Invision Power Board 2.x.x to Community Server 2007 Converter

Some time ago I decided to move my community (worked on Invision Power Board) to Community Server 2007 and create blogs for all users.

But I didn't find any converter software.

So, I wrote converter by myself.

In this project i used LINQ for Community Server MSSQL database and Mysql LINQ Provider for IPB MySQL database.

Several restrictions, such as necessity of additional memory, can be found in this program because of some limitations at the earliest stage of MySQL Linq Provider development.

Because the initial stage of the last and its limitations, I cache all data in Program, so on big database there big memory usage.

What is supported:

  • convert all users with unique emails
  • Forum structure converting
  • Full converting of threads and topics
  • Optional. Blog auto-create for each converted user.

What is missed:

  • Additional information (ICQ, Yahoo, MSN information)
  • User signatures
  • Avatars
  • Display names (if they turned on in IPB)
  • User groups and roles
  • Forum permissions
  • Attachments
  • Voting's

Another restriction for IPB: database must have "ibf_" prefix.

I strongly recommend you to convert forums on local machine.

Conversion of the ~2000 users, ~2000 topics and  ~60000 posts took on my machine about 15-20 minutes.

I have published whole solution. You can change the code and use it in any purposes (except commercial use).
I don't grant any warranties and don't respond of data loses. Do backup yourself Smile

If you have any questions - I will be happy to answer them.

Also will be great if you made some enhancements and share they. May be one day this project will be placed on codeplex.com Wink

 

That the link: IPBtoCS_0.0.0.1.zip

Published Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:03 AM by Neu Romantic

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# re: Invision Power Board 2.x.x to Community Server 2007 Converter

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:46 AM by Ali

What about writing a converter ipb2.x.x -> phpbb3 that can preserve attachments structure too. Becuase the one available does not care about attachments.

I am willing to pay a reasonable amount for this, I may be reached at sales____@____ swish-db.com (replace ____@____ with @ sign).

regards

# re: Invision Power Board 2.x.x to Community Server 2007 Converter

Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:35 AM by Mahendra Sharma

Hello

We have Community server 2008.

So my question is, how do i make your code working for CS 2008 version.

I tried with 2007 version also but it converts on user and group data, no data of posts and topics are converted. you can reply on mahendra.sharma@sharmainfoway.com

Please help.

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# re: Invision Power Board 2.x.x to Community Server 2007 Converter

Saturday, May 09, 2009 2:41 AM by mndmnd

I have community server2008. i have transfered data first in cs2007 then transffered in cs2008 but i want to transfer remaining dat mostly signature,avtars and uploaded(attachment files).

My email id is manjur.momin@gmail.com

plz reply me

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