Question migrate from old FB1.05 in J1.0 to the now Kunena 1.08 in J1.5?

as i know of, automated migration scripts are available to convert (contents, users, etc.) joomla 1.0 sites to joomla 1.5 thanks to mtwMigrator.

how about for the old fireboard 1.05 forums running joomla 1.0 to the now kunena 1.08 running joomla 1.5? is this possible? is there an automated script available for this? or this is something that we have to manually do.. like copy kunena tables from your old J1.0 database to your new J1.5 database?

i would love to hear any ideas or help on this.. thanks ahead

i want that, too:)

I also need to achieve this

Going from FB to Kunena on J1.0 is quite simple and good documented, in this forum, in the documentation wiki and in the readme file within the component.

Fresh install of Kunena in J1.5 (legacy mode) is also a straight line.

To my awareness there doesn't exist a easy migration pathway from J1.0/Kunena to J1.5/Kunena.
There is a lot of topics touching this problem in this forum, but nobody have posted a "user friendly" method yet.

At the moment Kunena 1.0.8 is aimed for J1.0. It is my impression that the dev team are working on a J1.5 native version (Kunena 1.5). Hopefully somebody will release a migration utility soon.
The best way is to vote for it over at : user voice .

Or successful migration routes coud be documented in the wiki.

This thread: link may be useful.

So why doesn't anyone have a go already at writing a Kunena ETL plugin for the official migrator, should be well documented:

community.joomla.org/blogs/community/741...e-an-etl-plugin.html

docs.joomla.org/Writing_an_ETL_Plugin

You can even start with the existing FB one:

extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extensi...ensions/7416/details

Exactly! When can you get started?

The existing FB one might already work, anyone tried it yet?

I thought you were volunteering. I wouldn't volunteer "anyone" to do anything I wasn't capable of doing myself.

i just did my part, voting for this in uservoice.

hope others would do the same.

I have reciently done this with my site.

Steps I took were thus:
Convert to J1.5 first .. I used this Migrator - extensions.joomla.org/extensions/hosting...version/3895/details - to move everything except the forum. (Articles, menu's etc). I see it now supports Fireboard moving also, but I did ot test this.

Please note I used a new DB for the new J1.5 site and essentially used the migrator to move from one DB to another.

I then installed FB 1.05 on this fresh new shiny J1.5 install (ater I had tested everything was good.)

I then manually imported the relevent FB data (jos_fb_xxxxx) into this new DB using phpMyAdmin from my hosts backend. Next was to simply upgrade to Kunena and redo all of the menu links to the forum. Final step was syncing the users from the Kunena backend. Don't forget to manually copy Avatars and images also.

You can see the result at my site - www.talksport.co.nz

It wasn't perfect or easy, but it worked.

Please note you need to ensure you BACKUP !! as I wont take responsability for anyone following this crude guide.