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Topic: Importing a DCForum install...

Hi,

I hoping someone here can help me, I'm helping a friend out who has a forum powered by DCForum and is looking to move to punBB as DCForum is no longer in active development. Does anyone know the best way to import data from DCForum into punBB?

The only forum software I can find that imports DCForum is vBulletin, and I would rather not go through a third-party to get to punBB. Any help would be appreciated.

thanks in advance,

/ Hami

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Re: Importing a DCForum install...

The best way would probably be to go through a third party I'm afraid.

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Re: Importing a DCForum install...

Thanks for the quick response, I'll give the third-party ago.
DCForum -> vBulletin -> punBB

/ Hami

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Re: Importing a DCForum install...

A few days ago i wrote a little script to migrate from phorum to punbb. It was not that much work. Migrating from DCforum should not be much more difficult ff you know a bit of sql. It took less than 300 lines of php.

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Re: Importing a DCForum install...

Thanks for the info Pedrotuga,

Unfortunately my PHP and SQL are no where near that level, I'm more a tinkerer than a coder. Do you think it would be possible to see your script, so I could try and modify it to do the job to migrate from DCForum?

Thanks in advance,

/ Hami

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Re: Importing a DCForum install...

His script is on this forum.

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