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Hi all :
Javareference.com recently completed a migration from phpBB to mvnForum. We created a java utility to facilitate this migration. The utility generates SQL statements from the source phpBB database. You can run these sql statements on your mvnForum database to migrate everything.

The converter supports most functionality except private messaging and statistics.

The utility is available for free download from www.javareference.com

http://www.javareference.com/downloads/viewdownload.jsp?id=00000032

To the developers of mvnForum and the community, please accept a big thank you from us at Javareference.com.

Thanks all,
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Re: phpBB to mvnForum converter available
And when you visit Javareference.com, please do join our forums over there for general java developer discussions.
Thanks much,
_anand
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Re: phpBB to mvnForum converter available
Hi,

Thanks a lot for your work on this, it will help a lot of users for the migration.

Btw, would you agree to migrate this tool to mvnForum's CVS so other users could continue to contribute on this great work ?

Thanks rose
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Re: phpBB to mvnForum converter available
Hi Minhnn :

By all means. Please go ahead and integrate this as a tool in the mvnForum CVS. If you visit www.javareference.com, you should be able to download the jar file, which also contains the sources.

The code is not documented well, since it was developed as a tool for internal use, but it should be sufficiently self-explanatory.

Also, there are some missing parts, like private messages and formatting related stuff. Most everything i know is explained in the README which is available along with the zip.

Again, im happy you appreciate it, because everyone loves your forum.
Thank you again.

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Re: phpBB to mvnForum converter available
Thanks a lot for this converter. With some little modifications I've been able to directly convert my phpbb forum to mvnforum running with hsqldb (200 users, 50000 posts).
Just be carefull with quote remplacemnt in hsqldb and if you have forums with 0 posts. In fact, only 2 hours to have a working tool smile

Thanks again
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Re: phpBB to mvnForum converter available
Congratulations redzara. We are happy you were able to convert your existing forums to mvnforum. Would you mind if we quote you on javareference.com ?

Please let us know.
All the best...
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Re: phpBB to mvnForum converter available
Would you mind if we quote you on javareference.com ?


You are free to quote me if you want dancing
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Re: phpBB to mvnForum converter available
Thanks a lot for this converter. With some little modifications I've been able to directly convert my phpbb forum to mvnforum running with hsqldb (200 users, 50000 posts).
Just be carefull with quote remplacemnt in hsqldb and if you have forums with 0 posts. In fact, only 2 hours to have a working tool smile

Thanks again

Could you give me more detail? what is your "little modifications" and what should be careful in hsqldb?

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Re: phpBB to mvnForum converter available
in PHPBBToMvnForum, you have to add class loading for hsqldb like :

try
{
Class.forName("org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver").newInstance();
}
catch (Exception E)
{
System.err.println("Unable to load hsqldb driver.");
E.printStackTrace();
}


and change

String mvnurl = "jdbc:mysql://" + mvnhost + "/" + mvndb;

with corresponding url format for your base

String mvnurl = "jdbc:hsqldb:file:D:/jetty/webapps/mvnforum/WEB-INF/mvnForumHome/hsqldb/mvnforum";


In Utils.java, public static String wrapit replace :

if(text.charAt(i) == '\'' )
strbuf.append("\\\'");
else

by

if(text.charAt(i) == '\'' )
strbuf.append("\'\'");
else


In Migrator.java, public static void migrateusers, replace :

String MemberLanguage = Utils.wrapit(RS.getString("user_lang"));
...
String MemberLastname = Utils.wrapit("");


by

// defaut code language
// if it's not set in phpbb
String MemberLanguage = Utils.wrapit("en");
...
// because mvnforum doesn't allow empty name
String MemberLastname = MemberName;



In Migrator.java, public static void migrateforums, after :

String last_post_id = RS.getString("forum_last_post_id");

add

// If you have a forum without any post
if(RS.getInt("forum_last_post_id") == 0) {
continue;
}


little more tweaks are needed if you have empty password

minhnn: I format the code
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Humm, after convertion, I've some problems with 'Rebuild Post Search Index'
Scenary :
- new db
- import from phpdb
- login admin
- rebuild Memer Search Index : OK
- rebuild Post Search Index : OK but ...
Index Post count : 2112
Database Post count : 50103 worried

But in logs :
INFO | jvm 1 | 2005/06/09 14:29:48 | 14:29:48.231 INFO [Timer-0] com.mvnforum.search.post.RebuildPostIndexTask.run(RebuildPostIndexTask.java:108) >03> Rebuilt index finished successfully! 50103 post(s) indexed.
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