Question Transfer Forums from MYPHPNUKE to KUNENA

Hi

I am not sure if this has been done before but I have an old MYPHPNUKE site and I need to transfer across users and all forum posts to the new Joomla site. I have found how to move across user accounts but not forum posts so far. Has anyone got any experience of how to move forum posts from MYPHPNUKE to KUNENA?

Thanks

I searched the forum for myPHPNuke and I have not seen a question asked before about that product/service. Looking at the website for myPHPNuke it seems that active development on that product ceased in 2004 and nothing has occurred since.

These one-off conversions (especially when we're discussing a technology that has not kept pace with modern web application development) are somewhat outside the general purpose of this website but arrangements could be made to cater for such special circumstances. The choices are, basically, for the owner of the data to undertake this work or for that person to pay someone else to do the work for them. Do either of these options appeal to you?

Hi

Yes it is an old template system and hence why I want to change to Joomla and Kunena.

I dont mind having a go at this. I can get an excel spreadsheet of all the forum posts in the old website which will have all the fields. I think there is a forumtopics table and a forumposts table. I am guessing that I need to change these into the correct format for Kunena forums. Do they also have topics and posts tables. What are the required fields and extra ones that I could transfer the original spreadsheet into? Also how would I upload this spreadsheet into the Kunena tables? I am guessing Kunena uses the User-IDs and login details from core Joomla as I will also have to transfer user accounts from my old site and ensure id numbers are correct inthe new system before doing the forum transfer.

ANy help with this appreciated.

Regards
Chris

Converting data to Kunena can be done, but there are some details that you should know if you try direct database import. In this case I wish we had 2.0 out as it provides easier way by using our classes to do part of the work for you.

Usually conversion is done by PHP scripts that take categories/topics/posts from the old tables and converts them to the new format.

Yes, you need to move also users to Joomla. Easiest way is probably by starting from an empty page and use the id's from the old system. But moving users into Joomla is not that easy: you need to assign them to user groups, too. And what about paswords? They may or may not keep working, depending what hashing algorithm was used and how the password was encoded..

Thanks for the advice. Ill add some users then have a look in the databas eto see what has been added. Then I can get the user export into the right format and import direct to the tables concerned. The password field is going to be the problem Ill need to look into that.

I can do the same with the forums put on a few posts and find out what fields and tables are populated then import in to the tables the posts from the old site.

It should work in theory!

Yes, in theory. Usually the theory is just a bit simpler than the reality.

In both Joomla and Kunena you need to fill more than just one table -- but you can try to create user in Joomla and look at what happens when you do it. Same is true on Kunena.