Convert from Postnuke to TP

[Thox]

Hey All,

I currently have a successful site (www.themoviesplanet.com), with Postnuke as the main cms engine and PNphpBB2 as the intergrated forum (site also includes coppermine as the gallery).  The site has some 3700+ members and I was wondering how difficult it would be to convert this site from Postnuke to TP.

I realize some of the stuff would have to be converted manually, such as the downloads, articles, etc, but how would I go about converting the forum, members, coppermine gallery over to TP?  Is this possible?

Any Help appreciated.

Thox

[G6Cad]

If you jump over to the SMF forum you have all the help needed with conversion of your forum, There are some tools you use to convert your forum and bridges for SMF/coppermine etc.

So i think you are more lucky getting the info from SMF

[bloc]

As G6 mentions, you need foremost a converter from PhpBB to SMF for the forum.

But from postNuke article/downloads to TP the only way currently is manually doing it I am afraid. It might be an easy job to make a converter though..it seems the articles have text/author/date.. and categories too maybe?

[Thox]

Hi Bloc,

Yes, the news stories which feature on the front page have categories (or Topics as they are known in Postnuke), which are Developer News, Site News, Studio News, E3 News and Mod News.  I would like to convert the news stories across (not so concerned about the comments) to TP.  All the other articles I can convert across manually as there are not so many.

I experimented with taking one of the old news stories across from the postnuke site to a SMF TP site and found If I used Articles I could amend the date to the date the story was originally posted, which is great.  However, there are over 180 New Stories and copying them all across will be a bit laborious.

I do have a question about archiving though.  As I have over 180 news stories, how can I archive the older stories?  and what happens to the news stories after the fall of the Frontpage.

Any help appreciated,  I would like to the make the switch to the new SMF TP site on the 4th April as this will be the sites First Birthday and what better way to celebrate than with a new design and format.

Thanks in advance.

Thox

PS.  Any chance of getting a copy of bz7 theme?  Really like it and would like to use it as the basis of the sites new theme?  Just thought I would ask.

[bloc]

I will need to look at an example database of Nuke, with these articles and categories in it, and simply write a simple conversion script. Do you have a few values+setup for these tables by any chance?

Bz7 theme is only for this site, sorry.

[Thox]

bz7 = drat  :coolsmiley:

I will need to look at an example database of Nuke, with these articles and categories in it, and simply write a simple conversion script. Do you have a few values+setup for these tables by any chance?

What sort of values and setup are you looking for?  Do you require access to the database, this can be provided if required?

Regards

Thox

[bloc]

If you can provide that, yes. Or just show how the table looks like.

[Thox]

Thanks for all your help on this so far Bloc, much appreciated.

However, I have some more questions regarding the conversion from Postnuke.  I have posted on the SMF forum, but have had little joy with responses, so if I may post this here, I ask the community the following questions: -

1.  When setting up SMF, do I create a new MySQL Database or just add it to the existing Postnuke Database?

2.  If I create a new SMF user for setting up SMF and TP, can this be the same username I use on the site I wish to convert from?  or will this cause problems when using the converter?  I have used the username Thox on the Postnuke Site "The Movies Planet",  and have setup the SMF site in the folder forum, with the same username, Thox.  What happen when I convert the PNphpBB2 board over to SMF with these two usernames on each board?  Am I better setting up a temporary name for SMF for now?

3.  When I use the converter will it remove all the information from the postnuke site or will it remain in Postnuke, and copy all the information to the SMF TP site?

4.  I already have a large quantity of downloads available on the Postnuke Site.  Rather than upload all these again, is there a way to add these to the downloads module on the proposed TP site?

I'm sure I have more questions, but thats all I can think of for now.  I'm a little nervous about transferring the site over to SMF and TP, as I don't want to loose any data and I want to make the switch as seemless as possible.

Thanks in advance

Regards

Thox

[Thox]

Can anyone assist with the above post?  particularly question 4.

Kind Regards

Thox

[Thox]

OK, have decided to remove the smf site I had set up and reinstall it in with the smf database included within the mysql postnuke database.

Tried to convert the existing PNphpBB2 board over to SMF using the phpbb-to-smf.sql and convert.php, but got this error:

Notice: Undefined variable: dbname in /home/thox/public_html/forum/convert.php(334) : eval()'d code on line 1

Notice: Undefined variable: table_prefix in /home/thox/public_html/forum/convert.php(334) : eval()'d code on line 1

Sorry, the database connection information used in the specified installation of SMF cannot access the installation of phpBB2. This may either mean that the installation doesn't exist, or that the MySQL account used does not have permissions to access it.

The error MySQL gave was: No Database Selected

can anyone help?

Regards

Thox