phpBB Conversion Problems

[Matty Bwoy]

For sites when you can't afford vb, ipb has alot more features and is more stable than phpbb.

[Matty Bwoy]

So is invisionboard, and that's alot better than phpBB.
I think IB is vbulletin's main competitor, but VB3 is better than IB....

[Matty Bwoy]

I really doubt anyone will contact him from that site now, seeing as the amount of posts that say that hes a ripper....

[Matty Bwoy]

No, you won't need the if statement.
Say you want to get the gallery that is number 1.
And you'd open the page by using gallery.php?id=1
Your code would be:

mysql_query("SELECT 

...

[Matty Bwoy]

select fields from table where id='$id'
That'll only select rows from the database where the field 'id' has the value that is given to the file.

[Matty Bwoy]

It hasn't got anything set for userid, that would cause an error.

[Matty Bwoy]

Off the top of my head, you could do:

mysql_connect(db, username, password) or die ("Your own error message");

[Matty Bwoy]

If you upgrade to vb3, you will lose most of your hacks, and will have to do them again.

[Matty Bwoy]

If you have access to apache's conf file, you can do it through there, but if you don't control the server then you can't do that.

[Matty Bwoy]

Hi,
You need to go to admin/bbcode.php and scroll down to where it says

INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "convert_phpbb_bbcode_to_vbcode

and change it to

INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX

...

[Matty Bwoy]

Its ok now, I wrote a couple of scripts which find the last post in each of the threads then enter that data into the db. Then I updated the counters and it all works fine now.
Thanks anyway.

[Matty Bwoy]

The problem is, I'm just testing with a old backup from the phpbb forums, and then on thursday night, I will close them down, and get an up to date backup.

So you may have to do it twice,...

[Matty Bwoy]

I have been having quite a few problems with my vb board.
I tried to use the convertor on it, and it says everythings fine. Then I do the things it tells me to do (Rebuild search index etc) but...

[Matty Bwoy]

I'm going to convert my boards from phpBB to vB and I know there is a convertor which converts the users, threads and posts across. But I was wondering if someone could tell me exactly what it converts,...

[Matty Bwoy]

DevShed
They have a big PHP section, full of well written tutorials.