Finished with the Discusware 4.0 to SMF (simplemachines) converter. It does everything except for the password conversions. I haven't completed the documentation yet but it will convert large Discusware boards with no problems. It will convert all topics, subtopics, posts, usernames and post counts. A default SMF admin will need to be created and updated manually but that is a simple task using phpMyAdmin. Formatting of some post will need to be done manually if the post contained special formatting it will be removed. All the output will be comma delimited files that can be directly imported to your SMF database using phpMyAdmin.
Here is the converter and documentation:
Discus 4.10 to SMF Converter (https://randemsystems.com/scripts/downloadit.php?filename=DiscusConverterSMF.zip)
Discusware 4.10 to SMF Converter Documentation (https://randemsystems.com/scripts/downloadit.php?filename=Discusware4toSMFConversion.pdf)
Modifications: Version 1.0.1
Update to put users into member groups according to member posts.
Original download post updated.
Modifications: Version 1.0.2
Update to maintain formatting of messages and announcements.
Update to put transfer Discus member groups and place members into Discusware member groups
Original download post updated.
Modifications: Version 1.0.3
Correct internal links to other pages on Discus board to proper linking on SMF.
Attachments links corrected when sort order was changed on conversion.
Original download post updated.
Modifications: Version 1.0.4
Created Notify file for upload to SMF for default admin to be notified on posts to all Boards.
Original download post updated.
Modifications: Version 1.0.5
Created Discusware message folder that contains all files that will redirect your traffic to the new SMF board. Just replace the original Discusware folder with this one and all traffic from old site will go to the new site.
Original download post updated.
New Version: 2.0We are currently up to version 2.0 in the Discus to SMF converted.
- Handles attachments
- Internal link conversions (file & URL)
- Inline images
- Large nested boards
- Boards using non English language character sets
- More Detailed Run & Error Logs
- Output files can be split into multiple files with smaller sizes for ease of import into mySQL to prevent timeouts
https://randemsystems.com/discus.html
Latest Version is 2.1.16 on 3/10/2016
Added foreign character conversion capabilities. Default file is in the docs folder and named ISO-8859-1.txt. You can use this as a template for other languages or just add to it.
Latest Version is 2.2.1 on 3/18/2016
Add broken line in users.txt file support
Changed Users.txt text file special character substitution technique to speed up the process