nodebb-plugin-import-punbb2
v2.0.0
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a PUNBB forum exporter to NodeBB
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nodebb-plugin-import-punbb2
inpired from http://www.workinprogress.ca/punbb-to-nodebb and forked from https://github.com/patricksebastien/nodebb-plugin-import-punbb to be compatible with nodebb-plugin-import
a PUNBB forum exporter
based on nodebb-plugin-import-ubb
What is this?
It's just an exporter of PUNBB, which provides an API nodebb-plugin-import can understand
Why is it even a NodeBB plugin?
it doesn't really need to be, nor that you can use it within NodeBB it self, but, having this as a plugin have few benefits:
- a nodebb- namespace, since you can't really use it for anything else
- it can easily
require
NodeBB useful tools
What does it export?
read carefully:
####Users:
_username
YES._alternativeUsername
YES. using 'realname', which nodebb-plugin-import will try to use if the username validation fails_password
NO. PUNBB uses MD5, NodeBB uses base64 I think, so can't do, but if you use nodebb-plugin-import it will generate random passwords and hand them to you so can email them._level
(administrator and moderator) NO, but doable check the structure of PUNBB_joindate
YES, using 'registered'_website
YES. using 'url' if URL looks valid, it is exported, but it's not checked if 404s_picture
NO._reputation
NO._profileviews
NO._location
YES. migrated as is, clear text_signature
YES. migrated as is (HTML -- read the Markdown note below)_banned
NO.
####Categories:
_name
YES_description
YES
####Topics:
_cid
(or its PUNBB category aka Forum id) YES (but if its parent Category is skipped, this topic gets skipped)_uid
(or its PUNBB user id) YES (but if its user is skipped, this topic gets skipped)_title
YES_content
(or the 'parent-post` content of this topic) YES (HTML - read the Markdown Note below)_timestamp
YES_pinned
NO_viewcount
YES
####Posts:
_pid
(or its PUNBB post id)_tid
(or its PUNBB parent topic id) YES (but if its parent topic is skipped, this post gets skipped)_uid
(or its PUNBB user id) YES (but if its user is skipped, this post is skipped)_content
YES (HTML - read the Markdown Note below)_timestamp
YES
Versions tested on:
- PUNBB > 1.3.2
Markdown note
read nodebb-plugin-import#markdown-note
It's an exporter, why does it have 'import' in its title
To keep the namespacing accurate, this exporter is designed to export data for nodebb-plugin-import only, also for a 1 time use, so why do you care.