ive gone to bbtonuke.sourceforge.net and noone has answered my post in the last week so hopefully you guys can at least give me some insight

ive completed the installation of the phpBB2 port and it works fine. but, i currently have phpBB2 forums elsewhere. so when i saw the phpBB2 importer, my eyes lit up.

i immediately downloaded and attempted to run it, only to get errors. every error involved some sort of missing table on either my phpBB2 or nuke, which i knew couldnt be right.

i went into the database and created tables where neccessary to duplicate the original one (i.e. phpbb had a forum_id row within a table, so i added it into the same table on nuke with the same details)

i then ran the script, but not in the correct order (i didnt think that mattered, i just ran each script as i edited them). every import ran perfectly fine....until i ran importsearch.php . all it did was give me a 500 internal server error, which im not completely sure on what that means (as in, what i have to change in order to fix it) i uploaded it in ASCII just as it said, and CHMODed it to 755, as it also said. still the same thing.

so guys, if you can give me any input at all, id be grateful. thanks for your time.

P.S. - if you need the actual errors im getting, word for word, ill rerun the scripts and post them here

oooh..bummer.

Unfortunately, I have never used the importer scripts. I am surprised however, thaty no one over at Toms' helped you out..Whata bunch of...he he

Anyway. I'll take a look around and see what info I can find. Hopefully someone else can shed mroe light on this subject.

mikem

I've got the same problem,

It isn't that the tables are missing there is a spelling error, for example the import script would stop running, not give any errors. I checked the tables and found that categories was spelt catagories in one table. That was enough to halt the script.

If that is the case, try sifting through the script and see if you can locate the spelling error there to make it match? Just a theory.

mikem

I think the actual spelling error is in the nuke.sql, I'm still working on converting the forum over, so as soon as I find the problems I'll post them.

[edit] The fix for PHP-Nuke 6 has an error in the sql/nuke.sql file. On lines 228, 231, and 240 the word categories is spelled catagories. I don't know if it is the same in the original file because I installed the fix prior to installing Nuke 6. The spelling error causes a problem in the tables.

I have reported the problem to PHP-Nuke

[edit] The problem is within the CGI script itself. If you download this file and overwrite the exsisting CGI script it runs beautifully. You have to place the importsearch.php into modules/forum and point the browser to that file once the CGI script has run.

I got this file off of bbtonuke, but I don't believe it has been placed in the download section yet.

The spelling "error" is actually with Nuke itself - the table is actually called [prefix]_catagories.

I think the problem may be the way you ran the scripts. I'm pretty sure just installing the BBtoNuke port should change the tables any way they need to be, so you should not have had to do any manual editing of the db.

Also, the scripts are supposed to be run in order, so that they will import data correctly. Particularly, I believe if there are any duplicate entries, the importers will just ignore that name an not import it. Perhaps this caused some things to be missed?

You should also note that the importer does NOT import any group or permissions data at all. You will have to recreate your groups, go back through each forum and reset its permissions, and add each user back into the group. Or, you could make your own importer.

- H8

i noticed that spelling error from the start, when i was first digging through the actual scripts to find possible errors. so i know that is not the problem.

new news! - ive imported everything successfully.....except that the users ID's are all messed up and now it shows person A posting a message that was really posted by person G (examples)

i know there is a way to edit this, but what is the easiest?