Topic: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
I made the migration of a 'phpBB' database to 'PunBB', and the names in quotes (like: "Tommy wrote:") had disappeared.
How can i solve this?
Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
I've migrated several phpBB forums myself and never encountered that problem. Do you have a link so we can check it out?
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
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Well, modifications could interfere I guess, but I'm not sure. Unless someone is interested in debugging the problem, I think you're gonna have to live with this. At least it only affects the old posts. New posts will of course have the correct quote syntax.
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
Oh...
Thanks for trying to help.
Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
rapha... wrote:
I made the migration of a 'phpBB' database to 'PunBB', and the names in quotes (like: "Tommy wrote:") had disappeared.
Same problem for me. Maybe the problem is is that
phpBB => quote="Tommy"
punBB => quote=Tommy
Any suggestion or must I remove all quotes before starting the migration?
Also pools doesn't work: may it depends from the language of my forum (Italian)?
Thanks in advance.
7 2006-12-29 00:30 (edited by elbekko 2006-12-29 00:30)
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Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
It seems to me that the converter just strips out the names in quotes... but I could be wrong.
Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
Yes. The quote remains but with no author so
quote="Tommy" => quote
If I remove all the quotes from the original phpBB posts, the names will be correctly migrated?
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Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
You could always fix the converter 
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candyman wrote:
Same problem for me. Maybe the problem is is that
phpBB => quote="Tommy"
punBB => quote=Tommy
Actually, PunBB supports both.
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
11 2006-12-29 16:12 (edited by candyman 2006-12-29 16:12)
Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
I know, but the converter doesn't... 
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Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
Let's see then...
In converters/phpBB open file _config.php and find
'[quote]',Try replacing it with
'[quote=$1]',I think they kinda forgot this in the converter
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No way.
I?ve tried according to your mod but I get this strange code:
9a2d097bd0="Alessandro" wrote:
8d6cfb7db9="Maria" wrote:
I mean that the username now are OK but the code isn?t OK.
Another question: how can I change the word "wrote" in "ha scritto" according to the language (Italian) of my board?
Thanks!
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That's odd =/
And that should be in your language files
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If I remove the quotes
[quote="Alessandro"]=> [quote=Alessandro]in the original phpBB posts before migrating, should I leave you mod
'[quote]', => '[quote$1]',too?
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Can anyone help me, please?
I'd like to migrate from phpBB but, at the moment, I'll get all the quotes without author's name... 
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I'll take a look
The quotatation marks aren't the issue, the issue is the regex used and the BBCode syntax. Does phpBB allow for
[quote]tags (as in, quote tags without a name specified)?
Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
Thank you, Smartys!
In phpBB, the quotation code is like this:
[quote="candyman"]Post you want to quote[/quote]with quotation marks around the nickname.
Using the Migration tool tha author's name is ignored and the citation is anonymous.
Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
I've sent you an email, since I'm finding it hard to post the code snippet
20 2007-01-03 20:02 (edited by candyman 2007-01-03 20:19)
Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
No way.
Author's nick doesn't appear.
Only this:
wrote:
quoted post
It seems that
[quote="any username"]quoted post[/quote]becomes
[quote=]quoted post[/quote]
Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
So, I guess someone who is better with regexes than I am will need to take a look at this and tell me what I'm doing wrong
The new search is:
'#\[quote:[a-z0-9]{10}=(.*?)\]#i',And the new replace is:
'[quote=$2]',I'm sure I'm missing something completely obvious
22 2007-01-04 09:02 (edited by candyman 2007-01-04 09:03)
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Maybe the recognition/migration of the quotes characters before and after the nickname can be the problem?
The standard in phpbb is:
[quote="nickname"]quoted post[/quote]Hope this helps.
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Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
Since PunBB supports both, why even bother converting?
Just try removing those lines 
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D'oh! 
Please tell me what are the lines that, according to you, should I remove from the original _config.php file.
Then, I'll give a try.
Re: Quotes without name after use 'PunBB Migration Tool'
Bekko: IU believe the problem is that phpBB stores the BBCode something like this
[quote:a58714dfdf="Smartys"][/quote:a58714dfdf]You need to strip out the :a58714dfdf bit, which is what I was attempting to do