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Re: Is it all lost?

M-Saunders — Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:23 pm

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:23 pm

Hrm, that could be interesting. There can be problems when using some phpBB add-ons/tools with PostNuke's version (PNphpBB), but anything that could emspeeden the process would be welcome

M

Re: Is it all lost?

A-Wing — Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:18 pm

Author: A-Wing

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:18 pm

I found a script to do it for you the other day, a universal one to migrate from any board to phpbb. Bloody lost it now. Nevermind

Re: Is it all lost?

M-Saunders — Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:05 pm

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:05 pm

Maybe -- it's going to be a pretty big job and I have lots of other things to work on right now! I'll let you know if and when anything happens...

M

Re: Is it all lost?

richie — Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:17 pm

Author: richie

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:17 pm

M-Saunders wrote:

Yeah, the old database schema is very different from the new one, so populating this forum with the Help contents from the old site is no easy task. Still doable, however, and I'll get it sorted out soon -- once I've done the disks, another newsletter, and various other things in the pipeline

M

Hi

Sorry to chase, but as the winter nights are drawing in, I would like to check back on some of the old forum posts, is this going to be available soon soon?

Cheers
Richie

Re: Is it all lost?

M-Saunders — Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:54 pm

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:54 pm

Yeah, the old database schema is very different from the new one, so populating this forum with the Help contents from the old site is no easy task. Still doable, however, and I'll get it sorted out soon -- once I've done the disks, another newsletter, and various other things in the pipeline

M

Re: Is it all lost?

A-Wing — Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:40 pm

Author: A-Wing

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:40 pm

You are still using a very old version of phpBB that is vulnerable to attacks though. It was a nightmare getting all our customers that use phpBB to upgrade after the spate of attacks that happened a few months ago. Even one of my forum sites was attacked, I have switched to SMF forum (as I have with all my forum sites) and all is well now (touch wood)

Re: Is it all lost?

evilnick — Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:51 pm

Author: evilnick

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:51 pm

yes, there is progess on this - we hired a chimp

We can't re-institute the old forum and database for the reasons we had to remove it in the first place - teh forums were flaky and insecure, and subject to repeated attacks.

I think Mike is working on this as a medium priority. Give him a chance - I think he's already done a great deal for the site.

Re: Is it all lost?

richie — Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:44 pm

Author: richie

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:44 pm

lxfadmin wrote:

This is still somrthing ongoing, extractign useful data and injecting it into the DB has been a little more complicated that expected.
personally, I think we should hire a chimp to type it all out again...

Hi

I take it still work in progress on this? Rather than trying to merge the old database in to the the new one, how about just putting the old database on the site as a separate link?

Cheers
Rich

Re: Is it all lost?

jjmac — Mon May 23, 2005 11:59 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 11:59 am

>>
extractign useful data and injecting it into the DB has been a little more complicated that expected.
>>

Any hints as to the kind(s) of complications. Not a "MS document type" type of problem, type of thing, i hope, ... is it ? ... See what happens when you use MS stuff. Bad things always, eventually result

>>
I hope you're not going through all the posts and deleting stuff you think isn't relevant.
>>

ditto on that, there is some really good stuff stashed away in all of that ... the doubles could well be removed though. That should well shrink it down a bit (grin).

>>
... personally, I think we should hire a chimp to type it all out again...
>>

Sounds like a job for sed with pipes and a set of radical regular expresions

jm

Code:

-:- If the system is the answer, then the question
must have been really stupid -:-

Re: Is it all lost?

smita034 — Mon May 23, 2005 10:03 am

Author: smita034

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 10:03 am

lmao *says nothing*

Re: Is it all lost?

towy71 — Sun May 22, 2005 1:40 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 1:40 pm

guy wrote:

I have to struggle here not to say something that gets me banned from the forums.

let me guess, something about editorial team and primates(not archbishops)

Re: Is it all lost?

guy — Sun May 22, 2005 12:59 pm

Author: guy

Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 12:59 pm

lxfadmin wrote:

personally, I think we should hire a chimp to type it all out again...

I have to struggle here not to say something that gets me banned from the forums.

Re: Is it all lost?

Lancer — Sat May 21, 2005 9:31 pm

Author: Lancer

Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 9:31 pm

lxfadmin wrote:

I hope you're not going through all the posts and deleting stuff you think isn't relevant. Who cares about the double posts either - just preserve them all and get this thing out (please).

Re: Is it all lost?

nordle — Wed May 18, 2005 12:37 am

Author: nordle

Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 12:37 am

lxfadmin wrote:

Seriously, do you buy the peanuts by the tonne, or bag, how does that work?
Either way, Im in, 40WPM, should be done by 2022 (just in time for the next upgrade )

Re: Is it all lost?

Nigel — Tue May 17, 2005 3:43 pm

Author: Nigel

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 3:43 pm

lxfadmin wrote:

personally, I think we should hire a chimp to type it all out again...

There's one in Neverland that could be out of a job soon...