Help/Advice needed

[221]

Hi there

Im new to this forum and own my own website. On my website we have a forum (not v bulletin) anyway long story short -

I am thinking and 95% sure I will be purchasing the v bulletin board from here so i can install on my website/ftp,

The help I need is the following -

If I do purchase a v bulletin board obviously I dont want to lose all my old members from my old forum as well as all the topics/posts there.

My host said he will give me the following -

"I can supply you with the MySQL"

He says the MySQL holds the members and posts etc If I obtain this would it be something I can incorporate into the v bulletin board software??

I.e. is there a convertor or anything that i can use MySQL into the v bulletin board software.

Any help would be appreciated as of course I would like to purchase the v bulletin board asap but obviously need to know if this will work as other wise i have to start a forum from fresh which is something I dont want to do!

[Boxy]

What forum software are you currently using?

We have an import tool, ImpEx, that can import data from over 60 different boards. See here for more information.

[221]

The forum software im using at the moment is -

SMF -> Simple Machines Forum

i want to use vb board, will the MySQL file work with vb?

[Boxy]

Here's the current status of what can be imported from SMF, http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex_smf

You use ImpEx to copy the data from your existing SMF database to the new vBulletin database.

[221]

Sorry to be a pain im using SMF 1.0.6

Any idea if this will still be able to work with vb board, it says 1.1 x on that link you gave but surely anything below 1.1 x will work?

any help still appreciated!

sorry to be pushy but i did want to purchase the vb board today before i go gfs in like 1 hour.

thanks again

[Boxy]

The importer should work fine. It's been tested on version 1.0.2 of SMF.

[221]

Thanks for all your help its been very much appreciated!

From this I will purchase the vb board,

thanks again

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[Boxy]

Glad we could help