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Vanilla exporter v1.1 has been released (with phpbb3 support)
Todd
Vanilla Staff
Hi guys. I just pushed v1.1 of the Vanilla exporter live which included phpbb3 support. You can find it here http://vanillaforums.com/porter
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So I gave up on the download side, and I tried saving the contents of that page as a .txt file directly from the browser, and copy and pasting the contents into various text editors on both windows and linux and saving it (nano and vi really didn't like this CPU hit 100% for about 20 minutes). After a lot of messing around, and manually editing the format of the text I managed to get something that vanilla2 would import. Unfortunately it's mostly gibberish. I only have a small private site with 22 registered users but the import script managed to create 3724 users most with a blank username or a username of 0, 1, etc. No discussions have been migrated, all my categories are gone, all rolls and permissions are gone.
I've been trying to get this to work for 2 days now (originally with version 1.01 of the script exact same result), and I have to say I'm starting to go a bit loopy trying to figure it out. I'm sure it's probably something simple, but I just can't figure it out. Any idea where I'm going wrong, or what I need to do?
You shouldn't be editing the file though.
You sir are a genius!
Worked perfectly first time, created a nice downloadable file for me, so I downloaded it and renamed it (it didn't like the format of named file export_vanilla_2010-07-31_165217.txt.gz so I gunzipped it and renamed it export.txt) and it worked first time.
Many many thanks, my wife will be pleased that I won't be stuck looking at the damned computer for much more of the weekend
If you want to try and get to root of the problems I was having it's very easy to reproduce, feel free to send me a PM and I can give you the details of the site (mysql passwords are very easily changed) so you can see it for yourself.