Hi all,
I have a problem here, and I hope someone can help. I've posted this over on the UBB.threads support site, and have opened a ticket with InfoPop[1], but to no avail. Hence the reason I'm throwing this out to the wider community...
We have succesfully upgraded a couple of wwwthreads 5.3 and 5.4 forums to UBBThreads 6.5.1, and would now like to try and do this for some much older versions.
We're looking at some 3.5.1 perl installs, and there are no altertable-*.php scripts going back that far, and I know that the database structure is wildly different.
Now, we could probably try and reverse-engineer this, and come up with our own import scripts to move a 3.5.1 database to a 5.2 one, and then take the upgrade from there as per usual. However, this will be a _lot_ of work, not to mention we'll probably loose some data in the process, so I'd appreciate any pointers...
Has anyone attempted this before ? Is there somewhere where I can download old archived versions of wwwthreads so I can try using the altertable scripts provided in later versions to bring it up to 5.3 / 5.4 ? I've googled and managed to find a 4.0.0 version, but nothing before or after this. Does anyone have an archive of old versions going back this far ? The InfoPop developers are fine with me getting hold of these old versions (see referenced URL), so there's no concern over piracy...
Thanks for any input!
-Mark
[1]=http://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/41281/an/0/page/0
