Importing phpbb3 to Vanilla issues with quotes and smilies

reedc

My phpbb3 import into vanilla goes perfectly, except all the bbcode seems only half touched. The vanilla import makes all the bbcode show up with just the first bracket and not the closing one.

I thought vanilla supported converting the bbcode to work in vanilla. Am I doing something wrong? How can I fix all this broken bbcode all over my forum?

Also, I'm not sure if vanilla imports smilies but if not is there some fix I can do? Either set up an "old smilies" image folder and direct the simlie code to those images, or maybe even get rid the old smilies code so they dont show up? I'm importing a pretty decent amount of posts so I really dont want 1000s of broken images all over my forum where similes used to be.

Todd

Usually we use the NBBC plugin when there is a lot of BBCode in a forum. Also remember to add the following line to your /conf/config.php.

$Configuration['Garden']['InputFormatter'] = 'BBCode';

You should also check out the emotify plugin included with your install for smilies.

FanboyNYC

Which importer did you use?

Todd

Usually we use the NBBC plugin when there is a lot of BBCode in a forum. Also remember to add the following line to your /conf/config.php.

$Configuration['Garden']['InputFormatter'] = 'BBCode';

You should also check out the emotify plugin included with your install for smilies.

altairps

Hi all.

I just had the same problem as @reedc... with BBCode and Smilies from phpBB3.

The NBBCPlugin link is not working. How can I fix both problems?

Todd

Fixed the link.

altairps

Thank you. I downloaded and installed.

But if I enable this plugin the html tags dont work. Should I config something else?

Also, the smilies from phpBB3 still not showing. I see a big problem to fix because it calling a specific URL from phpbb3 for example: DOMAIN.com.br/vanilla/discussion/comment/%7BSMILIES_PATH%7D/icon_confused.gif

Sorry my doubts, I'm very new in Vanilla... I just did the migration yesterday and I'm testing on a different folder intalation before launch to all my users

x00

phpBB, has many quirks with pre parsing, not always consistent. that is why you need to filter an cleanse that data before pre import.

Here is my version of the porter with some phpBB fixes.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15933183/porterplus/porterplus.php

also arbitrary search and replace. You will have to host the smiles, and then ensure you point it.

altairps

@x00 your porter worked very well with BBCodes and smiles (there still one or other that dont appear) but I still have problem with quotes.

I choose to convert all BBCode to HTML formating and the quotes appear without show the username quoted... for example:

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There 3 messages quoted but no one show the username of the original post

(Sorry my english)

x00

Quotes is a separate plugin

for stable branch

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/quotes-plugin-1.2.2

for beta

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/quotes-plugin-1.6.1