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cactux
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Phorum to phpBB convertor

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Title/Job Description:
Phorum to phpBB convertor

Target audience: (e.g. professionals, hobbyists, students)
PHP developer

Reward: (e. g. money, backlinks, fame)
money (euros, bitcoins, litecoins).

Deadline:
March 2023

Preferred contact method: (e.g. PM, e-mail)
email yann_AT_cactuspro.com

Link to the board:
https://www.cactuspro.com/forum/ (currently running Phorum of course, goal is to migrate to phpBB)

Detailed description of the tasks:

Hello,

We are a non-profit society looking for a PHP developer, to code a Phorum to phpBB convertor.
Please find below the needs, so you can estimate the cost of development. Do not hesitate to ask questions for more details, and tell me if I forgot something.

End goal: have a fully functional Phorum to phpBB convertor.
The code must be open source and can be hosted in the developer’s github (or similar repo) if he wants to add it to his portfolio. The code must be proposed to phpBB community for integration in their code base (of course it will be up to them to accept it or not). I can do it if you don’t want to.

Data to migrate:
  • basic data: forums, groups, users, messages (including attachments, smileys and formatting), privileges.
  • advanced data: preferences, private messages, private message folders, subscriptions, friends.
  • data not necessary: changes in messages (previous version of edited messages).
In addition to the convertor tool, a clean way to redirect requests to pages of the old forum must be provided (301 redirect). It means that some information about the old forum must be kept to be able to redirect to the new URL. For example, https://www.example.com/forum-old/read. ... 337,871157 would answer the browser with a HTTP 301 Moved Permanently to https://www.example.com/forum-new/viewt ... p?p=754624 or similar.

After migration, Phorum tables can be safely removed. If keeping data is needed (for redirects for example), a clean and properly named table or file can be created.
Convertor must be compatible with PHP 7 (as Phorum is not compatible with PHP 8).
Convertor must work for both phpBB and phpBB-fr versions.
Convertor must work for the latest major releases of both forums (Phorum 5.2.23 and phpBB 3.3.9).

Once a cost will be agreed upon, we will launch a crowdfunding and as soon as the funds will be harvested you’ll be informed so you can start.
Communication between us can be done in English or in French. English is a must to be able to interact with phpBB developers on phpbb.com for the questions probably needed during development.

About us: we are a non profit society of plant enthusiasts! More specifically desert plants such as cacti and succulents. The forum to convert currently holds 860.000 messages (21 GB of attached files) and has more than 19.000 users. It can be browsed on our website:
Au Cactus Francophone : http://www.cactuspro.com/
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