I'm currently running a UBB. Switching is a major hassle, and I may never. They have a good product, but I do really love the threading options here. But one major roadblock: I have a large board. I sure can't afford to lose ALL of it. Is there any conversion capability?<br><br>

Unfortunately there is no conversion script available. At one time Alex Krohn had written one, but as WWWThreads changed and the UBB changed the script became unusable. I have never looked at the UBB and how it stores data so I haven't been able to write one, and if I did take the time to write one it would probably be outdated when either of the programs made any major changes.<br><br>I wish there was an easy way around this problem, but so far I haven't been able to come up with anything.<br><br>---<br>Scream<br><A HREF="http://www.screamingweb.com">http://www.screamingweb.com</A>

I could think of several ways.<br><br>For all postings: {<br><br> Read one posting on the old board<br> post it onto the new board<br>}<br><br>The second part, posting on the new board, would be an addon to your board.<br><br>The first part, if the storage method is simple (like each message is one delimited file) you write it.<br>if it is not so simple, you hack into the software that runs the board and use their routines to extract one message after another.<br><br>What is ubb anyway?<br><br>:<br><br><br>

Well, unfortunately, that is a deal killer. Whatever advantages your software might have, my members would be up in arms at the likelihood of losing all prior posts, and having to re-register. I can't afford to lose 7000 posts (which is about where I am)><br><br>Visit the E-Zine on Wine at http://marksquires.com

I had a quick look at UBB users ,and I quickly converted all my 834 users to the WWWThreads format :<br><br>UBB uses a single file with *.cgi extension to store data each field separated by '|'<br><br>so you can 'cat *.cgi >>oldusers,<br>create a 'oldusers' table on your db with 12 fields then using 'mysqlimport' you can import oldusers in the new table You created<br><br>the ubb scheme is like this more or less :<br><br>username | pwd (in clear !!!!) | email | url | unknown | occupation | location | unknown (posts ?) | membership | quote | (email address viewable ?) | signature<br><br>so you can with a little sql skill import the important fields to WWWThreads.Users table <br><br>It worked for me<br><br>maybe I'll post something about importing posts when I'll have a look at that.<br><br>Excuse my poor English<br><br>

Thanks CIC. I'm sure it can be done, but my personal skill level is real low here. But once we figure out how to do it, I'm sure someone will.<br><br>Visit the E-Zine on Wine at http://marksquires.com

Mario, UBB is a competing product http://ultimatebb.htm<br><br>Visit the E-Zine on Wine at http://marksquires.com

At this point, Scream, I would seriously be considering your fantastic product were it not for the conversion and installation issues. There are a couple of other issues, and I have concern as to how tech support will be handled, but I assume that can be worked out. I have read some of your other posts and appreciate the manner in which you have become overwhelmed with suddenly having a real company on your hands. OTOH, although I am quite good with certain types of software and html design, I know very little about scripts, CGI, MySQL, etc. I just would want someone to convert and install, for a fee of course. I.e., make it work, let me do the fun part. Do you have any recommendations as to whom I might contact inthat regard?<br><br>Visit the E-Zine on Wine at http://marksquires.com