Comments on: Converting from vBulletin to Invision Power Board http://bobschwarz.com/converting-from-vbulletin-to-invision-power-board My Network of Sites and Services Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:01:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: AWS http://bobschwarz.com/converting-from-vbulletin-to-invision-power-board/comment-page-1#comment-32 AWS Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:15:45 +0000 http://bobschwarz.com/?p=146#comment-32 The changes I made were to fix permission problems with complex queries in mysql that are specific to mysql on Windows Servers. I didn't submit the changes because I didn't document any of them. As the problems came up I edited the code. The nice thing about the import is it logs any errors. This was helpful finding and fixing the problem. You shouldn't have any problems. Let me know if you need any help post install. There are a few things that need to be done. The changes I made were to fix permission problems with complex queries in mysql that are specific to mysql on Windows Servers. I didn’t submit the changes because I didn’t document any of them. As the problems came up I edited the code. The nice thing about the import is it logs any errors. This was helpful finding and fixing the problem.

You shouldn’t have any problems. Let me know if you need any help post install. There are a few things that need to be done.

]]> By: The Geek http://bobschwarz.com/converting-from-vbulletin-to-invision-power-board/comment-page-1#comment-31 The Geek Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:19:46 +0000 http://bobschwarz.com/?p=146#comment-31 Great write up. The user prune was pretty heavy! Q - any tweaks that you made to the converter - did you feed those back to IPB or could you make mention of those somewhere? If I make the transition, I want to make it as painless as possible :) ps - agree with you regarding the code. IPB is much cleaner. Great write up. The user prune was pretty heavy!

Q – any tweaks that you made to the converter – did you feed those back to IPB or could you make mention of those somewhere? If I make the transition, I want to make it as painless as possible :)

ps – agree with you regarding the code. IPB is much cleaner.

]]> By: AWS http://bobschwarz.com/converting-from-vbulletin-to-invision-power-board/comment-page-1#comment-25 AWS Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:44:16 +0000 http://bobschwarz.com/?p=146#comment-25 I plan to write a more detailed instruction set on how I did the conversion and a review of the converter system. I plan to write a more detailed instruction set on how I did the conversion and a review of the converter system.

]]> By: AdminAddict http://bobschwarz.com/converting-from-vbulletin-to-invision-power-board/comment-page-1#comment-24 AdminAddict Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:44:36 +0000 http://bobschwarz.com/?p=146#comment-24 Nice write-up. ;) We have some members looking for some guidance on converting from vB to IP.Board (http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/ipb/does-ipb-seem-more-appealing-vbulletin-users-4213/index2/#post55290). I just came across this blog post and shared it with the community; hopefully it will come in handy to them. :) Nice write-up. ;)

We have some members looking for some guidance on converting from vB to IP.Board (http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/ipb/does-ipb-seem-more-appealing-vbulletin-users-4213/index2/#post55290). I just came across this blog post and shared it with the community; hopefully it will come in handy to them. :)

]]> By: AWS http://bobschwarz.com/converting-from-vbulletin-to-invision-power-board/comment-page-1#comment-23 AWS Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:16:13 +0000 http://bobschwarz.com/?p=146#comment-23 Olly, I seem to remeber you from the UBB days at Scriptkeeper. It is a shame the way they are moderating the forums. Reminds of what was happening back beofre Infopop threw us to the curb. The way things are happening with vbulletin reminds of those days. Charles, thanks for the advice. The last time I did a conversion was when I went from UBB to vbulletin. I had to write my own scripts for it because vbulletin was an upstart. Things as they are today makes this sort of task very easy. You import scripts work very well. Olly, I seem to remeber you from the UBB days at Scriptkeeper. It is a shame the way they are moderating the forums. Reminds of what was happening back beofre Infopop threw us to the curb. The way things are happening with vbulletin reminds of those days.

Charles, thanks for the advice. The last time I did a conversion was when I went from UBB to vbulletin. I had to write my own scripts for it because vbulletin was an upstart. Things as they are today makes this sort of task very easy. You import scripts work very well.

]]> By: Charles Warner http://bobschwarz.com/converting-from-vbulletin-to-invision-power-board/comment-page-1#comment-22 Charles Warner Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:27:18 +0000 http://bobschwarz.com/?p=146#comment-22 We usually suggest leaving your vB (or whatever you're converting from) install in place until the conversion is done and everything looks good. Conversions can be an inexact science so sometimes you have to tweak things to your liking and convert again :) We usually suggest leaving your vB (or whatever you’re converting from) install in place until the conversion is done and everything looks good. Conversions can be an inexact science so sometimes you have to tweak things to your liking and convert again :)

]]> By: Olly http://bobschwarz.com/converting-from-vbulletin-to-invision-power-board/comment-page-1#comment-21 Olly Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:05:03 +0000 http://bobschwarz.com/?p=146#comment-21 Hi! Thank you for posting about your conversion. I also got licenses of invision board but have not converted my boards yet. I replied to you in one of the threads in vbulletin but it got deleted. I can't believe it especially since I stayed polite and did not mention any competitor. I joined vbulletin in April 2000 like you and supported/recommended them fully until now. They should be ashamed. It is sad to see this situation. To anyone living in the US: if you are a vbulletin customer and wish to complain about them, please complain at http://www.la.bbb.org/ComplaintDetail.aspx?CompanyID=100013870 Thank you. Hi! Thank you for posting about your conversion. I also got licenses of invision board but have not converted my boards yet. I replied to you in one of the threads in vbulletin but it got deleted. I can’t believe it especially since I stayed polite and did not mention any competitor.
I joined vbulletin in April 2000 like you and supported/recommended them fully until now. They should be ashamed. It is sad to see this situation.

To anyone living in the US: if you are a vbulletin customer and wish to complain about them, please complain at http://www.la.bbb.org/ComplaintDetail.aspx?CompanyID=100013870

Thank you.

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