Archiving the ezBoard RTc forums

Post by **Lunever** » Fri May 02, 2003 5:02 pm

Ok, then, if there is no solution to automatize this process, I can see why you would prefer a prefix. Just do what is possible within the time you are willing to invest into that problem. To have the old posts imported here with a different ID is surely better than to have them not imported at all.

Post by **ChristopheF** » Fri May 02, 2003 8:40 pm

Thank you for your time investment, Gambit.
I think you can shut down the forums just when you want, we can live without them for a few days... (don't forget to make a backup of the current database before changing things, in case it goes bad

)
And there are still the encyclopaedia forums during that time (performance is back to normal. well at least for me...).

Post by **Lunever** » Mon May 05, 2003 9:56 am

Hey, good work, Gambit! Great! Thank you!

One minor thing: Due to the many EZ_ID's (including those of many users who have'nt been regulars anymore even at ezboard) the memberlist looks somewhat confusing. Since it is sorted by subscription date, with oldest on top (if you don't change the sorting criteria) , you'll see all those EZ-ID's first, mixed with the current ID's (even if you do change the criteria). Those users whose EZ_ID couldn't be linked to an existing ID of the new forum retained their original subscription date, while those ID's which were merged got the new subscription date of their current ID's from the new forum. So:

1) Can we make the memberlist to show the current ID's on top of the EZ_ID's ?

2) Can we give the merged ID's their original subsription date from ezboard (since this would also help sorting the memberlist)?

PicturesInTheDark · Post by **PicturesInTheDark** » Mon May 05, 2003 12:06 pm

Looks like you did a great job, Gambit, thank you very much. We'll have a much better overview with only one combined forum and hopefully more people coming here.

Is there still a problem with the profiles, since I cannot get my usual "subSilver" style or am I doing something wrong?

Regards, PitD

Post by **Gambit37** » Mon May 05, 2003 1:46 pm

To everyone: You're welcome!

@Lunever: I haven't done anything with the member IDs from ezBoard so they only have data associated with them that the ez/php converter looked at. If that data is missing or innacurate, so be it. I'm not going to go back and fiddle with that data, it's just too time consuming. As for the sort, I guess I could look at the code and change the default sort order; I'll have a look.

@Picturesinthedark: At the moment, I've set the board to override users style selection. This is because the changes I've made have only been done to the Chronicles template. Because of the way the forums work, there are a number of PHP and TPL (HTML) files that require modification. I'll have a look at adding these changes to the other templates, and will let you know of any progress

Post by **Lunever** » Mon May 05, 2003 2:02 pm

@Gambit: NP, you did a great job!
I was just asking, because due to this dating it looks in the mamberlist, as if the oldest and still active members were also the youngest, but it is certainly not important enough to invest much time of manual work into it, so just forget it.

Post by **Gambit37** » Mon May 05, 2003 2:22 pm

@PITD: I've updated the subSilver template with the same changes I've made to Chronicles, and reset the board so that users can choose their own style.

@Cowsmanaut: I've noticed that you still have the original darker template "Dungeon Master" available (the one with the blue text). However, it appears to be severely broken

and would take quite a lot of time to fix. Is it OK if I remove it from the list of available templates?

@Lunever: There's something weird going on with the memberlist, because if you sort it either ascending or descending by Joined date, the list doesn't change! I'm therefore not going to bother investigating this because if the original phpBB code is flawed, I don't want to risk messing it up further!

Post by **Lunever** » Mon May 05, 2003 2:36 pm

That's strange indeed. But nevermind, I found using "number of posts" descending quite decent to filter most inactive members. Maybe that should be the default setting (only, if that can be changed without mesing with the code, of course).

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Mon May 05, 2003 5:51 pm

Gambit, yes you can ditch it.

PicturesInTheDark · Post by **PicturesInTheDark** » Wed May 07, 2003 3:37 pm

Thank you for the update, hopefully this will postpone the time when I will finally need glasses

Regards, PitD