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FluxBB to Flarum migration tool

Hardware

fluxbb_to_flarum

https://github.com/mondediefr/fluxbb_to_flarum

Migration script for Fluxbb forum to Flarum, partially based on work of :

Authors

Description

This tool exports and migrates your Fluxbb (>= v1.5.8) forum to Flarum.

Flarum is still in beta testing, therefore only some of the typical web forum features are available, and what is now working can break anytime (including this script, tailored for flarum v0.1.0-beta.6). At this moment fluxbb_to_flarum only supports migration of :

Users
User groups
User avatars
User signatures
Topics
Posts
Categories
Subcategories
Topics subscriptions
Bans
Smileys
Fluxbb http(s) links

Roadmap

Private Messages are not exported yet, since this feature is not yet supported by Flarum.
Forums permissions (forum_perms -> permissions)

Usage instructions

Readme : https://github.com/mondediefr/fluxbb_to_flarum

Example of migration process

https://paste.mondedie.fr/?c6b732605b090d59#nxGqacIdFK6hDPSTdPGsbPeW4H+T3XrZk8Jr0NeI3Zw=

example

Libraries

https://github.com/s9e/TextFormatter : (Thanks to @JoshyPHP for this wonderful library <3)
https://github.com/composer/composer : PHP dependencies manager
https://github.com/Intervention/image : PHP image handling and manipulation library
https://github.com/illuminate/support : Illuminate support components
https://github.com/cocur/slugify : String to slug converter
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer : Email sending library for PHP

About us

@tlalok and me we created this tool for a french sysadmin community called mondedie.fr (in english: my dedicated server) https://mondedie.fr/. This tool is the result of 2 weeks of work and it works pretty well with 2.5k users and 40k posts.

We are waiting the flarum beta 6 to migrate definitively to flarum. Feel free to give your feedback, improve this tool and make suggestions

EDIT 27/10/2016 : Fluxbb migrated to Flarum successfully !

Hardware

This tool is now compatible with Flarum v0.1.0-beta.6, enjoy !

franck-paul

Hi,

I just try to import a large forum (the SQL export, uncompressed is about 170Mb) and I have to set a my.cnf configuration file with the following content in order to import all, specially during URLs conversions:

[mysqld]

# network
connect_timeout = 600
wait_timeout = 86400
max_connections = 100000
max_allowed_packet = 512M
max_connect_errors = 1000

I add then a conf directory with file (my.cnf) in docker-compose.yml for mariadb:

mariadb:
…
  volumes:
    - ./docker/mysql/db:/var/lib/mysql
    - ./docker/mysql/conf:/etc/mysql/conf.d

For information, everything run Ok, after more than one hour of migration (and some fixes in source db), with more than 18.000 users and 154.000 topics.

franck-paul

I also did a PR a couple of minutes ago about a PHP 7 missing module (tokenizer).

tlalok

PR merged. What have you fixes in your DB?

franck-paul

I had to change some emails, as FluxBB allows duplicate emails which is not the case with Flarum, and I also had to change some FluxBB username as FluxBB allows diacritics — lowercase and uppercase are treated differently in FluxBB too — and some of usernames converted by the import cause duplicated. Example: "Géo", "geo" and "Geo" are 3 different valid usernames in FluxBB but they are all converted to "geo" during import.

I also had 3 topics with more than 65535 characters which I have to reduce.

tlalok

franck-paul Indeed, the limitation of 65535 characters is no longer of actuality. I need to change this.