He could write it off as a charity contributionquote:Originally posted by GAJ
no way we can afford his £1k day rate!
He could write it off as a charity contributionquote:Originally posted by GAJ
no way we can afford his £1k day rate!
Gaj, Access is my specialist subject I seem to remember that vBulletin can import data files (although I might be wrong). It might be possible to manipulate the data and output into a format that vBulletin can then import.quote:Originally posted by GAJ
Currently it's an Access database. It's not possible to import this directly into vBulletin, it would first have to be converted to MySQL. This in itself poses loads of problems, it's not a case of simply getting a script and clicking run, unfortunately. Full details of the problems others have had attempting similar conversions can be found on the vBulletin forum. I have a guy working with me at the moment who is a wizard at these things but he doesn't have the time (or inclination!) to spend on this gratis and there's no way we can afford his £1k day rate!
Might not work, or only partially work, but would be worth a try, like I said I'm happy to give it a go.
You could consider it my sponsorship for next year
vbulletin seems well suported:)quote:Originally posted by GAJ
Currently it's an Access database. It's not possible to import this directly into vBulletin, it would first have to be converted to MySQL. This in itself poses loads of problems, it's not a case of simply getting a script and clicking run, unfortunately. Full details of the problems others have had attempting similar conversions can be found on the vBulletin forum. I have a guy working with me at the moment who is a wizard at these things but he doesn't have the time (or inclination!) to spend on this gratis and there's no way we can afford his £1k day rate!
surely we have the expertise out there with backup support from vbulletin to make this happen
Cooper Coupe...
Gaj - found this http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=157703&highlight=importing+from+c sv
Its easy to output from Access into a CSV file, not sure if the data will need to be manipulated before though....
That's excellent news Paul. The import facility into the latest version of vBulletin uses ImpEx. The procedure is well documented on the vBulletin site, as are the problems converting from the Snitz .asp.
Feel free at having a crack at writing a convertor script and let us know how you get on.
Gaj - I'll need a copy of the structure (not the actual data though) of current database ie what tables, fields are used in Snitz etc. then I can map each table and field to the required format for vBulletin.
It will then be possible to export these as individual CSV files and then should be possible to import these into vBulletin using the CSV importer.
Can't promise this will work though :I I might be oversimplifying the process.....
You can down load Snitz from here.
It's freeware!
what ate you boy's talking aboot
Top Secret, I'll tell you in exchange for info on the new enginesquote:Originally posted by minime
what ate you boy's talking aboot
We don't know what they are talking about,and they know we don't know,but they don't know either, but because they know we don't know then nobody will ever find out they don't know:)you knowquote:Originally posted by minime
what ate you boy's talking aboot