SMF to PHPBB

spechackers · Post by **spechackers** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 10:47 am

i need an convertor , for changing from SMF TO PHPBB>

Help appreciated.

GoE-LCP · Post by **GoE-LCP** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:30 pm

spechackers wrote: i need an convertor , for changing from SMF TO PHPBB>

Help appreciated.

same thing here m8

Ali|FIN · Post by **Ali|FIN** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:21 pm

Hello,

This issue has been brought up many times before in past topics such as this, this, this, this, and this one. I've also heard that the SMF forum software is very similar to YaBB's foruming software thus you may want to try the YaBB Convertor(s) that've been developed in the past.

However, if after this you fail I am sure someone would be willing to develop a SMF vx.x to phpBB convertor for you and all the others whom which are in need of one. Heck, if someone is willing to assit me with the development of it I'll do it myself with all the spare time I have. Anyways, good luck and if you need further assistance please let us know.

SlapShot434 · Post by **SlapShot434** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:44 pm

I actually spent all day today attempting to modify the yabbse convertor to work with the extremely similar SMF database, but have run into several problems.

For one, the password.

SMF uses MD5-Hashing for their passwords, but they salt it. I have yet to figure out what they salt it with, and until I do, I will not be able to figure out the password change.

Also, SMF stores permissions in several different files, making it almost impossible to correctly assign AUTH's in phpbb.

If anyone is willing to look these two things up, it would certainly speed up the process of making this thing work.

Graham · Post by **Graham** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:32 pm

If necessary, you can go for the approach I've had to adopt on a few in the past - set the password to a random value and get the users to request a new one (assumes they have correct email addresses set

) and on the permission set them to a default set and get the user to change them.

I haven't got time to code anything myself, but if anyone does want me to look at code they've written for this convertor, my email address is in all the UBB convertors available in this forum.

SlapShot434 · Post by **SlapShot434** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:43 pm

I went ahead and totally removed the whole password process, just for now.

Right now, I'm having problems getting the posts to transfer correctly, but i'm working on it.

When I get to a good stopping point, i will probably ask you to look at it.

Draknek · Post by **Draknek** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:20 pm

I looked at the SMF passwords about a week ago, just to see how feasible a converter was.

This is the login code (Sources/LoginOut.php, line 175):

Code: Select all

	// Figure out the password, and load the settings.
	$user_settings = mysql_fetch_assoc($request);
	$md5_passwrd = md5_hmac($_REQUEST['passwrd'], strtolower($user_settings['memberName']));

	// Check if the account is activated
	if (empty($user_settings['is_activated']))
	{
		$context['login_error'] = $txt['activate_not_completed1'] . ' <a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=activate;sa=resend;u=' . $user_settings['ID_MEMBER'] . '">' . $txt['activate_not_completed2'] . '</a>';
		log_error($txt['activate_not_completed1'] . ' - ' . $user_settings['memberName'], false);
		return;
	}

	// Old style encryption... now's the only time to fix it.
	if ($user_settings['passwd'] == crypt($_REQUEST['passwrd'], substr($_REQUEST['passwrd'], 0, 2)) || $user_settings['passwd'] == md5($_REQUEST['passwrd']))
	{
		updateMemberData($user_settings['ID_MEMBER'], array('passwd' => '\'' . $md5_passwrd . '\''));
		$user_settings['passwd'] = $md5_passwrd;
	}
	// What about if the user has come from vBulletin or Invision?  Let's welcome them with open arms \o/.
	elseif ($user_settings['passwordSalt'] != '' && ($user_settings['passwd'] == md5(md5($_REQUEST['passwrd']) . $user_settings['passwordSalt']) || $user_settings['passwd'] == md5(md5($user_settings['passwordSalt']) . md5($_REQUEST['passwrd']))))
	{
		// Get our new encryption in!
		updateMemberData($user_settings['ID_MEMBER'], array('passwd' => '\'' . $md5_passwrd . '\'', 'passwordSalt' => '\'\''));
		$user_settings['passwd'] = $md5_passwrd;
	}
	// Bad password!  Thought you could fool the database?!
	elseif ($user_settings['passwd'] != $md5_passwrd)
	{
...

The relevant information is this function in Sources/Load.php, line 268:

Code: Select all

// MD5 Encryption used for passwords.
function md5_hmac($data, $key)
{
	$key = str_pad(strlen($key) <= 64 ? $key : pack('H*', md5($key)), 64, chr(0x00));
	return md5(($key ^ str_repeat(chr(0x5c), 64)) . pack('H*', md5(($key ^ str_repeat(chr(0x36), 64)). $data)));
}

Interestingly, the passwordSalt field seems to be left blank. Instead, the salt is their username, lowercased.

I hope this helps.

spechackers · Post by **spechackers** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:34 pm

come on guys, do it soon.

some of us are in need.

SlapShot434 · Post by **SlapShot434** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:30 am

be patient, it will be done when it is done

liquid-motion · Post by **liquid-motion** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:55 am

I'm really looking forward to the fact that there's really coming a convertor for SMF! I would love to convert to PHPBB... Any efforts made so far? Keep us posted please! Good luck. I wish I could it do it myself! Thanks in advance. You're the greatest!

SlapShot434 · Post by **SlapShot434** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:27 pm

I'm still working on it, having some trouble with the posts right now, but at least things are tranferring

spechackers · Post by **spechackers** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:02 pm

Like to see the convertor soon, Good luck my friend in convertion.

NIS-Francisco · Post by **NIS-Francisco** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 4:23 pm

Hmm,

I need the convertor too. Btw; When is 2.2 gonna be released?

Graham · Post by **Graham** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:15 am

2.2 will be released when it is finished (it should be this year)

spechackers · Post by **spechackers** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:56 pm

When it will be finished, any dates .