Nitro Porter, the inter-software migration toolkit

Yuma

linc I have test nitro porter i have send error in email i try to migrate myself for test

Yuma

linc i have send error with nitro porter with my test in email i think is difference of structure ipb 3 and ipb 4

Yuma

linc i have send dumpsql

Yuma

i don't have new ? 🙂

linc

Yesterday I released Nitro Porter 3.2 which fixes & improves the CLI, as well as fixing a bug where the "PdoDB" class couldn't be found in some setups.

I also realized I wasn't getting notifications for discussions on that repo, which I've now fixed.

I currently have data for 4 pending migrations, and am awaiting data for 3 others. Going a bit slower than I'd hoped, but still moving things forward whenever I have time.

schwabing

linc what a great initiative!
We have a rather large forum, custom built, but straightforward with only very few features. 3GB of SQL, roughly 6 million posts (not threads), 700-800 concurrent users online during evening hours, 1 million monthly sessions. I would love to move it to flarum.
As I read you're pretty busy right now... Is there maybe someone you can recommend for a paid migration?
If not what would be the best approach? Learn how Nitro Porter works from the other sources and write one for our case?
https://github.com/linc/nitro-porter/blob/089091256f56778dabdc46d7b3fbe52b39320a16/src/Source/Xenforo.php

poVoq

linc Is there a guide for adding additional export targets? I think Lemmy might be really interesting for that.

Yuma

linc it's not easy for my database ipb4 i have see it's great job to convert all correctly for flarum : )

luceos

schwabing there are some partners listed here that can help with a migration: https://flarum.org/partners, in addition you can post under services to get potential contractors to respond to your request.

linc

schwabing Is there maybe someone you can recommend for a paid migration?

Yup, @luceos has you covered. I do think you could use the existing src/Source/* packages as a model and probably move a basic set of discussions, posts, users, and categories over fairly quickly if you have a PHP engineer handy. It's all the other stuff that usually gets more complicated. Unfortuantely I'm not able to assist with custom / bespoke forums, there's just too damn many even limiting it to the distributed ones. 😅

linc

poVoq There is! Happy to get feedback & questions. It's very basic right now. Hard to see what folks want to know first when you've been the only one coding on it for so long. 😁

Developer Guide for Nitro Porter

seangalla

How about from a Mighty Networks community? 🙂 If so, I'm keen. https://mensgroup.com

linc

seangalla How about from a Mighty Networks community?

I don't know much about it. Can you get a database export from them, or is it API-only?

Yuma

do you have convert ipb 4 for flarum?

luceos

Yuma looks like it: https://github.com/linc/nitro-porter/blob/main/src/Source/IpBoard4.php

linc

Yuma I added preliminary support in Feb but haven't put it in the latest release, yet. It only does the basics so far.

Yuma

linc i have the time ^^

MoshBit

@linc I tried this script today and probably did something wrong because I all I got was a blank screen.

Linode VPS, CentOS v7
nginx 1.23.3
php 8.1.7
MariaDB 10.38
Xenforo 2.2.12

to be honest, I don't know what my PDO Driver is. also I'm willing to donate my database to the tests if you need it, if so, let me know if i should fill out that form?

id love to get my xenforo community ported over to flarum!

MoshBit

So I took another stab at this, and I think where I got confused was that the db prefix field is labeled 'optional'. I didn't put anything in that field and all I got was a blank page with no log file.

I tried again today and put xf_ in the db prefix field and i still got a blank page, but now there's a log file:

[2023-04-08T21:49:20.795134+00:00] porter.INFO: export: User — 14944 rows, 01.16s (6.8mb) [] [] [2023-04-08T21:49:20.803896+00:00] porter.INFO: export: Role — 12 rows, 00.01s (5.8mb) [] [] [2023-04-08T21:49:20.966543+00:00] porter.INFO: export: UserRole — 17437 rows, 00.16s (6.3mb) [] [] [2023-04-08T21:49:21.065402+00:00] porter.INFO: export: UserMeta — 2596 rows, 00.10s (6.5mb) [] [] [2023-04-08T21:49:21.073183+00:00] porter.INFO: export: Category — 70 rows, 00.01s (5.9mb) [] [] [2023-04-08T21:49:24.130848+00:00] porter.INFO: export: Discussion — 25744 rows, 03.06s (9.1mb) [] [] [2023-04-08T21:49:28.965809+00:00] porter.INFO: inserting 'Comment': 100,000 done... [] [] [2023-04-08T21:49:33.870370+00:00] porter.INFO: inserting 'Comment': 200,000 done... [] [] [2023-04-08T21:49:34.706633+00:00] porter.INFO: export: Comment — 216461 rows, 10.58s (7.2mb) [] [] [2023-04-08T21:49:36.160500+00:00] porter.INFO: export: Media — 29331 rows, 01.45s (7mb) [] []

It doesn't say 'success' or anything, but the data appears to be in the db now when I check it with phpmyadmin (in the tables with the PORT_ prefix).

What I don't quite get yet though is what the next step is? This doesn't seem to port the data over to the flaum tables. The user guide says:

Currently, it only uses the default table prefix for targets but you can specify the source prefix.

I'm not sure what the default table prefix for flarum is. All I've been able to find so far is a thread here saying you should avoid using them, so my installation doesn't have db prefixes.

I am using the web installer since I didn't have any luck at all with the CLI. I also have the folder nitro-porter as a sub-directory in my root xenforo install.

linc

MoshBit It doesn't say 'success' or anything, but the data appears to be in the db now when I check it with phpmyadmin (in the tables with the PORT_ prefix).

Ah, that's because it's crashing. It's supposed to do private messages after attachments ("Media"). Sounds like there's a glitch in the Xenforo converter.

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