Potential Customer looking for advice..

Shane Greer

Shane Greer

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Hi Guys

As a long standing vB customer I have finally bitten the bullet and realized that vB is a bloated, waste of space that detracts from my enjoyment of running a forum. So last night I decided to have a look at the other products out there that could fill the niche of my websites forum once I decided to move on.

Xenforo got my vote and although I haven't purchased it yet (must wait until payday) I would like all the resources at hand so as soon as that day arrives in the near future I can get stuck straight in.

My website is www.thefewgoodmen.com

A relatively small vBulletin site with roughly 200 members and about 100k posts.

I will be looking to import my vB data into Xenforo and believe this can be done.

I sure would appreciate all and any advice from you folk. I am new to this and am looking to get myself up to pace pretty darn quick.

Some things you can help me with if you have the time...

How do I set up Xenforo?

How do I import my stuff from vBulletin?

How do I use Xenporta as a front page?

What mods do you recommend?

I know its a biggie asking all these questions but Im hoping someone has the time to reply and assist me.

Thankyou so much in advance.

Shane Greer
 
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Custom profile fields also get carried over which is very useful if you use them. And private messages too, in fact the only things you lose are where there are no equivalent feature on XF (like galleries or blogs etc). You won't even need to ask your members to reset their passwords.
 
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Ingenious said:
Custom profile fields also get carried over which is very useful if you use them. And private messages too, in fact the only things you lose are where there are no equivalent feature on XF (like galleries or blogs etc). You won't even need to ask your members to reset their passwords.
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Cool.. I actually took the plunge and got Xenforo and am playing about on a test forum. Regarding custom profile fields I cant seem to import from vB4.

Im getting this little error when trying to import custom user profile fields.

Server Error

Undefined index: field5_title

EDIT : Sorted it by deleting said user profile field in Vbulletin Admin section under user profile field manager.
 
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Shane Greer said:
I have so many questions now though.

For a start all my youtube iframe links dont auto embed video... arrrggghh... I have thousands... any ideas... LOL
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Can you post an example of the youtube code in one of your imported posts?

There is a replacement tool you can use to update imported posts. Here is a code example:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/converting-media-tags-from-vb3.25035/#post-305054

If you post an example of the current youtube code in your posts then I can provide exact code for use with that addon.
 
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Andrej said:
Yes, http://xenforo.com/community/resources/ (just it is not fragmented like VB)
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Much easier to use IMO.

Jake Bunce said:
Can you post an example of the youtube code in one of your imported posts?

There is a replacement tool you can use to update imported posts. Here is a code example:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/converting-media-tags-from-vb3.25035/#post-305054

If you post an example of the current youtube code in your posts then I can provide exact code for use with that addon.
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Here are 2 code examples.

Code: 
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="[media=youtube]VWgsdexkv18[/media]"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="[media=youtube]VWgsdexkv18[/media]" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> <iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dFjkAax8dEU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

...and...

Code: 
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/B6hRDS3LvQQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 
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Are you sure the <object...> one pasted correctly? That embed HTML has [media] tags from XF which doesn't look right. It's important that I get it exactly correct or the replacement won't work.
 
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Jake Bunce said:
Are you sure the <object...> one pasted correctly? That embed HTML has [media] tags from XF which doesn't look right. It's important that I get it exactly correct or the replacement won't work.
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Ok I suppose I should start moving my questions to support etc but Im on a roll here.

I have been playing with the test environment for a while now and am happy to go ahead with the transfer from vb4 to xf. Now how do I actually do it.

I mean I want my address to stay the same as the current forums etc.

Probably a stupid question but please feel free to lambast or inform me of the intricacies of going live.
 
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ok

first move your old vb files into a folder say called /old/ then upload your xenforo (to whatever your former vb forum directory was called) and install it/import data

thats how i would do it :)
 
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