Wordpress Versus PHPBB3 - It Is Not Rocket Science

Once again, without confusion, I offer a proverbial olive branch to the people at MJHD. No I am not going soft. No I am not confused because Tis_Ruthy commented (btw - Hi Ruthy, we miss you). And finally, no I am not such an asshole that I wish to watch the painful experiences over at MJHD continue.

OK, on the forum thread "Wordpress or not? VOTE" some members mentioned pulling all the information from the Wordpress forum over to the PHPBB3 forum. Great idea; and easy to implement.

On the front page of MJHD it is stated that the database is corrupt, and for someone to fix it is going to cost $300. That is not so good.

So here is the proverbial olive branch: I can repair the database, and also transfer the Wordpress information over to PHPBB3 - and as a seeker of the truth; I will do it for free.

Technical information (a little boring but necessary): The old forum of MJHD is actually a Simple Press forum; which in turn basically uses MySQL as a backbone database. PHPBB3 also uses MySQL database. In transferring one to the other it is merely telling the PHPBB3 database where to put the fields/information from the Simple Press forum (for example Simple Press may have used user_id_number and PHPBB3 may be using user_id). It is all about mapping the old database to the new database. Nothing technical really. Using phpMyAdmin it is just a case of mapping various databases and fields etc from one to the other.

As for repairing the database, for free and not paying $300, some friends over at Database Journal have already discussed this and provided step-by-step instructions to do this. Here is the link for repairing MySQL database corruption.

Once again if any of that seems like it was written in a foreign language, or is too technical for the new Admins (hereafter referred to as Silverfish and Nightmare) I offer my services free; for the sake of the MJHD members.

Peace.