Hello,
I bought vBulletin in late July as part of a massive upgrade program for an EZboard forum I was running. Since I could find no vBulletin script to convert the EZboard posts and user names (their databases are unavailable to forum administrators), I used a phpBB script that actually parses the html code of the EZboard display pages and creates tables and data for a phpBB2 forum based on that info. From that intermediate forum, I was then able to run the official phpbb2 to vBulletin scripts that would convert the intermediate forum to vBulletin.
The phpbb parsing script worked well in terms of getting the bulk of important data over in a reasonable format (forum, thread, and post structures came over in tact). But it left some stray html/EZboard code in the text of every post. In many posts, it is merely a "</p>" tag at the end. In many others, there's lots of stray code from God knows what . . . links, quotes, emoticons, "edited by" addendums, etc. Here's a typical example.
Is there a MySQL query or vBulletin script that I can run to get rid of this stuff without harming the actual content of the posts?
I bought vBulletin in late July as part of a massive upgrade program for an EZboard forum I was running. Since I could find no vBulletin script to convert the EZboard posts and user names (their databases are unavailable to forum administrators), I used a phpBB script that actually parses the html code of the EZboard display pages and creates tables and data for a phpBB2 forum based on that info. From that intermediate forum, I was then able to run the official phpbb2 to vBulletin scripts that would convert the intermediate forum to vBulletin.
The phpbb parsing script worked well in terms of getting the bulk of important data over in a reasonable format (forum, thread, and post structures came over in tact). But it left some stray html/EZboard code in the text of every post. In many posts, it is merely a "</p>" tag at the end. In many others, there's lots of stray code from God knows what . . . links, quotes, emoticons, "edited by" addendums, etc. Here's a typical example.
Is there a MySQL query or vBulletin script that I can run to get rid of this stuff without harming the actual content of the posts?
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