• From: Winchester immigrant frm Wales
  • Registered: 2007-04-10
  • Posts: 11

Topic: Converting from Matt Wright's WWWboard to PUNBB

The members association that I belong to want to move from Matt Wright's WWWboard to PUNBB.
So all the WWboard messages need to be converted and moved to PUNBB.
I have searched the web to see if a conversion program exists but not found any success so far.
So I may have to write a conversion program myself .... unless of course there is a forum member who has already done this.

Thanks in advanced for any advice.

Mike

  • From: -8 GMT
  • Registered: 2004-05-04
  • Posts: 1,396

Re: Converting from Matt Wright's WWWboard to PUNBB

can it be converted to something else first then PunBB? say to SMF, PHPBB, VB, etc?

~James
FluxBB - Less is more
  • From: Winchester immigrant frm Wales
  • Registered: 2007-04-10
  • Posts: 11

Re: Converting from Matt Wright's WWWboard to PUNBB

Each message is a HTML file and can be pulled out of the WWWboard messages folder.
In principle I believe I could write a program to
- read the data in each message,
- create a CSV file with each row containing the message content
- build a tbl_dump.php from the CSV file with CREATE TABLE followed by an INSERT INTO for each message content.
I could then use phpMyAdmin to create a table of messages.

It would be nice if a conversion program already exists.

  • Jansson
  • Former PunBB Developer
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  • From: Sweden
  • Registered: 2003-01-06
  • Posts: 856

Re: Converting from Matt Wright's WWWboard to PUNBB

I've never heard of the software so I don't think there's any tool to convert directly from WWWboard to PunBB.

  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
  • Posts: 2,653

Re: Converting from Matt Wright's WWWboard to PUNBB

I doubt it exists, but as you said: writing the converter should be fairly easy.