I still would like to see if there is anyway to get the old boards imported into the new software. I might be able to commit some programmers to this assist in writing something to automate this if it would help. Daniel https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,344#msg-344 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:42:59 +0000 Phorum 5.2.23 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,19936#msg-19936 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,19936#msg-19936 tliet Feature Requests Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:03:50 +0000 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,8479#msg-8479 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,8479#msg-8479 tomierna Feature Requests Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:15:09 +0000 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,8475#msg-8475 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,8475#msg-8475
Let me see about opening it up again.]]> tomierna Feature Requests Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:20:48 +0000 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,8471#msg-8471 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,8471#msg-8471
Daniel]]> dharlow Feature Requests Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:47:51 +0000 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,702#msg-702 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,702#msg-702 tomierna Feature Requests Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:09:44 +0000 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,683#msg-683 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,683#msg-683
Daniel]]> dharlow Feature Requests Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:00:02 +0000 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,622#msg-622 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,622#msg-622
It's open now. Try again?]]> tomierna Feature Requests Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:58:50 +0000 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,621#msg-621 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,621#msg-621
What gives Tom, is NNTP turned off again in WebX?]]> tliet Feature Requests Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:47:25 +0000 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,597#msg-597 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,597#msg-597
I can give you access to the database if you like - just PM me if that would be helpful.

Naturally, for testing purposes, I'd like to clone the db and forum so we can try the import as many times as we need to.

Phorum.com has a bunch of developer resources, and there have been some discussions about migrating from other board software that may be helpful.

The main thing that concerns me is that I believe that while posts are sorted by date, some of the code I've seen leads me to believe they use the sequential nature of message IDs to do some of the heavy lifting. We might have to do a "reverse import" where we start with a clean DB and load the old Spork data, and then load the new spork data on top of it...]]> tomierna Feature Requests Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:35:59 +0000 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,583#msg-583 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,583#msg-583
What data would we need to import from the old boards to the new ones, obviously things like message body, date, user. Have you identified any other fields?

I have found some software that will pull a groups from a NNTP server into an SQL database but need to know more about what we need to import into phorum.

Daniel]]> dharlow Feature Requests Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:49:16 +0000 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,469#msg-469 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,469#msg-469
I'm investigating ways of doing this now.

There are three approaches the way I see it:
1) Reverse-engineer the WebX export file and write scripts to parse it and insert the data into the Phorum tables.
2) Create WebX pages with WebX Template language in them to output delimited format for each forum/discussion, then write scripts to parse these files and insert the data into the Phorum tables.
3) Use WebX's NNTP output to input the messages into a database, and then use SQL to insert into the Phorum tables directly.

I think #3 would be easiest - probably using one of the existing PHP newsreaders, but instead of displaying, shoving the data into a MySQL table or two.

Toward this direction, I'm currently looking at http://mynewsgroups.sourceforge.net/ to see if it's db backend is sane enough to be a starting point.

If you have an NNTP reader (like Unison) you can point it at spork.macedition.com and use your spork username/password combo. You'll see the whole of Spork as a newsgroup.]]> tomierna Feature Requests Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:44:55 +0000 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,344#msg-344 https://www.macedition.com/forums/read.php?14,344,344#msg-344
Daniel]]> dharlow Feature Requests Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:14:19 +0000