phpBB import woes (keeping HTML and Guest users)

[koreanwalker]

Hello, I'm currently doing a move from phpBB2 to vB3.6 but I'm running into a couple problems.

First, is it possible to have impex not parse out html. The old forum required heavily on the use of html and having all the <img> tags kinda stripped out hurts.

Second, and more importantly, the old forum allowed for guesting posting. WHen I import the board, all guest posts (regardless of what their names where), get their author changed to annymous (which becomes a registered user). I absolutely need to maintain the names and guest status of all those authors. Anyone know how?

[Steve Machol]

1. No sorry, I don't think there is any way to do this. If there is, Jerry will correct me.

2. I am not aware of the guest posts names being changed like this but if it is happening then that's by design. Changing this would require modifying the Impex code.

[koreanwalker]

Supposedly it was fixed.
In an old thread,
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=201318&highlight=phpbb+Anonymous
another user mentioned his problem with this and jerry proposed some new code to be used to fix it. That was from like four years ago, and I checked the current ImpEx code base and that code already exists, so mabbe I'm just doing something wrong. But I cant seem to figure it out. During one of my practice imports, I had it working, but now I cant seem to recreate what I did (blasted me for now writing down step by step what I did through that one half successful middle run of test).

[Jerry]

Try importing the users, then deleting the anon user then importing the posts.

To stop HTML parsing you'll have to edit the code.

Lines 148 and 157 of impex/systems/phpBB2/009.php are :


$try->set_value('nonmandatory', 'pagetext', $this->html_2_bb($this->phpbb_html($post['post_text'],$truncated_smilies)));


edit them to be :


$try->set_value('nonmandatory', 'pagetext', $post['post_text'],$truncated_smilies);