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Re: Merging two PunBB forums

null@example.com (sleddog) — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:54:26 +0000

Well it took 2 days and about 6 hacked-up scripts, but I finally got there

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Re: Merging two PunBB forums

null@example.com (sleddog) — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:50:45 +0000

Well like I said, fortunately I don't have that problem. I have one instance of 'same username / different email'. Once username was registered over a year ago with 0 posts, so I deleted it, thereby avoiding the issue. I suppose if I had to deal with it I would: (a) rename the instance of the username that was registered secondly, (b) adjust topics and posts accordingly, and (c) notify the user, perhaps gving him/her an ooportunity to select a new username.

Any idea why I get the message, "Bad request. The link you followed is incorrect or outdated" when I click on an imported topic, even though (a) the topic id exists in the database, and (b) the posts for the topic exist in the database, with the correct topic_id? This happens for all imported topic.

Re: Merging two PunBB forums

null@example.com (Connorhd) — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:04:24 +0000

so what happens to 2 different people with the same username?

Re: Merging two PunBB forums

null@example.com (sleddog) — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 02:30:18 +0000

Connorhd wrote:

it wouldn't be easy, you could probably make a script to do it, but what happens when the same user is on both forums?

That depends on whether it's the same person, or different people using the same username. The only check wold be the email address. If the username and email both match, then I'm importing the posts and updating the user's postcount. If not... well I only have one case like that, and the duplicate user has 0 posts

I've been working on a script to do the merger, but it's tricky. Topic ids and post ids of the imported data have to be altered, amongst other things. So far I've got the users, topics and posts to import, with new (incremented) ids, and correct data entered into last_post for each topic. But something isn't right yet. When I go to a forum and click an imported topic, e.g. 'id=892', I get an error message about an outdated link. But in the database, the topics table does indeed have topic id 892 in there...

Back at it tomorrow I hope.

Re: Merging two PunBB forums

null@example.com (Mark) — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:31:17 +0000

that is to merge 2 sctions of the same forum into one section

Re: Merging two PunBB forums

null@example.com (vibien) — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:43:09 +0000

How can I activate the AP_Merge_Forums.php in my forum?

Re: Merging two PunBB forums

null@example.com (chris9902) — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:48:28 +0000

You would have to check so much stuff.

Usernames, post id's, post times etc etc.

Re: Merging two PunBB forums

null@example.com (Connorhd) — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:37:41 +0000

it wouldn't be easy, you could probably make a script to do it, but what happens when the same user is on both forums?

Re: Merging two PunBB forums

null@example.com (vibien) — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:09:37 +0000

Yah, I would like to merge two forums too, but don't know how

Merging two PunBB forums

null@example.com (sleddog) — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:01:51 +0000

Any suggestions on how I might merge two PunBB forums -- I mean two separate installations. I'd like to bring all the users, topics & posts from one installation into another installation.

Thanks.

(I should add -- both are version 1.2.6.)