Question Kunena migration from Joomla 1.5.26 to Joomla 3.3.1 issues

Hello
I am busy migrating a website with Kunena from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 3

The process i use is pretty straight forward. I export the kunena db from j1.5 and import them into j3, then install kunena on j3 and it updates and upgrades the db tables great. All works fine, but for a couple of things.

Obviously, i have already exported the users successfully from j1.5 using another component.

All the posts and categories are imported successufully. However, in the login module in Kunena, when logged in with an imported user, has the following error:

Welcome, username
Last Visit Date:
Notice: Kunena: Timezone issue! in /xxx/xxx/public_html/libraries/kunena/date.php on line 107

Warning: DateTime::setTimezone() expects parameter 1 to be DateTimeZone, integer given in /xxx/xxx/public_html/libraries/joomla/date/date.php on line 398
Today

Also, when i click on a username to view their profile, i receive the following Joomla error:

0 DateTime::__construct() expects parameter 2 to be DateTimeZone, integer given

Help me Obiwan Kenobi. You're our only hope.

I am not sure that what you have done is the best way to approach the problem.

It may help - I am not promising anything - if you could post your configuration report here. Do you know how to post your configuration report? I can help you with that, if you require help.

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htaccess: Exists | PHP environment: Max execution time: 30 seconds | Max execution memory: 32M | Max file upload: 2M

Kunena menu details:

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ID	Name	Menutype	Link	Path
153	Forum	kunenamenu	view=home&defaultmenu=154	forum
154	Index	kunenamenu	view=category&layout=list	forum/index
155	Recent Topics	kunenamenu	view=topics&mode=replies	forum/recent
156	New Topic	kunenamenu	view=topic&layout=create	forum/newtopic
157	No Replies	kunenamenu	view=topics&mode=noreplies	forum/noreplies
158	My Topics	kunenamenu	view=topics&layout=user&mode=default	forum/mylatest
159	Profile	kunenamenu	view=user	forum/profile
160	Help	kunenamenu	view=misc	forum/help
161	Search	kunenamenu	view=search	forum/search
162	Forum	mainmenu	Itemid=153	kunena-2014-07-16

Joomla default template details : protostar | author: Kyle Ledbetter | version: 1.0 | creationdate: Unknown

Kunena default template details : Blue Eagle | author: Kunena Team | version: 3.0.5 | creationdate: 2014-03-09

Kunena version detailed: Kunena 3.0.5 | 2014-03-09 [ Invecchiato ]
| Kunena detailed configuration:

