Hi folks - killing myself here, but I've had a Phorum message board for 5-6 years and have had to move the database to a new host. I was all ready to upgrade to Vanilla, unfortunately Phorum isn't included as an option for the Vanilla Importer. I'm wondering if there is any groundswell support to include Phorum in the importer or if anyone has found a solution to porting a Phorum database to Vanilla. If not I'll have to stick with Phorum, and I'm very fond of Vanilla! Thanks.
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We usually program a porter if a customer requests it or if a significant number of people request one. The porter system is relatively simple to extend yourself if you want to do the programming.
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grep is your friend.
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1 • Off Topic Insightful 1Awesome LOL •Can anyone provide details on how the import file should be formatted? This should at least make it possible for me write my data to a format the Vanilla importer can understand. I've dug through some of the sample export files to try to reverse-engineer a DTD.
A thorough DTD for the import format might be very useful information for those who are using unsupported forums like Phorum.
I feel the groundswell...
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Deploying a new Forum and adding a Theme | Give thanks to the Vanilla Developers!
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Awesome LOL •The benefit of this approach is that I can use ANY email based discussion to populate my forum. The most annoying issue, however, is dealing with "Reply-to" content embedded in each message. Non-standard HTML or Encoding can be problematic as well. I end up doing a lot of cleanup to make the messages readable.
If you run your own ListServ or SMTP server, you can also set up an SMTP trap that snags and stores messages as they come through.
All of these techniques are a bit of a kludge, but I'm hoping Vanilla will help make it an elegant kludge!
Email me your contact information to editor@PaperlessCockpit.com, and I'll be happy to discuss some of the challenges I've faced, and those that I'm still trying to overcome.
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