I am here, once again.
As lead dev, I have to say, I honestly have never actually run one of these forums, so actually putting it into another database is a little beyond my knowledge right. That was the part that Bob did. There were two parts to converting though. The ripping program pulls the content of each post as HTML, and I'm assuming that what you actually need saved in the phpBB is the BBcode. (I guess it's possible it stores HTML?)
But assuming you need to convert HTML to BBcode, I can do that. I have one parser that converts it to MyCode, since this forum uses MyBB. This parser is actually pretty terrible -- it's just a series of regexes. If you can find me an overview page of BBcode syntax, I can probably write an much better parser now using Parse::RecDescent. Or maybe just tweak the old terrible one a little bit.
The next part involves importing the posts into the new software. Not sure where to get started with that. This was one of those tools that was put together with duct tape and baling wire so that two software devs could use it for a one-time task.
As lead dev, I have to say, I honestly have never actually run one of these forums, so actually putting it into another database is a little beyond my knowledge right. That was the part that Bob did. There were two parts to converting though. The ripping program pulls the content of each post as HTML, and I'm assuming that what you actually need saved in the phpBB is the BBcode. (I guess it's possible it stores HTML?)
But assuming you need to convert HTML to BBcode, I can do that. I have one parser that converts it to MyCode, since this forum uses MyBB. This parser is actually pretty terrible -- it's just a series of regexes. If you can find me an overview page of BBcode syntax, I can probably write an much better parser now using Parse::RecDescent. Or maybe just tweak the old terrible one a little bit.
The next part involves importing the posts into the new software. Not sure where to get started with that. This was one of those tools that was put together with duct tape and baling wire so that two software devs could use it for a one-time task.
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