Vbulletin 4.2.5 to phpBB poll error.

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R4NGER
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Vbulletin 4.2.5 to phpBB poll error.

Post by R4NGER »

Hi,
Trying to convert Vbulletin 4.2.5 to the latest phpBB. (450K+ Posts, 30K+ Members)
Starting with the instructions from this post viewtopic.php?t=2646517 Starting at version 3.0.11

I Am Getting the bellow error. I've Tried searching for a fix, and all I could find was the same error with VB 3.X and the fix suggested there isn't relevant?

Cheers.

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General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]
Out of range value for column 'poll_option_total' at row 3 [1264]
SQL
INSERT INTO phpbb_poll_options (poll_option_id, topic_id, poll_option_text, poll_option_total) VALUES (1, 19356, 'Yes', 0), (2, 19356, 'Yes', 0), (3, 19356, 'Hell No', 2147483647)
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Re: Vbulletin 4.2.5 to phpBB poll error.

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You have 0 votes for the first two options both labeled "Yes" and 2.1 billion votes for "Hell no". Unless you have somehow managed to get 1/4 of the worlds population to all agree on the same thing it would appear there is something wrong with your results. :D

First check what is actually displaying on VB to make sure the conversion isn't screwing something up, the topic ID is 19356.

phpBB only allows for 8 digits or 99,999,999 votes for that column. Just delete the poll if it's corrupt.
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Re: Vbulletin 4.2.5 to phpBB poll error.

Post by R4NGER »

I have looked at the polls in vbulletin and all have realistic voting numbers.

Could it be because my database was created in the vbulletin 2.x days and is latin1_swedish_ci instead of utf8mb3 ?

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Re: Vbulletin 4.2.5 to phpBB poll error.

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There error would indicate the poll is attached to topic with ID of 19356, did you check that one?
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Re: Vbulletin 4.2.5 to phpBB poll error.

Post by R4NGER »

Hi yes, I stripped that poll from the thread, it now errors on the next poll.

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