| Subject | Re: Mailing list change? |
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| Post date | 2018-08-10T20:02:31Z |
Mark...
I found some additional information as I was curious to see if any of the free forums supported existing data into a newly created forum.
One forum host that offers free forum hosting and allows for data import can be found at the following link...
This forum supports importing forum data from the following types of forums...
PhpBB2
PhpBB3
Invision
PunBB
Based on the information I read, it appears that Forumotion and the 4 supported import forums all use MySQL.
If we can download the Yahoo Groups Firebird forum data into MongoDB than it is theoretically possible to one, export the MongoDB data into CSV files using MongoExport (see... https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/program/mongoexport/#export-in-csv-format), and two, to import the data into MySQL using MysqlImport (see... https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysqlimport.html)
This will not be as straightforward as it appears as we would have to arrange the imported MySQL data into the format that can be used by Forumotion to properly provide the data constructs to a new Firebird forum.
With the claims of support at the Forumotion web site, I am fairly sure they would be willing to guide us in modeling the data properly. We had to do this all the time when I worked on the mainframes years ago and we had projects that needed to support third-party processes.
Again, I am not suggesting that anyone rush into this but it is interesting to note that I did find one possibility.
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer