importing pmachine to vB?

[smashtheqube]

I've got a small news site running off pmachine right now and I want to import all of the articles to a forum and the registered users to vBulletin. Anyone got an importer or is this going to be a huge pain to accomplish?

- smash

[Jerry]

It would all depend on how the information is stored in the first place, then the organization of it in relation to users.

If pmachine uses a forum structure then it may be possible, though if it is just a content engine then it would be harder.

[smashtheqube]

pmachine *does* have a forum built in, but I don't use it because, quite-frankly, it's a piece of crap and that's why I want to move everything to vB. Everything is stored in MySQL, so the information is definitely available... just not sure what form it's in.

[Jerry]

Well you would have to understand how you would want the data organised into a forum structure to be able to import it.

[smashtheqube]

Basically I'd just want to dump all of the news into a forum as threads, and create an account for each of our registered users. What would you suggest as a solution?

[Jerry]

Well I would need to see the database schema, though I would guess that the user import would be very simple.

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