Converter?

[cityStatic]

Is there a (hopefully legal) way to convert my forums from ipbfree to mybb, phpbb, etc.?

 

[NBK*Twitch]

Is there a (hopefully legal) way to convert my forums from ipbfree to mybb, phpbb, etc.?

The SMF forum has a grabber to convert your forum to smf or phpbb.

Here is the link - http://www.simplemachines.org/community ... c=188741.0

 

[cityStatic]

How to phpbb? All i see is to SMF.

 

[Kevin X Dragon]

If you convert your forum to SMF then you could convert to phpBB.

iPBfree to SMF to phpBB.

 

[cityStatic]

How long would it take?

 

[Stephon]

Depends. Ive never tried this but it could take a couple hours to a few days. Depends how fast you can do it and so on..

ipbfree => SMF => Mybb 😀

 

[NBK*Twitch]

How to phpbb? All i see is to SMF.

When you download the file and click the ipbfree folder it will have files with memberphpbb or membersmf etc...

 

[cityStatic]

Sorry, but I need someone to do this for me.

Here's my settings.py

#!/usr/bin/python

# ---GLOBAL SETTINGS---

# Prefix of your forum tables
table_prefix='smf_'

# Make this value at least as high as the highest topic ID, if not higher. You can check by making a new topic and seeing what the showtopic= value is. Making it higher provides some protection against new topics.
NUMTOPICS=304

# Make this value at least as high as the highest forum ID, if not higher.
NUMFORUMS=52

# URL to your index.php file
# for iPBfree, this should be
# http://<boardname>.<domain>.com/index.php
URL='http://mangacenter.ipbfree.com/index.php'

# ---TOPIC AND POST SETTINGS---

# IDs of stickied [pinned] topics. The pinned status is only retrievable by a mod from within the topic data (because they can "Unpin" it, otherwise the pinning is invisible). This script attempts to locate the Unpin, but if you are not a moderator or higher you will have to set the sticky/pinned topics setting manually!
# Example: sticky=[1,2,3,5]
sticky=[72,27,212,43,42,3,232,215]

# URL to the lock/closed topic image (the image that appears instead of "Post Reply" in a closed topic)
# \\d means any digit


# ---MEMBER SETTINGS---

# A random number, used to seed the passnumber generator. You'll want to keep this a secret! CHANGE THIS.
# Keep this the same across runs, because this ensures that the same passwords
# are assigned to the same people.
RANDOMNUMBER=12345678

# Make this value at least as high as the highest member ID, if not higher. Check by noting the ID of the member with the most recent join date.
NUMUSERS=100

# MAP THE GROUPS AND POSTGROUPS ACCORDING TO YOUR FORUM SETUP
# Mapping: for groups, map the "special" groups to their group #s, and the "nonspecial" or post-based groups to 0.
groups={'Admin':1,
'Subadmin':2,
'Validating':0,
'Members':0}

# Here, define the postgroup based groups.
def postgroup(posts):
	if posts>=500: return 8 # Hero Member
	if posts>=250: return 7 # Sr. Member
	if posts>=100: return 6 # Full Member
	if posts>=50: return 5 # Jr. Member
	return 4 # Newbie

# ---PERSONAL MESSAGE SETTINGS---

# Title for the new automated password messages
msgtitle="Password for New Forums"

# What to say. Place "%s" (without quotes) at the location you want the password to be.
# Use "%%0A" (without quotes) in place of a line break.
msgbody="Your password for the new forums at http://yournewforums.com is %s. The first time you login, you may be prompted to login again because of upgraded security. This will only occur once. After logging in, please change your password!%%0A%%0A[SIZE=-1]This is an automated message.[/SIZE]"

# Don't edit below this line
def get_cookie():
	try:
		return file("cookie.txt","rt").read().strip()
	except IOError:
		import sys
		print "Error: cookie.txt not found."
		print "Please run ipbfree_get_cookie.py to generate it."
		raw_input("Press <enter> to quit.")
		sys.exit(1)

if __name__=='__main__':
	raw_input("This is not meant to be run. Please edit this file and follow the instructions. Press <enter> to close.")

 

[NBK*Twitch]

Okay I will.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

#!/usr/bin/python

# ---GLOBAL SETTINGS---

# Prefix of your forum tables
table_prefix='smf_'

# Make this value at least as high as the highest topic ID, if not higher. You can check by making a new topic and seeing what the showtopic= value is. Making it higher provides some protection against new topics.
NUMTOPICS=304

# Make this value at least as high as the highest forum ID, if not higher.
NUMFORUMS=52

# URL to your index.php file
# for iPBfree, this should be
# http://<boardname>.<domain>.com/index.php
URL='http://mangacenter.ipbfree.com/index.php'

# ---TOPIC AND POST SETTINGS---

# IDs of stickied [pinned] topics. The pinned status is only retrievable by a mod from within the topic data (because they can "Unpin" it, otherwise the pinning is invisible). This script attempts to locate the Unpin, but if you are not a moderator or higher you will have to set the sticky/pinned topics setting manually!
# Example: sticky=[1,2,3,5]
sticky=[72,27,212,43,42,3,232,215]

# URL to the lock/closed topic image (the image that appears instead of "Post Reply" in a closed topic)
# \\d means any digit


# ---MEMBER SETTINGS---

# A random number, used to seed the passnumber generator. You'll want to keep this a secret! CHANGE THIS.
# Keep this the same across runs, because this ensures that the same passwords
# are assigned to the same people.
RANDOMNUMBER=12345678

# Make this value at least as high as the highest member ID, if not higher. Check by noting the ID of the member with the most recent join date.
NUMUSERS=41

# MAP THE GROUPS AND POSTGROUPS ACCORDING TO YOUR FORUM SETUP
# Mapping: for groups, map the "special" groups to their group #s, and the "nonspecial" or post-based groups to 0.
groups={'Admin':1,
'Subadmin':2,
'Validating':0,
'Members':0}

# Here, define the postgroup based groups.
def postgroup(posts):
   if posts>=500: return 8 # Hero Member
   if posts>=250: return 7 # Sr. Member
   if posts>=100: return 6 # Full Member
   if posts>=50: return 5 # Jr. Member
   return 4 # Newbie

# ---PERSONAL MESSAGE SETTINGS---

# Title for the new automated password messages
msgtitle="Password for New Forums"

# What to say. Place "%s" (without quotes) at the location you want the password to be.
# Use "%%0A" (without quotes) in place of a line break.
msgbody="Your password for the new forums at http://yournewforums.com is %s. The first time you login, you may be prompted to login again because of upgraded security. This will only occur once. After logging in, please change your password!%%0A%%0A[SIZE=-1]This is an automated message.[/SIZE]"

# Don't edit below this line
def get_cookie():
   try:
      return file("cookie.txt","rt").read().strip()
   except IOError:
      import sys
      print "Error: cookie.txt not found."
      print "Please run ipbfree_get_cookie.py to generate it."
      raw_input("Press <enter> to quit.")
      sys.exit(1)

if __name__=='__main__':
   raw_input("This is not meant to be run. Please edit this file and follow the instructions. Press <enter> to close.")

That should work 🙂.