vBulletin 4 Importer

[Cory Booth]

AWESOME - Worked first time for me - no issues...
I have to say... I've tried many importers to include bringing an ASP (WebWiz Forums) to MySQL.
This entire process was smooth as silk with no errors (like left over incompatible bbcode, etc...)

Fantastic!

 

[Ranger375]

It crashed on me for some reason at the end of importing the posts and for some reason didnt bring over all the forums. I'm about to try again

 

[Edrondol]

It crashed on me for some reason at the end of importing the posts and for some reason didnt bring over all the forums. I'm about to try again

If you have any forums set to Private they might not show but they are there.

Same thing happened to me.

 

[Ranger375]

If you have any forums set to Private they might not show but they are there.

Same thing happened to me.

What did you do to make them visible (to those who have permission)?

 

[puertoblack2003]

so far so good I'm currently testing this on my local server with 90,000 + members it's taking long, going on 45 mins...

 

[Edrondol]

What did you do to make them visible (to those who have permission)?

It had to do with people being in multiple user groups. If you were an Administrator and were also noted as something like Registered User it wouldn't allow you to see it. You have to really drill down through your previously set up Node permissions. In fact, you can easily tell if they were ported over or not as they do show in your node list.

Not saying that this is the same issue I had but it sure sounded like it.

 

[iardon]

So it seems. Great job Paul. Hoping to see more great add-ons from you.

Yes, like the Members Visited mod.

Thanks in advance, Paul.

 

[Ranger375]

I'm getting this error, just about when my threads/posts carry over

From my error log:

Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli_Exception: Mysqli statement execute error : Incorrect string value: '\xF4\x80\x82\x83 S...' for column 'message' at row 1 - library/Zend/Db/Statement/Mysqli.php:214

 

[Edrondol]

I'm getting this error, just about when my threads/posts carry over

From my error log:

Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli_Exception: Mysqli statement execute error : Incorrect string value: '\xF4\x80\x82\x83 S...' for column 'message' at row 1 - library/Zend/Db/Statement/Mysqli.php:214

Nope. Not the same as me. I'm out. Sorry I couldn't help.

 

[turtile]

Thanks!

Does it also import those who signed up through Facebook Connect?

 

[x3sphere]

Going to give this a try tonight, thanks man! Much appreciated.

 

[Paul M]

Incidentally, if Paul WAS in the "discouraged" thing on here, I sincerely hope that restriction is urgently removed now!

It was removed by the next morning.

 

[Rich]

Please make an inivison one and i'd love u

same here I have one to transfer also.

 

[jacko]

video bbcode tags are not converted
they just stay like this: [video=youtube;L7nE-TdoW5Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7nE-TdoW5Y[/video]

 

[Paul M]

same here I have one to transfer also.

Unfortunately, as I said, I have no knowledge of invision databases or software.

As far as this vb4 adaption is concerned, I still have one small possible issue to look into (based on some information from Georgie).
However, its not something that will affect most people.

 

[Paul M]

video bbcode tags are not converted
they just stay like this: [video=youtube;L7nE-TdoW5Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7nE-TdoW5Y[/video]

Nope I dont expect they are, as per the first post, this is currently just a simple adaption of the vb3 importer to fix attachments.

 

[thumped]

i've run into a couple of problems

• users with duplicate email addresses
• commas in the usernames
• php process running out of memory after i reran the import process & it tried to display 10,000 duplicates on a single page...

 

[Mark.B]

i've run into a couple of problems

• users with duplicate email addresses
• commas in the usernames
• php process running out of memory after i reran the import process & it tried to display 10,000 duplicates on a single page...

That first one can't be sorted, it's how the vB3 importer works too, and apparently it's because you can log in with your email address on XenForo, so you can't have duplicates.

 

[Dean]

Mark, you sure about that?

During the import it prompts for 'what to do with duplicate names' and another 'what to do with duplicate emails'. The last time I tried it, those were the prompts.

 

[Paul]

Guys,

Just out of interest (just finished installing ), looking at importing my rather large Database and seeing if it can cope (Threads 317,654 Posts 1,673,663) and see how it handles it.

What does xF need for the import - is it just the mysql databse from the 'Donor' forum?