Add vBcms widget "vbcms_widget_recentposts_page" to non vBulletin page

[Mike1969]

The vBulletin 4.2.1 CMS module is great, but my site has a main page that is not vBulletin cms and I need to add the Recent Posts widget content to a div on the websites main (non-vBulletin) page. This...

[Mike1969]

One of the neat things about ikonboard was it's "newsfeed" feature. It was ridiculously simple but amazingly effective. Now that I've shut down the iB (after 12 years), is there a way to get...

[Mike1969]

I'd suggest running a MySQL query on the db and do the whole thing throughout the whole database, in one or two query steps. It will work. You'll be replacing a certain set of chars with a new set of...

[Mike1969]

I enabled MySQLi and used the default config of utf-8
I changed the language charset to utf-8 and the Â* entities are now just *.
So thats progress. Any other ideas?

Now if...

[Mike1969]

Old db is UTF-8, but ive since "set it" to Latin1, (it appears the same on the old forums, so maybe it has no effect), the new db is Latin1 and thats what the new vbb sql db is running as....

[Mike1969]

The postfix tool worked great for the &#chars. Thank you very much. Much faster and more thorough than running my individual SQL queries.

Now the only thing left is I have some sort of...

[Mike1969]

I figured it out (come on guys, im not a sql administrator in any way, but this was easy... id have thought someone could have posted this alot quicker than it took me to figure it all out... but i digress...)...

[Mike1969]

Thanks for the tip, snakes. Unfortunately, I have the website on a hosted server and I dont have access to the global MySQL configs. There must be a way to run a SQL script that would open/update/save...

[Mike1969]

After successfully importing my ikB 3.12a db into vBB 4, Ive found the user posts do not display non-alpha chars correctly.
Example: the imported forums posts display "& #33;" instead...

[Mike1969]

Seems to be in the db as well
ex: "you & #39;ve" is found with a quick glance at one db table content.
Ive found words such as "I & #39;m" and "welcome &...

[Mike1969]

Ok, the problems are getting smaller and smaller, and thats good.

Something i just noticed while checking the newly imported forum content; this Import (its all test work at this point) seems...

[Mike1969]

Bingo!
Thanks so much. Seems the ImpEx could not have worked better for converting a large ikonboard 3.12a forum!

[Mike1969]

No obvious extra spaces, but just to be sure, I re-extracxted the source file and very carefully edited with TextPad, preserving all formatting. Whatever was wrong with that file, it works now... (Thanks)...

[Mike1969]

Hello all,

Attempting to run ImpEx on vbb4.x ...
Just after my customer number is accepted, at the next screen, I am getting the following ImpEx error:


But there...