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

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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.