Icy Phoenix

Hello a client of mine needs to change from IP to joomla's fireboard or Kunena ( something like that :( ) and because i've installed IP for him i am the responsible to reinstall everything( forum and users) in the new board...

I believe that moving to phpBB3 and using a bridge for joomla is the best way(from what i've read so far....)

What do you think? Any other suggestions?

How can i move from IP to phpBB3 ?Is there any automated procedure?

Thank you
Regards

And why don´t you modify that bridge and use Joomla-Icy ??

Is´nt that difficult.

Been thinking of doing it myself, but due to work , i´ve got no time to do it.

The best bridge to use IMHO is RokBridge for Joomla 1.5

Converting that bridge, would save you a lot of headaches moving users and posts

Thanks a lot spydie i'll give it a shot...

For one year I have done the bridge and it was working with IP 1.2.20.47 and Joomla 1.5

I used this one:
http://www.jfusion.org/index.php/do...-latest_release

Hi guys,

I'm in the same boat as OP, but I would prefer to convert to PhpBB3 - nothing against Icy Phoenix as it has helped me for quite some time.

I have read a few threads here and on h**p://***.phpbb.com about converting Icy Phoenix to PhpBB3. The Icy Phoenix database can first be converted to PhpBB2 by cleaning tables. There are two known ways to do this, manually or by running the script found here.

The issue a mate and I have found is that Icy Phoenix has since been updated and the clean_tables.php script doesn't appear to run. We get a blank screen. This may have something to do with extension.inc no longer existing. We've added it back in, modified it to remove 'hacking attempt' but the script still does not run.

The clean_tables.php script includes the following.


With my limited php knowledge I am unable to get this script running. If anyone could assist here, it would be greatly appreciated.

I agree about there's a big risk moving into the latest Icy version without a "backward-march" script. BTW, one of the things which make me bet for Icy *.0.27c was I had the clean tables script, so I could move to any board I wanted easily (previous phpbb2 move), but now it seems that Icy doesn't upgrade from phpbb3 and even can't take back to it or perhaps the old phpbb2, so I'm wondering if our community should keep sticking to it or not, and it's a pity because I really liked Icy :cry:

It is possible, we moved to the latest ip from phpbb3-smf-phpbb2-ip, I don't know details, but it is possible for sure. All users and post saved.

Ripley wrote: [View Post]

It is possible, we moved to the latest ip from phpbb3-smf-phpbb2-ip, I don't know details, but it is possible for sure. All users and post saved.

No, you didn't. You moved phpBB3 to smf earlier, and from this one to phpbb2 in order to upgrade to Icy, so the answer is "no, there is no way to upgrade phpBB3 to IP directly using the Icy installer". Anyway, it's good to know it's possible to move it through smf scripts, but the main point would be to make the same thing backwards, I mean, IP3 -> smf or any phpBB.

Thanks for the posts guys, but we are talking about converting IP > PhpBB2 > PhpBB3.

The script I referred to is a PhpBB2 database cleaning script that should clean the IP database, removing IP tables, and therefore ending up with a PhpBB2 db.

Sarakin has a point, I'd also prefer the flexibility to move between the boards that suits my community. My mate and I would not like to have to convert our db manually.
Can any developers out there provide me with further support?

I also need to convert to phpBB 3.

If you want to convert from IP to phpBB3 you can follow this steps:

CONVERSION - How To Convert Icy Phoenix To phpBB 3

But for sure you will lose some informations.

I haven't test it, but maybe this should also help you to convert BBCodes
http://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1948

TheSteffen wrote: [View Post]

If you want to convert from IP to phpBB3 you can follow this steps:

CONVERSION - How To Convert Icy Phoenix To phpBB 3

But for sure you will lose some informations.

I haven't test it, but maybe this should also help you to convert BBCodes
http://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1948

First - I guess we don't care if we lose some info like topics ratings or any else which came from MOD's, the point is to have a script which converts Icy in a commun forum board like phpBBX in order to migrate to another one in case of need.
Second - Have you tried to do what that link says? It seems it talks about Icy 0.2X -> phpBB, not 0.3X ->phpBB

Sarakin wrote: [View Post]

Second - Have you tried to do what that link says? It seems it talks about Icy 0.2X -> phpBB, not 0.3X ->phpBB

No, I have not test it, because I like IP :mricy:

Me too :wink: but a good soft like Icy should have a backward script to another common soft (as it had with 0.27 version) in order to make users sure in case any time they saw theirselves forced to move due to security reasons.

For example, recently my IP 0.27 board was attacked by some "PDF virus" and now I fear IP 0.3a might be attacked successfully too, maybe not now, but maybe so in sometime has passed. So, I'd like to be sure that if IP 0.3a doesn't make my board secure in the future, I had some script in order to move it easily to another soft.

Please help us guys.

I understand that you are all very busy, but your help would be very much appreciated.