Transformer

About

Transformer is a script to convert/merge another forum's database to/with ForkBB.

Note

Supports (convert/merge):

1. ForkBB rev.42 - rev.68
2. FluxBB_by_Visman rev.51 - rev.88
3. FluxBB 1.5.0 - 1.5.11
4. PunBB 1.4.4 - 1.4.6

For FluxBB_by_Visman, FluxBB and PunBB: Before starting the conversion, copy the avatar files to the /public/img/avatars/ folder.

Requirements

• PHP 8.0+
• PHP extensions: pdo, intl, json, mbstring, fileinfo
• PHP extensions (suggests): imagick or gd (for upload avatars and other images), openssl (for send email via smtp server using SSL/TLS), curl (for OAuth)
• A database such as MySQL 5.5.3+ (an extension using the mysqlnd driver must be enabled), SQLite 3.25+, PostgreSQL 10+

Install

For Apache:

Apache must have mod_rewrite and mod_headers enabled. Also, the AllowOverride directive must be set to All.

Two options

1. Document Root != public folder:
   • Rename .dist.htaccess to .htaccess,
   • Rename index.dist.php to index.php.
2. Document Root == public folder (recommended):
   • Rename public/.dist.htaccess to public/.htaccess,
   • Rename public/index.dist.php to public/index.php;

Note

To determine which of these two options is yours, then immediately after uploading the engine to your site (before these changes), make two requests:

1. your.site/public/robots.txt
2. your.site/robots.txt

On one of the requests, you should see the content of the robots.txt file. Similar to:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /adm
Disallow: /log
Disallow: /mod
Disallow: /reg
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /userlist
Disallow: /post

On which option you see the contents of the file, choose the option for changing the file names above. P.S. If you see the contents of the file in both cases, then something went wrong or you have already changed the names of the files .dist.htaccess and index.dist.php.

For NGINX:

• Example nginx configuration.
• Note: Root must point to the public/ directory.
• Note: The index.dist.php file does not need to be renamed.

Links

• Homepage: https://forkbb.ru/
• GitHub: https://github.com/forkbb/transformer

License

This project is under MIT license. Please see the license file for details.