XF 1.5 Just merged two boards in to XF, need help

[SeaDog]

Hi,

So I made the plunge and got a license

We then proceeded to merge a PHPBB 3 and VB 3.x board together...!

What we've found is we have posts which now contain code like this:

[bandcamp]album=2594377903[/bandcamp]

and

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl0C4ykr63k[/youtube]

What can we do?

 

[Paul B]

You will need to create custom bb code to replicate the bandcamp tag.
Or, as the album references are likely invalid, you can strip it out using this add-on: Post Content Find / Replace

Similarly you can use the same add-on for the youtube tags, or if they are all the same format, use a simple SQL query, for example:

UPDATE xf_post SET message = REPLACE(message,'[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=','[MEDIA=youtube]');
UPDATE xf_post SET message = REPLACE(message,'[/youtube]','[/MEDIA]');

Take a backup first before making any changes to the database.

 

[SeaDog]

That's great, thanks @Brogan I will give the YouTube method a try (after backing up obviously).

I also now noticed SoundCloud. Is there a list anywhere of what media types xF supports and what their corresponding shortcodes are meant to be now?

 

[Paul B]

These are the default definitions:



You can create any others as required though.