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Looks good, some questions though... [message #14689] Wed, 19 November 2003 15:51 Go to next message
Squeebee is currently offline  Squeebee   Canada
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Hi All.

I currently use PHPbb on my site and I am very interested in FUDforum.

On to the questions:

1) What is involved in migrating my phpBB content to FUDforum?
2) How easy would it be to setup FUDforum in say /testfud and then move it to /forums when I decide to blow out PHPbb?
3) Can FUDforum handle MySQL replication? I have seen sites using other forums die under sheer load and thought it would be good to see a forum that can read from a slave.
4) With mailing list mirroring, can FUDforum handle a mail account that gets mail from more than one list by looking at the to firld to see which list it went to and sort appropriately?
5) Does FUDforum thread mailing list posts by looking at the Re: in teh subject line?
6) How hard is it to get fudforum to do an include() so that my site header show up at the top? (This was a pain with PHPbb because of it's templating approach)

Lots of questions I know, but I need this kind of information before I go and switch.

Thanks,
Mike Hillyer
www.vbmysql.com

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Re: Looks good, some questions though... [message #14694 is a reply to message #14689] Wed, 19 November 2003 16:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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First of all I'd need to update phpBB -> FUDforum conversion script. The one currently avaliable is horribly out of date. For me to do that I'd need a data dump of recent phpBB forum.

Moving FUDforum from 1 directory to another is a fairly easy process. After moving the directory you'd need to change 3 forum settings (directory paths) via admin control panel and rebuild the theme.

FUDforum does not do mail filtering. You use a 3rd party application like procmail to pipe messages you want to FUDforum's maillist import script.

FUDforum thread mailing list messages using reference ids (more accurate then Re:), however in absense of those it'll resort to "Re: " matching whenever possible.

Very easy just modify header.tmpl and add <?php include "your_include_file"; ?> anywhere inside it. Heck, you can do it via the forum's web template editor, about 30 seconds of work @ most.


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Re: Looks good, some questions though... [message #14704 is a reply to message #14689] Wed, 19 November 2003 16:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Awesome. What data would you need from PHPbb to do the upgrade? Let me know and I can provide it.
Re: Looks good, some questions though... [message #14706 is a reply to message #14704] Wed, 19 November 2003 17:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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If your forum uses avatars, file attachments or anything that would make phpbb create files on the disk I'd need those files. I'd need to you tell me if you use any custom hacks/modules that are non-stock as well as have you tell me which version of phpBB is it. The final thing I'd need would be the sql dump of the phpbb tables & the phpbb config file.

I need this so that I can reverse engineer the phpbb data storage format and import it into FUDforum as accurately as possible.


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Re: Looks good, some questions though... [message #14717 is a reply to message #14689] Wed, 19 November 2003 17:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Well, avatars can die for all I care, and PHPbb still has no file attachments.

I use 2.0.6, which is the latest version, and I picked up your latest release candidate for testing. And you were right, 30 seconds and my header works!

Will a mysqldump of the database I store the forum in be adequate?

It will be large, so I can either make it available from my server at a given URL if you'd like.
Re: Looks good, some questions though... [message #14718 is a reply to message #14717] Wed, 19 November 2003 17:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Well, if possible I'd prefer to get a copy of the avatars, so that I could make a conversion script which is as complete as possible. As far as MySQL data, mysqldump would be exactly what I want.

If the dump is >5 megs send me a URL to it to ilia(at)prohost(dot)org, otherwise you can just e-mail it to me.

P.S. Don't forget phpbb config file.


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Re: Looks good, some questions though... [message #14721 is a reply to message #14689] Wed, 19 November 2003 17:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ok, as I recall mostof my users actually just use external avatars, so a URL to the avatar will have been provided.

Email on the way!
Re: Looks good, some questions though... [message #14722 is a reply to message #14721] Wed, 19 November 2003 18:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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That's fine... FUDforum can import those too...

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Re: Looks good, some questions though... [message #14726 is a reply to message #14689] Wed, 19 November 2003 19:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Good, did you receive the email? If desired I can send an archive of all avatar files I have on my site, with or without directory structure.
Re: Looks good, some questions though... [message #14727 is a reply to message #14726] Wed, 19 November 2003 19:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yes, I did get the MySQL dump, but I didn't get the phpbb config file, last time I wrote a conversion script I believe phpbb used one.

If you can, please send the avatars directory.


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Re: Looks good, some questions though... [message #14730 is a reply to message #14689] Wed, 19 November 2003 19:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Same download path, look for forums.tar.bz2

I have tarred the entire directory tree of my phpbb installation. That should give you everything you would need to do a conversion I hope.
Re: Looks good, some questions though... [message #14736 is a reply to message #14730] Wed, 19 November 2003 21:23 Go to previous message
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Thanks.

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