How do I migrate a forum from phpBB 3.0.9 to nodeBB 1.14.2?
I've found some plugins but I'm pretty sure the version differences will cause major headaches :
(importer wrong phpBB and nodeBB verions) : https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import (migration exporter ? ) : https://github.com/elelel/nodebb-plugin-import-phpbb (exporter closest version match but not quite : pbpBB 3.1 ) : https://github.com/belst/nodebb-plugin-import-phpbb
(post migration, convert to markdown ) : https://github.com/elelel/phpbb3bbcode2markdown4nodebb
Also I'm not quite sure of the procedure?
Is it remote connect to the phpBB server stop the forum and install the exporter plugin then start the forum and pick up the entire forum as one database file, then stop new nodeBB forum install plugin then start the new forum and import the file?
it's unclear from what's given.
I also have some perhaps unusual requirements :
I'm not interested in migrating accounts, in fact I specifically do not want to migrate accounts. the migration exists only as comfort for those who want to be able to look up the old archived threads (btw I will mark them all as read-only after migration) but effectively we are starting from scratch with new accounts.
So I'm not interested in migrating the accounts and I'm wondering if that's an issue? do posts necessarily need to be created with an account or is creating posts made by an unattributed user name possible? (if nodeBB attributes posts from the old forum archive to a new forum joinee that's perfectly fine by me, not so if nodeBB refuses that a new joinee use that name under pretext that it's already under use. New users and content must take priority)
will nodeBB allow this or will it require a account named "archivebot" for example to be "responsible", the "author" of all these posts. I'd prefer if I could at least preserve the author names buit if I can't that's an ok sacrifice.
Also will nodeBB allow the original dates for the posts? or will all of them be of the date of the migration?
TLDR: I don't know how to migrate from phpBB 3.0.9 to nodeBB 1.14.2 specifically there doesn't seem to be an upgrade path for those specific version numbers.
I'm trying to create a user via php to be recognized by nodebb authentication form. I do this via predis, so I can talk to redis via php.
This is the relevant part of the code that creates a user in redisdb for nodebb in php: http://pastebin.com/GZWFvuWc
But sadly, when I tried to login with such created account via php it didn't work and said "User does not exists".
I checked all 'legit' userdata with my userdata created by php and I can't detect any flaws
This is what I told php to create in redis, it's all verified and there:
populate 'user:#' with 22 key's where # is uid
populate 'email:uid' with user email and uid
populate 'group:registered-users:members' with uid
populate 'users:joindate' with 0 and uid
populate 'users:joindate' with 0 and uid
populate 'users:postcount' with 0 and uid
populate 'reputation' with 0 and uid
populate 'username:uid' with username and uid
populate 'userslug:uid' with userslug and uid
What am I missing :C??? I checked redis and the data is all their, but nodebb says the user does not exists
EDIT: I checked the users tab in admin and saw that the username is there that was created from php. After I press the save button on the profile edit page of that profile, that account can then login! how strange. I'm going to do more digging until someone knows what i'm missing here.
EDIT 2: I forgot slugifying userslug:uid in redis. Finally fix it
@julian said in I have a query regarding the GPLv3 license of NodeBB and commercializing my final product:
Eh? What's cockroachDB, can it survive a nuclear blast?
Thanks for the recomendations, we'll consider them
I think that that's the reference, yes. It's a NoSQL database that is PostgreSQL API compatible. It's open source and free. It's definitely not as fast as PostgreSQL, but it has a great web GUI and is a "drop in" for PostgreSQL but with different behaviour characteristics. So PostgreSQL will be way better for normal NodeBB deployments, but if someone wants a geographically diversified server farm, CockroachDB will do that using NoSQL mechanisms behind the scenes. it's pretty cool.
It's definitely possible, as the theming for NodeBB is quite flexible. Earlier this year, I started working on a blog-like theme, based off of some designs by Randy M. Daniel: http://www.randydaniel.me/nodebb-theme
I didn't quite get it to the point of publishing it, so if you're interested in picking up where I left off, feel free!
https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-theme-viridian
