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Great, thanks very much for your time in answering/replying

Hi, After converting my board over from IPB everything is fine apart from a quirky problem with the old urls people have posted in their threads. They are incorect and don't display as a link i.e they start <a href=> etc When I attempt to edit the posts as admin I can preview the newly edited post o...

Thanks for the reply - Just to clarify will the above method allow me to view any posts they attempt to post?

Cheers

G

Hi, Sorry if it's obvious and I've missed the option but on my previous IPB board there was an option if you edited a user to 'Moderator Preview indefinitely' on all of a users posts. That way you could have a look at what a new user was attempting to post before actually allowing it to be posted. I...

News Update - All transfered over and everything working fine It's been an interesting learning experience!

A very big thankyou for your help and time Dicky, and the info on the txt editor ric

Excellent forum based support you lads do.

Once again thanks for everything

Cheers

G

Well it all seems to be there on phpbb3 now as well :) 2 errors did appear early on but they flashed past quickly and I did'nt have a chance to read them properly. So I take it that the phpbb3 database is now the original phpbb2 database not a new one thats been created somewhere. I've exported it a...

Sorry jumped the gun and had already found the rebuild_search hack in one of the converter folders. Well everything is now working 100% on phpbb2. I pressume I now need to install phpbb3 on my laptop and do the conversion process on that (actually thinking about it it's the only way to do it :) ) Th...

Edit : ignore me, all sorted

What is the situation with search, I see there is something in one of the folders of the converter package - when I use the search option in the forum I get no results - will it only be new posts that will be 'searchable'?

Cheers again

G

Right all the importing amd merging seems to of gone ok, I'm now onto the actual conversion process thanks to your help :) Are there any other new scripts that need to be placed anywhere to be run for the conversion or is everything I need contained and needed in the ip2phpBB folder?? As I saw menti...

I can see the 'query' option in phpmyadmin but can't grasp where to put the line you've posted.

I put it into the box 'SQL query on database' and submit query but get the error at the top 'You have to choose at least one column to display'

My apologies

Ok deleted the relevant stats line from the database, loaded it up again but now have this error MySQL said: #1054 - Unknown column 'dmg' in 'field list' ???? searched through the file and this is the context of the line: INSERT IGNORE INTO ibf_topics (tid, title, description, state, posts, starter_...

so either remove it from the backup sql file or manually create the table so the data can be inserted. I would if I could but feel my noobness and not having a clue might hinder me! The converter I downloaded ready to use is ib2phpBB_1_3b btw, is that the correct one to use once I sort this stats e...

You'll have to excuse all my noobness concerning this whole process btw :) I was under the impression I need to import the ipb tables and the old forum datadump into the phpbb database via phpmyadmin before letting the converter loose on it all. I get the error message a little while into importing ...

IPB database structure, http://dicky.askmaggymae.com/files/ibf_2_phpbb2.sql Thanks for that Dicky. So roughly now I've got the .sql tables file .sql data dump file I've created a database in phpmyadmin and imported the table file which gives me 62 tables. Then imported the database.sql but i'm now ...

It's exactly what i'm after too :D I've posted over in the phpbb2 conversion thread but it's a bit tumbleweedy over there! Quick question - the datadump .sql I have does'nt seem to have any tables in it. Does anyone have a ipb v1.3 default tables file??? Need to import it using phpmyadmin before I c...