I'm not sure if I'm the first to stumble upon this issue in phpbb3 RC1, so maybe this is a heads up...
Awhile ago, using DrakNek's ezconverter, I successfully converted ezboard material into a phpbb2 forum.
The old ezboard content looks perfect on the phpbb2 forum, even the smilies, no random code appearing in posts or anything like that.
Seeing that phpbb3 RC1 was released, I made a mirror of our phpbb2 database and tried putting our forum into the Olympus design. In this test run for phpbb3, I get all sorts of code appearing in the old ezboard content areas on our forum (substantial portion of the board).
For instance, here is a sample to compare between phpbb2 and phpbb3:
phpbb2
Hey all...overall I think the site has been improved tremendously since early 2002, when all it consisted of was three pages and a poorly constructed rules notepad file.
However...we are seeking to further improve the usefulness of the site and if anyone has any ideas, desires, or demands (grr) for a certain type of page or file...please let me know and post a message below!
One idea I had was to drastically change the Setups page...right now all that are posted are my setups. I think it would be cool to post a ton of setups made by a coalition of all the drivers. I can password the page so that only league members can gain access. It would only work if we got 10+ drivers to participate in actively submitting setups for all the tracks...I hope something like this can be worked out, let me know. thx
Edited by: lepage71 at: 1/9/03 6:45:41 pm
same post on a test phpbb3 upgrade forum
Hey all...overall I think the site has been improved tremendously since early 2002, when all it consisted of was three pages and a poorly constructed rules notepad file.<br><br>However...we are seeking to further improve the usefulness of the site and if anyone has any ideas, desires, or demands (grr) for a certain type of page or file...please let me know and post a message below! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START --><img src=
http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>One idea I had was to drastically change the Setups page...right now all that are posted are my setups. I think it would be cool to post a ton of setups made by a coalition of all the drivers. I can password the page so that only league members can gain access. It would only work if we got 10+ drivers to participate in actively submitting setups for all the tracks...I hope something like this can be worked out, let me know. thx <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=
http://pub129.ezboard.com/bnascarheatra ... epage71</A> at: 1/9/03 6:45:41 pm<br></i>
Something is clearly different between phpbb2 and phpbb3 that is making these changes...I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about this problem. Anyone with ezboard content, or perhaps converted content from other forum types, might encounter similar issues.