for anyone else migrating from phpbb, my fork of the exporter https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import-phpbb has been updated to support phpbb 3.3 there is also a PR to merge it in @psychobunny 's repo https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-import-phpbb/pull/10

Thanks @NodeHam for providing a database dump.

@nodeham sure, feel free to reach out.
FWIW I wasn't trying to get a gig out of it, I am willing to do it pro bono.

As far the bb/html tag, seriously, if you got that far, that's very easy to fix on my end.

also, im confused, it seems as @Freelancer has made progress, but @NodeHam is not aware of that progress.

@freelancer said in Ready to give up on nodebb. nodebb-plugin-import phpbb:

Exporting and importing done and it deleted BBCodes but sadly HTML tags remain which made trouble.

which HTML tags exactly? can you share a sample post?

if the bbcode tag is not supported, I usually them here
https://github.com/akhoury/bbcode-to-markdown/blob/master/src/newBBCodeTags.js
or here https://github.com/akhoury/bbcode-to-markdown/blob/master/src/newToMarkdownOptions.js if it's a weird HTML tag that's native.

Assuming you've ran the Conversion process after you were done importing

@nodeham i can help out updating the php plugin, did you consider sending a db dump?

or @Freelancer can, it's basically going to consist updating this file
https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-import-phpbb/blob/master/index.js

to match the new phpbb 3.2 schema, shouldn't be that bad to be honest.

if you prefer going through the nodebb communication channel, just so you won't be sending your database to some stranger on the internet, feel free to email it to [email protected], link this thread, they will forward the content to me and connect us via email, we might have to get some back and forth communication done.

@nodeham said in Ready to give up on nodebb. nodebb-plugin-import phpbb:

ER_BAD_FIELD_ERROR: Unknown column 'phpbb_topics.topic_approved' in 'field list'

Hey, well, with no offense to that freelance developer but this error is clearly coming from the database, literally saying that a column does not exist.

I am 100% sure that whatever PHPBB version you are using is way past what the exporter supports, which is 6-7 years old.

Having said that, I am more than happy to help, basically what needs to be done is to upgrade the PHP exporter's support https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-import-phpbb which is possible, but we're going to need to look at the new database structure.

@NodeHam are you willing to share a PHPBB database dump with us? privately of course, and if it has sensitive information, I recommend obfuscating them, maybe just usernames, emails, names, dob, whatever else.... If you can't share the actual data, maybe an empty database so structure only, that usually works 99% of the time, but we can't fully test it without some sample data.

@mrkavatch said in Move from mybb to nodebb:

(/root/nodebb/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/

the original error has nothing to do with the import plugin, i mean look at the stacktrace.

When do you see this error?
also, what's the NodeBB version you have installed?

@Giggiux i have too, with node 0.12. but it's not stable, and there are many issues with database clients and CLS

you're gonna need Node v8 if you want the async_hooks (cls stuff)

@alff0x1f Humm.. i will take a look

send it to [email protected]

wait, sorry I just read that.

Sadly resuming the import creates duplicated threads.

really? I have never had this issue. I will take a look, can you give me a small sample of data, and link me to the mybb exporter that you're using?

@oPignonLibre there is a memory leak, i've known of this issue, but I am refactoring the importer plugin.

here's what you can do if the crash is because you ran out of memory,

1. go back to NodeBB Admin panel > Plugins > Import
2. Resume the import by clicking on "Last import was interrupted, try to resume"
3. the import will start to re-import all the posts, but it will skip the ones already imported

With 1.5M posts, you might have to do this a couple of times - I have definitely imported over 2M posts, and once 60M, it wasn't fun, but doable.

I just moved homes and I am still settling in, I will wrap up my refactor soon, and it will support NodeBB 1.4+ too, sorry the inconvenience.

I will be upping support soon to a more recent version. Sorry guys it's been a few crazy months and didn't get a chance to work on it.

@julian said in ACP internationalization?:

It probably conflicts really badly

because tabs

the numbers are kind of necessary, since you might upload many files of the same name.

@Jenkler file ticket here: https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-mailchimp/issues this is an old thread

@sanatisharif sent you the instructions email, i am going to paste it here as well for others

For all the newusers I am going to make the assumptions of their JoinDate based on their first thread or comment;

@sanatisharif since your importing to an existing nodebb database
BEFORE you test it make sure make a copy of your original NodeBB database, setup a TEST NodeBB instance, and test with that before you do on your production database

After you have that done, here are the import instructions, I am going to assume that you are using a Linux based system, or mac

# go to the NodeBB directory you have
cd /path/to/your/NodeBB

# delete any previous import plugin you have, then a install the latest one, it was ONLY tested against NodeBB 1.0.0, but if you are running 0.9.x it should also work for you.
rm -rf node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import
cd node_modules 
git pull https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import.git
cd nodebb-plugin-import
npm install

# then go back up a directory and install the disqus plugin, since it's not published to npm yet, you need to do it manually
cd ..
git pull https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import-disqus.git
cd nodebb-plugin-import-disqus
npm install

# here you need to paste your disqus XML exported dump file somewhere, let's paste it here, you dont have to do that, part
cp /path/to/my-file.xml .


# now go back up to run nodebb
cd ../..
# run NodeBB
node app

• Now you visit your nodebb, say it's http://localhost:4567

• Go to Admin Control Panel > Plugins > and activate Import plugin

• then restart your nodebb

• then back to http://localhost:4567/admin/plugins/import

• Click on "Toggle pre-import settings"

• Then in the "Exporter specific configs (if applicable)" write a valid JSON that has the full path of the XML file, for example: {"filepath":"/Users/akhoury/code/NodeBB/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import-disqus/my-file.xml"}
  See this picture: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1398375/14342545/5e5ccef2-fc68-11e5-84d0-a42e1acb0cbd.png

• Then, scroll down to the "Select an Exporter" section
  and enter the box "nodebb-plugin-import-disqus" and make sure you check the "Skip the module install" checkbox
  see this picture: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1398375/14342546/5e630de4-fc68-11e5-8e1a-ba736f528759.png

• Then Scroll down, and, for your case since you already have topics in the NodeBB database, you need to click on the green button "Don't Flush NodeBB DB, just import"
  see this picture: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1398375/14404948/0ee7a10e-fe51-11e5-80d1-2d7a58931769.png

• Then when it's done, click on "Toggle post-import tools"

• In the "Content conversion" section, select "HTML to Markdown" then click Convert

• then restart your NodeBB again and check the results by reading the topics to see if everything looks good.