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Migrating from phpBB
awand
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Hi!
This is my first post as I'm planning om migrating a phpBB forum to Vanilla.
Just wanted to check before I go ahead with this large operation (250k posts forum). Any thing I should be careful about, aware of or known issues when migrating?
Thanks,
Andreas
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So I use the latest Porter (https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core) , php7.1 and 7.3 (I can choose), stumbled upon a problem right away, probably related to my host not supporting the old mysql database driver anymore:
So I checked my host's documentation and they state that I can connect to my database by using this:
$con=mysqli_connect("example.com.mysql", "username", "password", "database");
Anyone who can help me get past this obstacle?
(I also see others have the same issue: https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/36921/vanilla-porter-version-2-4-with-php-7-x#latest)
Thanks,
Andreas
open up vanilla2export.php
change:
$connection = @mysql_connect($this->_host, $this->_username, $this->_password);
to
$connection = @mysqli_connect($this->_host, $this->_username, $this->_password);
also
if (!function_exists('mysql_connect')) {
to
if (!function_exists('mysqli_connect')) {
basically change mysql connect to mysqli connect note I'm not a programmer so may be worth waiting for someone with a touch more knowledge than myself - tho I'm fairly certain if it was my forum at that size I would be bringing things down to a local environment with a repository involved to ensure things went smoothly.
There's an issue with how the database extension is set in Porter currently. I've detailed them in a bug ticket for our migrations team: https://github.com/vanilla/porter/issues/184
Thanks Linc!
Your reply and creation of the bug ticket is much appreciated. Hopefully the issue can be looked into soon.
Best regards,
Andreas
Just had a look at the Porter Github repo. I see the latest commit is from october 2018...
In regards to the problem I reported above, is it likely there will be a fix soon? Hope so. Got a few thousand members waiting for an update.
@Linc let me know. Cheers!
Andreas