Migration from vanilla forums to flarum

code-red

i am hoping to see such functionality. This is because i have friends whom i have introduced flarum to and they really want to migrate from vanilla if it rolls out fully.

Franz

There will be a migration tool, probably part of the installer.
We haven't decided yet which other software we'll support migrating from (besides FluxBB and esoTalk), but it'll be easy to create a migrator for Vanilla.

code-red

will be looking up to that Franz

jobbatam

waiting too 😃

candyman

A phpBB migrator is planned? Or have I to upgrade my old phpBB forum (100k posts) to esoTalk and then move to Flarum?

Berlyn

This is outlined in our FAQ.

fr3em1nd

This is a very old string, but i'm wondering if this materialized? thank you!

FBI

Soon, after leaving from Beta. I hope Flarum could make Universal Migrator (for all forum)... Only post, thread, user and base access right table needed 🙂

SamuelDB

Hello, I've started to develop an import script from Vanilla forum to Flarum, see what it looks like here: https://github.com/sdebacker/vanilla_to_flarum. Contributions welcome.

Aydneri

SamuelDB I got

Uncaught Error: Class 'Cocur\Slugify\Slugify' not found...
error when I try this and
Uncaught Error: Class 'League\HTMLToMarkdown\HtmlConverter' not found in errors can you explain more how to use this? thanks

SamuelDB

Hello, sorry for my late reply. you have to run the command "composer install" first.

Bishwas-py

SamuelDB How? What is the code? composer install vanilla_to_flarum

Bishwas-py

SamuelDB Oh I got it. You mean inside vanilla_to_flarum directory, we need to run composer install

Bishwas-py

I am getting this issue.

^ PDOException {#18 ▼
  #message: "SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'bio' in 'field list'"
  #code: "42S22"
  #file: "/home/globallo/study.webmatrices.com/vanilla_to_flarum/public/function.php"
  #line: 45
  +errorInfo: array:3 [▼
    0 => "42S22"
    1 => 1054
    2 => "Unknown column 'bio' in 'field list'"
  ]
  trace: {▶}
}

Bishwas-py

Bishwas-py I removed the bio field it's working but I got another error Duplicate entry 'maokhun' for key 'users_username_unique' where maokhun is a username

luceos

Bishwas-py you can install fof/user-bio to have that bio column.

For that duplicate error, flarum demands usernames to be unique. You have to remove duplicates from your vanilla database or modify the script to work with duplicates (rename them or skip).

Bishwas-py

luceos I had done the same, but I got an another error/