phpBB2.0.22 to vB assistance required

[ewelin]

Hello,

I'm currently working on migrating a heavily customized phpBB2.0.22 forum over to vB 3.7. I used the impex importer and things worked fine, but I'm hoping to improve it. I have to bits of data from phpBB that i'd like imported into vB. The first being custom profile fields, which we can touch on later. The second being subforums.

I have a subforum MOD on my phpBB forum which added a "forum_parent" field to the phpbb_forums table. I'm hoping to be able to use this information in the import so that I do not have to manually resort all of the forums in vB. Looking at file 000.php line 646 it looks like all fields of the phpbb_forums table is avaible (yes i'm running mysql). I then found that in file 006.php around line 170 is where the forums are imported into vb. I'm just unsure how to provide this value so that it can give the imported forums the propper parent ids.

Thanks in advance for any and all support.

[ewelin]

Sorry, title should have been assistance requested instead of assistance required

[Jerry]

ImpEx (as you likely have found out) only imports from a default source board, you can either move the forums to a normal structure, though if you want to hire someone to do that, this is the place for paid work and requests :

www.vbulletin.org

[ewelin]

Well all of the forums get imported correctly, I'm just looking to improve the import process so that the parent-child relationship is kept in tack. Right now when the import completed I get all of my forums in the upper level. I would like it appear just as I does on the phpBB forum with the everything properly nested.

[Jerry]

That is supported from a default phpBB, as you have said, yours isn't a default one.

[ewelin]

I understand this, but i assume impex supports subforums in other forum scripts, so when they are imported the parent-child relationship is in tact. Am I wrong on this assumption? Do all forums scripts imported into vB end up having only upper level forums?

[Jerry]

I understand this, but i assume impex supports subforums in other forum scripts, so when they are imported the parent-child relationship is in tact. Am I wrong on this assumption? Do all forums scripts imported into vB end up having only upper level forums?

You are wrong in assuming that ImpEx will import hacks and modifications from all source boards, yes.

ImpEx imports the forums as it can where the default hierarchy is available.

[ewelin]

What about other forum scripts.... Other forum scripts, say phpBB3 have hierarchy by default, can impex import the forums from scripts with hierarchy status in tact?

I understand it won't import hacks and mods, but i'm hoping to adjust the impex script to allow for these mods. I've already updated the user profile section to include custom profile fields I added in phpBB and those import correctly. I'm just looking for guidance on how to adjust the impex script so that I can import forums and keep the hierarchy.