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Kunena config settings:
board_offline	0
enablerss	1
threads_per_page	20
messages_per_page	10
messages_per_page_search	20
showhistory	1
historylimit	10
shownew	1
disemoticons	0
template	default
showannouncement	1
avataroncat	1
catimagepath	category_images/
showchildcaticon	1
rtewidth	450
rteheight	300
enableforumjump	1
reportmsg	1
username	1
askemail	0
showemail	0
showuserstats	1
showkarma	0
useredit	1
useredittime	0
useredittimegrace	600
editmarkup	1
allowsubscriptions	1
subscriptionschecked	0
allowfavorites	1
maxsubject	50
maxsig	500
regonly	0
pubwrite	0
floodprotection	0
mailmod	0
mailadmin	0
captcha	1
mailfull	0
allowavatarupload	1
allowavatargallery	1
avatarquality	65
avatarsize	2048
imageheight	1000
imagewidth	1000
imagesize	1000
filetypes	pps,zip,txt,doc,gz,tgz,jpg,gif,bmp,pdf,wmv
filesize	3000
showranking	1
rankimages	1
userlist_rows	30
userlist_online	1
userlist_avatar	1
userlist_name	0
userlist_posts	1
userlist_karma	0
userlist_email	0
userlist_joindate	1
userlist_lastvisitdate	1
userlist_userhits	1
latestcategory	0
showstats	1
showwhoisonline	1
showgenstats	1
showpopuserstats	1
popusercount	5
showpopsubjectstats	1
popsubjectcount	5
usernamechange	0
showspoilertag	1
showvideotag	1
showebaytag	0
trimlongurls	1
trimlongurlsfront	40
trimlongurlsback	20
autoembedyoutube	1
autoembedebay	0
ebaylanguagecode	en-za
sessiontimeout	1800
highlightcode	0
rss_type	recent
rss_timelimit	month
rss_limit	100
rss_included_categories
rss_excluded_categories
rss_specification	rss2.0
rss_allow_html	1
rss_author_format	name
rss_author_in_title	1
rss_word_count	0
rss_old_titles	1
rss_cache	900
defaultpage	categories
default_sort	asc
sef	1
showimgforguest	1
showfileforguest	1
pollnboptions	5
pollallowvoteone	1
pollenabled	1
poppollscount	5
showpoppollstats	1
polltimebtvotes	00:15:00
pollnbvotesbyuser	100
pollresultsuserslist	0
maxpersotext	50
ordering_system	mesid
post_dateformat	ago
post_dateformat_hover	ago
hide_ip	1
imagetypes	jpg,jpeg,gif,png,bmp
checkmimetypes	1
imagemimetypes	image/jpeg,image/jpg,image/gif,image/png,image/bmp,image/tif
imagequality	50
thumbheight	32
thumbwidth	32
hideuserprofileinfo	put_empty
boxghostmessage	0
userdeletetmessage	0
latestcategory_in	1
topicicons	1
debug	0
catsautosubscribed	0
showbannedreason	0
version_check	1
showthankyou	1
showpopthankyoustats	1
popthankscount	5
mod_see_deleted	1
bbcode_img_secure	text
listcat_show_moderators	1
lightbox	1
show_list_time	720
show_session_type	1
show_session_starttime	0
userlist_allowed	0
userlist_count_users	2
enable_threaded_layouts	1
category_subscriptions	post
topic_subscriptions	every
pubprofile	1
thankyou_max	10
email_recipient_count	0
email_recipient_privacy	bcc
captcha_post_limit	5
keywords	0
userkeywords	0
image_upload	registered
file_upload	registered
topic_layout	flat
time_to_create_page	1
show_imgfiles_manage_profile	1
hold_newusers_posts	0
hold_guest_posts	0
attachment_limit	8
pickup_category	0
article_display	intro
send_emails	1
fallback_english	1
cache	1
cache_time	60
iptracking	1
rss_feedburner_url
autolink	1
access_component	1
statslink_allowed	1
userlist_usertype	0
sefutf8	0
changename	0
enablepdf	1
jmambot	0
annmodid	62
userlist_username	1
rules_infb	1
help_infb	1
onlineusers	1

| Kunena integration settings:

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Kunena - AlphaUserPoints Disabled
Kunena - Community Builder Disabled
Kunena - Gravatar Disabled
Kunena - JomSocial Disabled
Kunena - Joomla Enabled: access=1 login=1
Kunena - Kunena Enabled: avatar=1 profile=1
Kunena - UddeIM Disabled

| Joomla! detailed language files installed:

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Joomla! languages installed:
en-GB	English (United Kingdom)

Third-party components: None

Third-party SEF components: None

Plugins: None

Modules: None

As you probably know, I provide a professional service to migrate websites from J! 1.5. It is not an easy job - it usually takes me a day or more - so I know that it can be quite tricky.

If you would like me to finish the job that you started, you can contact me by email. However, if you are prepared to work these problems out for yourself (and you have all the time in the world to do this) I will do my best to help you.

One of the biggest problems that people encounter, after they've moved data from a J! 1.5 site to J! 3.3, is to remember to reapply all the category permissions to all the Kunena forum categories. This is because J! 1.5 did not support ACLs - ACLs were first incorporated (as standard) in J! 1.6. Did you remember to review all your forum category permissions?

Hmm.. It looks like your migration script from Joomla 1.5 brings invalid parameters with it. Kunena wouldn't be the only place which will have issues with the invalid value. Easiest way to fix the issue is to reset params field in #__users table to either empty string or '{}'. That will clear all user settings, like timezones and preferred editors, but it's small price to pay from 1 minute job.

Another possibility is to convert those integers into real timezone strings, but it's going to be very hard job with PHP script going through all the users.