Migrating from Unix Perl Forum
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Topic: Migrating from Unix Perl Forum
Posted By: toloko
Subject: Migrating from Unix Perl Forum
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 4:34pm
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I'm trying to salvage topics and members from my board that has no
database. Topics are saved as individual text files. I'd like to
transfer these to the new board. Can I add them to a database or do I
have to create a new topic in the forum and paste the text?
I have names and e-mail addresses I could use to make a member
list. Can I make up or ignore the User_code and Salt fields so members
only have to enter their password to join my WWF board.
Any ideas on how to move messages and members from a collection of individual files into WWF?
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 7:06pm
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You'd need to post the format of the text files so people would know what fields are either missing or in addition to the fields used by wwf. e.g. I'd assume the post text files contain the post, time stamp, author, and topic but wouldn't have a clue about what other things there might be in them. ------------- 
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Posted By: toloko
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 10:12pm
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Thank you for your reply. This is the content of the message file named 1076638119.txt: user_name|The text of the message goes here|ISP server DNS number for user|e-mail@braggcreek.ca|1076638119|0||| The large number is the name of the file. I don't know what the rest of it is. Member profile content in user_name.cgi file. I only need the first three lines: user_name password e-mail@braggcreek.ca http://webaddress.com write permission City, Province ## (number of posts) Group hobbies Date joined yes signature yes company name http://www.domain.com/avatar.gif 1000 user_name|^|00000001|^|09-06-2002 yes yes yes yes |