[Teresa]

Freddie just updated my vB3 with my old EZBoard posts. Worked GREAT! Yea.

Now I'd like to be able to convert the old GUEST userid's to registered members (including my own) as the new come over and register on the site.

I think I've found two vB tables: POSTS and THREADS that contain the userid and the user name.

I manually changed one post to test it, and changing the userid from zero to the correct userid number works perfectly.

So, I just need a simple script to search for users of a certain name and change the associated userid's to the appropriate number.

ALSO, I need to rerun some query to properly update the number of posts for that user.

Anybody??

[Titus]

Sorry to bump this, but I too would like this hack. Our board is planning on moving off of ezBoard very soon, and I really, really do not want to import to vb2, and then upgrade to 3.

If someone could update this hack to vB3, I would be incredibly grateful.

Thanks!

[Titus]

Pretty Please?

*blinks bambi-eyes*

[dstruct2k]

Actually, that code looks like it would work with vb3 as well... At least, the part where it links new registrants to old accounts.

I'll still look for antiquated functions and fix if needed, but I think it's good.

[dstruct2k]

Alright, it was just missing TABLE_PREFIX's but I added them and cleaned up the code.

In register.php find:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

After add:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

[Titus]

Awesome, thanks!

[Berethorn]

Is this a proven working script, then? And if I someone registers with their username before the old posts move from ezboard, will those old posts not get linked?

[Titus]

It worked great for me. I deleted all the user accounts that had been registered prior to our ezboard being moved over, so I can't say whether or not this would work with an existing user.

Hmm.. If you have a lot of users registered already, and they want their old posts back, I would say you would (short of writing a merge hack, which I recall seeing for vb2 somewhere) change the existing user name (Like: Bob2), then have the person register their old name (Bob), and then merge the two together.

Lots of trouble to go through though.

[lazserus]

Has anyone figured how to implement these hacks after the board has been converted by vB? I've been with vB for over a year and no hack I've tried links usernames. For instance, my username here is the same on my board, but all the old EzBoard posts (under the exact same name) show me as a guest. I see how hacking the register.php would link NEW users to a guest name, but I need to link currently registered members over. The vB2 script did this, but it doesn't work for vB3.

I'm not a coder, so I can't write a script for it. I'm also not about to make 600 of my members register again and do merging. That's just too much.

[feldon23]

This works on vB3.0.7?

[Alex Apple]

Originally Posted by feldon23

This works on vB3.0.7?

I'm in the same boat. I'm about to convert an ezboard over to vBulletin but this user question is going to be key.

The only way I think this might be possible is use the ezboard-->phpBB converter available here, which I've tested and which seems to work quite well. It's basically a spider, but which creates dummy accounts. It gives all the dummy usernames the same dummy password and email, but it's obviously changeable (bit of a security risk though). I'm currently planning to do the ezb-->phpBB import, and then use Impex to import the phpBB database. It's a bit long-winded, but I can't see much other of a way round.

[feldon23]

Originally Posted by Alex Apple

I'm in the same boat. I'm about to convert an ezboard over to vBulletin but this user question is going to be key.

The only way I think this might be possible is use the ezboard-->phpBB converter available here, which I've tested and which seems to work quite well. It's basically a spider, but which creates dummy accounts. It gives all the dummy usernames the same dummy password and email, but it's obviously changeable (bit of a security risk though). I'm currently planning to do the ezb-->phpBB import, and then use Impex to import the phpBB database. It's a bit long-winded, but I can't see much other of a way round.

I tried to rewrite the EZBoard user importer posted here:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=31443

to work with vBulletin 3 but I have failed. I am now having to restore a forum database because of it.

The problem is that one of the users I imported has an apostrophe in their name.


EDIT: Please see the updated version of this script later down the page that fixes various bugs and cleans up the rest of the code.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Change:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

to:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Do that everywhere the username is used in a query.

[feldon23]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Change:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

to:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Do that everywhere the username is used in a query.

Should I go ahead and do addslashes(htmlspecialchars($newusername)) for every occurence of $newusername to be thorough?

Also wrestling with getting some kind of CSS to load.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Only addslashes, never said anything about htmlspecialchars.