Import Members from Yahoogroups

[Budget101]

Deleted. Couldn't find the delete option.

[Budget101]

Importing MySQL into an Existing Board (Need help!)

I have transferred 50,000+ msgs from yahoogroups to MySQL along with 5,000+ members and plan to import them into an existing vb using Impex.

My question is, Can I specify Which (already existing) forums the Messages are Imported Into? If so, How?

Can I specify a Usergroup ID for the 5,000+ Members that are being Imported? If so, How?

~TIA!~

[Steve Machol]

No sorry. There is no option to do that.

[Budget101]

So if I import them, where will all the messages end up???

[Steve Machol]

I'm not familiar with Yahoogroups but if that contains forum, then Impex will import those forums. If not, then it will create an import forum and place all the threads in that.

[Budget101]

Thank you steve, I appreciate your rapid response. :-)

[Budget101]

Question Re: define('skipparentids', true);

Ok, I am importing my yg msgs from a MySql file. It imported the threads correctly, but on the import Posts I am getting over 5,000 fails.

It says "Did not Find Thread Parent".

I was hoping changing this line:

define('skipparentids', false); 

to

define('skipparentids', true); 

would help, but didn't.

Any suggestions or ideas?

[Budget101]

Cleaning up HTML, Cleaner.php wont work??

Okay, I've installed a huge yahoogroup and all members, etc, but now I'm trying to run the cleaner.php script and I'm getting the following error:

"Not Active"


wth am I doing wrong??

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Steve Machol]

You need to look at the source code for cleaner.php and edit it accordingly.

[Budget101]

<DIV> tag question

$replacer = array( 
            "<div>"    => "", 

There are huge amounts of <div> tags showing in the posts after importing. Can I safely delete these with the replacer array or will it cause errors within the forums?

[Jerry]

Ok, I am importing my yg msgs from a MySql file. It imported the threads correctly, but on the import Posts I am getting over 5,000 fails.

It says "Did not Find Thread Parent".

I was hoping changing this line:

define('skipparentids', false); 

to

define('skipparentids', true); 

would help, but didn't.

Any suggestions or ideas?

The parent id's are for the individual posts, that config file setting is related to updating the parent ids for already imported posts that have no parent post id, opposed to a post that has no thread, which is why your's are failing.

Okay, I've installed a huge yahoogroup and all members, etc, but now I'm trying to run the cleaner.php script and I'm getting the following error:

"Not Active"


wth am I doing wrong??

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Not reading though the source and setting it up, though looks like you are getting there below :

$replacer = array( 
            "<div>"    => "", 

There are huge amounts of <div> tags showing in the posts after importing. Can I safely delete these with the replacer array or will it cause errors within the forums?

Yes, that is what the cleaner is for, all you have to do is take a database back up before running it.