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After using phpBB3 for almost 10 years, I was wondering if there weren't any better forum-systems. I tried some and MyBB turned out to be very friendly and usefull :-)

I've already made a testforum and started to rebuild my forum. But I have some questions before I will merge 'for real'.

1. Missing posts after merging
It is an old database I used for testing, so I'm not worried about the differences in threads and members, but the number of posts is not even half. I already run the re-count twice in the adminpanel. Question: I'll run another test. Is there anything I should know when I export the database to get all the posts?

2. In phpBB3, I had this 'open links in new window' mod, but now the links look like this after merging:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/tippexperience" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/user/tippexperience</a><!-- m -->
Can I prevent that by uninstalling the mod on phpBB3?

3. When I built the same Mybb-code in Mybb (like [youtube ] etc.) (as in phpBB3) will the youtube-movies and smileys be visible again?

I hope you can help me with this questions. If I haven't searched hard enough, please let me know where to find answers. Thanx very much!

Just found out what caused the first problem (differences in post counting). Most users from phpBB3 were not in the 'registered' group. They were in the 'old group' from phpBB3. I removed that group and after a recount, I now have all posts back :-)
(2014-01-02, 10:59 AM)Beert Wrote: [ -> ]After using phpBB3 for almost 10 years, I was wondering if there weren't any better forum-systems. I tried some and MyBB turned out to be very friendly and usefull :-)

I've already made a testforum and started to rebuild my forum. But I have some questions before I will merge 'for real'.

2. In phpBB3, I had this 'open links in new window' mod, but now the links look like this after merging:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/tippexperience" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/user/tippexperience</a><!-- m -->
Can I prevent that by uninstalling the mod on phpBB3?

3. When I built the same Mybb-code in Mybb (like [youtube ] etc.) (as in phpBB3) will the youtube-movies and smileys be visible again?

I hope you can help me with this questions. If I haven't searched hard enough, please let me know where to find answers. Thanx very much!

Just found out what caused the first problem (differences in post counting). Most users from phpBB3 were not in the 'registered' group. They were in the 'old group' from phpBB3. I removed that group and after a recount, I now have all posts back :-)

2. Unfortunately I don't think so. The mod put that extra code on all links in the posts (and possibly elsewhere). Mybb will just pull it out as text. It may be possible (I am no DBA) to write a query that runs through all the posts (and signatures or wherever else it converted it) and convert the links back to standard bbcode links.

3. Yes, so long as the code tags match up properly to the ones in phpbb3, they should properly show.