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From SMF to Vanilla 2.1 - how to clean up BBC code?

MarcusMaximusMarcusMaximus New
edited January 2015 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

Hi there. I managed to migrate from SMF to Vanilla. Everything went smooth and works right. However SMF had a different BBC so a lot of code is broken.

For example SMF BBC code that Vanilla can't recognize: [quote user link=topic=4802.msg75195#msg75195 date=1368315281]

Now my question is, if anyone has done this before, how to clean up that code through sql? It's easy to sql update just clean bbc as [qoute] but the problem is the parameters inside as user or link, the mumbo-jumbo part as it can be seen above.

Anyone knows how to clean this up in best manner?

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  • x00x00 MVP
    edited January 2015

    The fastest way to clean it is to use regular expressions, on a sql dump file. Doing against table columns is also possible but issue might be in multiple places.

    BBC is not a standard, so naturally you are going to get some differences.

    grep is your friend.

  • AnonymooseAnonymoose ✭✭
    edited January 2015

    Using perl:

  • AnonymooseAnonymoose ✭✭
    edited January 2015

    Using php:

  • x00x00 MVP

    that just a parser, it doesn’t necessarily parse this sort of bb code.

    grep is your friend.

  • MarcusMaximusMarcusMaximus New
    edited January 2015

    @Anonymoose thanks for input, however i need to manipulate the data in sql that is formatted as: [quote user link=topic=4802.msg75195#msg75195 date=1368315281]

    As @x00 said i would need to use regular expressions which i'm kind of aware i should but i was just hoping someone already did the same thing and has already written reg code replacement for smf because it will take me a while to write it.

  • x00x00 MVP
    edited January 2015

    regular expression

    \[quote\ ([^ ]+) link=[^\]]+\]

    replace

    [quote="\1"]

    or

    [quote="$1"]

    myslq doesn’t have an internal regex replace. by you can create a function or do text replace on a dump.

    grep is your friend.

  • AnonymooseAnonymoose ✭✭
    edited January 2015

    @x00 said:
    that just a parser, it doesn’t necessarily parse this sort of bb code.

    Those perl modules converts to html as well.

  • x00x00 MVP

    yes but it doesn’t help him, there isn't a bbcode standard, he is not looking for a generic bbcode parser.

    grep is your friend.

  • AnonymooseAnonymoose ✭✭
    edited January 2015

    Here is a php implementation of a converter with a SMF code to html function.
    All the regexes for SMF specific bbcode are at the end.

    https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2380/SMF.3.php

  • LincLinc Admin

    I strongly recommend against using regex parsing except as a last resport. Try this addon:

    http://vanillaforums.org/addon/nbbc-plugin

  • MarcusMaximusMarcusMaximus New
    edited January 2015

    First thank you all for your input. @Linc unfortunately the plugin did work but also messed other things up in a sense that it actually did recognize and ignore dynamic generated smf quote bbc however it failed to recognize / br tags on example so it made it look quite a mess so i guess that isn't the option for now.

    @Anonymoose thanks for that code i bookmarked it as a possible solution, i guess i'll have to get that sorted out on that way maybe thought guess it's going to be complicated a bit.

    @x00 yes if it was generic i would just run few sql queries and problem would be sorted with ease.

    I have over 4k topics and 100k posts so i need to sort this thing out. Hope Google won't penalize my site for broken bbc.

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