I have a message board with near 1000 members.
It was running fine, but people wanted me to add more features.
I did this on a test board that was started from a base of phpBB 2.0.11
It is now exactly what I want.
My host told me that they would be able to transfer my users and past posts to the new board.
Yesterday they tried to do it and for some reason they are not able to do so. I see from their code that they were trying to do all old tables instead rather than just what I needed. All I need are users and profiles and posts and hopefully bans. But now they tell me that they are unable to support this. The problem is that I can’t do command line SSH myself, and I have had no luck at all with using MySQL to do anything aside from table adjustments.
So I added all the tables from the new board to the old board, and tried to then add some of the new files. This quickly killed the whole board. Would this be because I had not added them ALL before I checked it?
I have a lot of problem on the old board that needed to be fixed with updated code that is pretty much completely redone. This is why I made a whole new board. After I saw this ‘fix’ was not looking as if it would work, I tried to update the code it had. Starting with going to 2.0.11 from .10
This caused a major error with the visual confirm and I can’t use it at all. Also there is a big problem that some PM’s just disappear for no reason. By having the email notify sent with the message text we can at least get the missed PM. But from this I see that there has to be additional errors that are not going to allow me to add the additional features I have on the new board.
So a few questions.
Can anyone recommend someone who can transfer a few tables for me to my new board and actually get it working?
Or....of I need to fix this myself, is it likely they if I add ALL of the new board’s files to the old along with all the SQL database changes, that this might work as is? One thing with that though. The old board is not using a MySQL prefix on the tables for the new additions, while the new board is set as phpbb_XXXXX
If neither of these are possible, would I be able to take a base 2.0.11 install and use only those files to add to the board, and then rebuild it from there? By doing this would I be able to keep the board running and retain all current posts and users, and just built on that new install without having any errors to start off with.
This is real important to me and I would be able to pay someone if they would be able to just take my current users and add to my new board.
But thanx in advance if anyone can give me any insight into what I might be able to do here.
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