[Merged] 17th of April ? / So... where's the Beta?

[TwistedWeather]

I'll admit that beta is really holding up my website because i do not want phpbb2 because it is soo outdated or much else for that matter.

I wish some kind of hint or round about time frame as in the next week, couple of weeks or couple of months for beta could be given so i can make alternative plans if need be.

[VxJasonxV]

There is no beta
There is no release date
Deal with it

[Rotsblok]

If you go for the worse date then when it comes early you'll be happy.

So if you take the date of 31-12-2999 then everything sooner is great

[Wernight]

I just wish the convertion tool would be in the beta, to test it completely in the environment. Yea well... probably not there so have to wait more and more until the RC at least.

*try to get stop visiting the bug list twice a day* See you in 1 month. 8)

[Rotsblok]

I'll think we need to setup a beta forum. so that there all beta questions and date questions can be moved to

[olger901]

I just wish the convertion tool would be in the beta, to test it completely in the environment. Yea well... probably not there so have to wait more and more until the RC at least.

*try to get stop visiting the bug list twice a day* See you in 1 month. 8)

Actually it is possible to migrate your board when the beta version is out simply by using phpMyAdmin or any other tool.

1. Backup all of your data!
2. Do a new install of phpBB 3.0.0
3. Use phpMyAdmin and make a SQL dump of all users, boards, private messages and other contents you would like to migrate to the new board.
4. Open the SQL file, browse to the INSERT INTO statements and change the queries (The names of the tables must match the name of the table from the phpBB 3.0.0 database, the query data should be the same and so on...) accordingly and save the sql file.
5.Go back to phpMyAdmin and select the phpBB 3.0.0 database.
6. Press the import button, select the SQL file and press the Go Button.

This way you can import the users, forums, categories, options and other things from your phpBB 2.0.x board to your phpBB 3.0.x board. Doing so is requires some SQL knowledge, is at your own risk and there will probaly be no support offered for doing so!

[Wernight]

Actually it is possible to migrate your board when the beta version is out simply by using phpMyAdmin or any other tool.

They didn't changed the format of the tables in Olympus? I found that there are much more tables in Olympus.
If you have a translation table (old -> new) I'd like to see it. Doing those stuff are no problem, just don't want to spend hours finding the tables correlation.

[Paul]

That will not work very well, because the schema is changed.

[Highway of Life]

Actually it is possible to migrate your board when the beta version is out simply by using phpMyAdmin or any other tool.

1. Backup all of your data!
2. Do a new install of phpBB 3.0.0
3. Use phpMyAdmin and make a SQL dump of all users, boards, private messages and other contents you would like to migrate to the new board.
4. Open the SQL file, browse to the INSERT INTO statements and change the queries (The names of the tables must match the name of the table from the phpBB 3.0.0 database, the query data should be the same and so on...) accordingly and save the sql file.
5.Go back to phpMyAdmin and select the phpBB 3.0.0 database.
6. Press the import button, select the SQL file and press the Go Button.

This way you can import the users, forums, categories, options and other things from your phpBB 2.0.x board to your phpBB 3.0.x board. Doing so is requires some SQL knowledge, is at your own risk and there will probaly be no support offered for doing so!

I will migrate my phpBB 2 board over to 3, no matter how much work it will take.
But this sounds a lot easier than I had first thought.

Can a Dev team member validate this statement?
If it is indeed true, I will be the first one to try it!

[SHS`]

Can a Dev team member validate this statement?
If it is indeed true, I will be the first one to try it!

Switch phpBB2 for phpBB1, and phpBB3 for phpBB2, you'll see it is glaringly obvious his statement was rather far off the mark. Heck, that "trick" wouldn't work for migrating phpBB2.0.0 to phpBB2.0.20...