Lussumo Vanilla import?

[DisneyJoe]

Has anyone written an importer for the Lussumo Vanilla forums yet?

Thanks!

-Joe

[Floris]

There are two tier systems, if the one you need is not included we have no script for it.

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/impex_systems

[Jerry]

If you want a importer and you have a database that you can submit a support ticket in the members area and ask for Jerry and I'll look at it.

[pablo]

I too would be interested in getting a vanilla importer
http://getvanilla.com/

(sorry I know the thread is over a year old)

[Jerry]

Do you have a source database for it ?

(Not that new systems are being written officially, so I'll do this one on my own time just to get ImpEx over 100 systems ;) )

[pablo]

I have a small database if you would like a dump of it. It has only 6 users and 20 topics or so. Let me know and I will created a support ticket and upload it there.

[Paul_M]

Did this ever happen?

[Jerry]

Nope, just checked the repository of data and I have no source data either.

[Paul_M]

Can I send you something (what's the best way?) to get this done?

Thanks.

:)

[Jerry]

Best way is to start a support ticket in the members are and ask for me.

[Paul_M]

Taken me a while, but support ticket submitted.

[simsim]

Has this been done? I'm not seeing support for Vanilla in the documentation (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex_module_dump).

[Jerry]

I'm working on it at the moment.

[simsim]

Thanks. Any estimation on when the importer for it is going to be released? I have a small Vanilla forum that I need to convert to vBulletin, however, I can do it all manually since it's a tiny database if it's going to take a while before the importer is released.

[Jerry]

By the end of the week I'd think.

[simsim]

Great. Would love to be of the first testers of it. Will wait.

Thanks again.

[Jerry]

If you have a source database contact me via PM or support ticket as I'm testing it now.

[simsim]

PM sent.

[simsim]

Any update Jerry?

[buro9]

I'm happy to supply a Vanilla database for import testing too.

I'm particularly keen on seeing how 'whispers' are imported, these are Vanilla versions of Private Messages, but they exist within existing threads as well as dedicated threads of their own.

I've discovered a number of bugs with Vanilla, such as pagination (whispers are affecting the pagination code when the whispers are within a long thread... a bit like how tachy posts affect pagination counts in vBulletin)... and am keen to be able to migrate to what I feel is a more solid code base.

Any help that you need I am happy to give.

I can provide a database, an insight into the customisability of Vanilla (the database need not be default and the tables and fields are defined in some PHP files), and I am willing to beta test the importer once it is written.

[Jerry]

Just testing it today.

[buro9]

Any word on the test?

Happy to help write the importer if need be. The more quirks I find in Vanilla the more urgent a move to vB becomes.

[Jerry]

Goes well, it will be release in the next ImpEx release which is most likely going to be out on Wednesday.

[buro9]

Fabulous. So that would be at the same time as the RC for 3.7 then? ;)

[simsim]

Great. Will be looking for it.

Thanks Jerry.

[Jerry]

Fabulous. So that would be at the same time as the RC for 3.7 then? ;)

If I answer anything to do with that Kier sets of the exploding collar :eek:

[buro9]

If I answer anything to do with that Kier sets of the exploding collar :eek:
He's got you wearing collars! :eek:

[Jerry]

He's got you wearing collars! :eek:

I've said too much :cool:

1.88 is ready, just working on getting the build sorted with a new server, might be delayed till tomorrow as I need some of the UK team.

[buro9]

I've just got around to testing this, and there's a big bit of it missing.

In Vanilla the concept of Private Messaging is to Whisper.

Whispers can either be within a discussion (so Private Messages appear inline) or a whole discussion is a whisper (in which every comment in the discussion is actually a Private Message in vBulletin).

Whispers are always 1 to 1, only 1 sender and 1 recipient.

Any entries in the Comments table that have a WhisperUserId != 0 is actually a Private Message that is inline. AuthUserId = From User, and WhisperUserId = To User.

Any entries in the Discussions table that have a WhisperUserId != 0 is actually a whole conversation that is a stream of Private Messages. Every Comment that belongs to this discussion should be a Private Message between those two users. AuthUserId = 1st user involved, WhisperUserId = 2nd user involved... whichever user of these two isn't the AuthUserId (From User) of any Comments in the Discussion is implicitly the WhisperUserId (To User) of the Private Message.



A minor bit missing: Avatars.

Vanilla doesn't provide any storage or attachment facilities by default, those are managed by extensions (Vanilla hacks/plugins). So avatars are always externally hosted images.

I've gone through my import and not one user has their avatar. I wouldn't mind except I know that my avatar definitely is within the avatar requirements, so whilst some avatars should rightly not be imported because of size some should've been imported.

It's minor, I can ask users to re-upload their avatars. Thought I should point it out though.

[buro9]

I've raised it as a bug here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=24827

[pablo]

I will be doing an import of a vanilla forum this week is there any updates on the status of this ?

[buro9]

I did a successful import based on the files provided, with some changes.

The files provided when I did didn't include whispers, but my version does.

Avatars didn't come over, and passwords were set to blank (so I force set them all to non-blank and told everyone to use the password reset to set them... about 70% of people did this).

If you want my scripts to test with I can send them over in a day or two (they're on my home computer on a VM, both of which are turned off and I'm at work).

[pablo]

Buro, I've sent you my email address via PM.