicated user (lost of PMs but I will rewrite this part of the code one day) from CLI tool (to avoid timed out)
- converting forum/threads with a web based view, selecting dropdown menus to associate drupal6 forums to phpBB3 forums (must be created before)
MySQL runs out of the hell And finally, xenforo importer tool to... import phpBB3 data
Works like a charm And now, what about the new version ? Please, look at https://www.garrycity.fr
A few words :
- xenforo 1.4.2
- steam auth addon
- many of the @Waindigo 's addons
- Extra portal addon on home
- @Iversia 's FAQ addon (FAQ writing in progress)
- QuoteMe addon (@Kier and other XF dev, why this addon is not implemented directly in XF core ? )
- bd Tag Me and Xentags addon
- bd Widget Framework (same question Kier )
- Node as tabs (idem...)
- Extended User Upgrade "addon" which allows to create specific actions after upgrade (or downgrade). I plugged in the admins and users table from my gmod server on it, so I can manage administrators adn moderators of the game server by using xenforo tools
- LGSL system (see http://www.greycube.com/site/news.php) integration
- XenFrench translation (@Allan)
Do you like the forum and the way to build it ?
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