MyBB

I managed to build a set of PHP scripts fully migrate an old-fashion WBB1 Lite to MyBB.
This is my contribution to all early forum adoptors to take the chance for a rebirth

It is not a kind of Merge System. It's a complete migration into MyBB from scratch.

Migrate Woltlab Burning Board Lite (WBB Lite) v1.0.2 to MyBB 1.8.x

Description
These tools will convert and migrate a Woltlab Burning Board (WBB) Lite v1.0.2 pl3 into MyBB v1.8.

Objects of migration
The following objects will be covered by the migration and transfered to MyBB:

• Forums, subforums, categories (incl. thread and post count + type and parentlist correction)
  
• Threads
  
• Thread prefixes
  
• Posts (incl. smilies + signature options and edits)
  
• Polls, poll options and votes
  
• Users (incl. password conversion, unique hash, login key, birthday conversion, counters and activity)
  
• User avatars
  
• Buddies and users ignored
  
• User profile fields
  
• User titles (ranks)
  
• Announcements
  
• Events
  
• Forum subscriptions
  
• Thread subscriptions
  
• Icons (incl. path corrections)
  
• Smilies (incl. path corrections)
  
• Private messages and custom folders
  

Pre-requisites:
MyBB v1.8 needs to be installed and working with an administrator account - source and destination schemas must be located in the same database server. It is recommended to use the latest MyBB version (https://mybb.com/download/).

Chose a different table prefix for the new MyBB install.

Migration process:
Follow the order:

1. Make your custom changes to the config file: migrate_globals.php
   Set up your database connection as well as table prefixes, Administrator ID and the number of splitted inserts
   
2. Copy all files to any location of your webspace (e.g. subfoler of your MyBB installation: ./mybb/*_migrate_*.php)
   
3. Run each PHP file for a granular migration in the specified numbered order
   IMPORTANT: Due to data dependencies, it is mandatory to run the scripts in the specified numbered order: 01_*, 02_*, 03_* etc
   
4. Copy necessary image files into place, e.g. ./imges/smilies/*, ./images/icons/* and ./uploads/avatars/*
   
5. Make all neccessary board settings in Admin-CP
   
6. Check and ensure users and group and permissions
   
7. Run a manual refresh on all counters in Cache Manager
   
8. Recreate custom BB/MyCodes
   
9. (optional) Set up URL redirections with files attached (redirect_url/*) to keep all internet links alive. Either apply the .htaccess rules or upload both files 'board.php' and 'thread.php'. If you are using different directories, make changes to the pathes properly. Both files act as HTTP header redirects from the old URL to new MyBB URL.
   

Note:
These scripts are designed to run from a terminal console (CLI) with plain text output only.
You can run the scripts from the browser of course (plain and not HTTP compliant). Consider the risk of HTTP timeouts depending on the size of your database/tables.
Some tables with potential for a heavy data load will be imported using a splitted data volume. The number of rows can be manually defined in the config file; default rows: 100.
This migration tools will not touch any files in the filesystem. It performs database reads, conversions and imports only.

Using PHP CLI:
Establish a connection to your webserver and open a terminal/shell session with administrator privileges.
Navigate to the scripts folder and run each PHP scripts in the specified numbered order, like this:
root@server:/web/htdocs/mybb/migration/> php 00_migrate_source_stats.php

Tables to be migrated, merged or converted
Source table -> Destination table
avatars -> users
boards -> forums
folders -> users
groups -> groups
icons -> icons
options -> settings
polloptions -> polls
polls -> polls
posts -> posts
privatemessages -> privatemessages
profilefields -> profilefields
ranks -> usertitles
smilies -> smilies
subscribeboards -> forumsubscriptions
subscribethreads -> threadsubscriptions
threads -> threads
threads -> threadprefixes
userfields -> userfields
users -> users
votes -> polls

The download package of the migration tools contains the following files:
00_migrate_source_stats.php
01_migrate_forums.php
02_migrate_threads.php
03_migrate_threadprefixes.php
04_migrate_posts.php
05_migrate_polls.php
06_migrate_announcements.php
07_migrate_events.php
11_migrate_icons.php
12_migrate_smilies.php
13_migrate_subscription_forums.php
14_migrate_subscription_threads.php
15_migrate_users.php
16_migrate_user_titles.php
17_migrate_profilefields.php
18_migrate_users_avatars.php
20_migrate_users_private.php
migrate_globals.php
README_migrate_wbb1_to_mybb.md

Download
MyBB Projects > Migration Woltlab Burning Board (WBB) Lite v1.0.2 to MyBB

In a world of mind-f*cking (a)social media, this contribution of mine is a call to keep legacy communities alive with a guide to step into a more modern and reliable MyBB system.

Every comment is highly appreciated as well as every successful commitment.
Don't hesitate to showcase your forum, that has been awaked from retirement.

[ExiTuS]

Great work, [ExiTuS]!

This is certainly a migration tool that will find its users, as there are still a lot of Wbb1Lite boards floating around the web who now have the option to upgrade to a more recent software.

Thanks Lu - and all those who submitted a reputation plus.

Hopefully my contribution will help to keep another forum alive or to return some legacies from retirement (-:

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