I'll for sure help out in the bugfixing - I haven't really been using git yet - but have been using other source control systems like cvs and svn for the last 8 years...
@bobtheman - yes i've had great success with the converssion - it's not a thorough import of everything in phpbb i've made... I've focused on getting the simple user data, categories, discussions and comments - and that worked fine...
Still have so…
@Lincoln I've already created a password authenticator inspired by yours for vBulletin..
I took the phpbb3 internal functions for hashing the passwords and used them almost as is in the authenticator....
It work's like a charm... I will put it up…
You can use the file conf/locale.php I do that for now, to get the translation i need...
Here is some of what i have in my file, for some danish translations:
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$Definition['Activity'] = 'Aktivitet';
$Definition['Discussions'] = 'Debatter';
$Def…
I'm migrating a phpbb3 board to vanilla2 - it's been done almost entirely through sql... And a password converter inspired by @Lincoln's work.
As far as I remember the only thing i needed to "hardcode" in the sql script was the user groups i wanted…
@Lincoln Cool - something came up (security flaw in phpBB and some other issues) that changed my priorities so I'm migrating a phpBB forum right now to vanilla2. The size is about half the bbpress that's up for migration afterwards.
Trying to do p…
@fredwu I agree - but I went through the vanilla 1 to 2 importer and it didn't have that structure in my vague look at it yesterday...
Anyway I'm up for helping out.
I'm a bit hesitant about using a "standard" importer in my situations, as it's rather large forums, and it will probably timeout before it's finished, if that functionality is not taken care of in the implementation.
I think i will look into some m…
Im hoping to put in production in a 54000 topics 415000 posts forum in a short while - need to do the theming first though and a couple of specialized plugins I need for the implementation...