[Beta 1 -> 3, Beta 2 ->4] phpBB3 Beta to Beta upgrade script

[Handyman]

Classification: Upgrade
phpBB Part: Script

MOD Name: phpBB3 Beta 1 to Beta 3 upgrade script and phpBB3 Beta 2 to Beta 4 Upgrade script.
MOD Version: [Beta 1 -> Beta 3] & [Beta 2 -> Beta 4]
Authors:
Exreaction
Handyman
Highway of Life
MOD Description: Upgrade phpBB3 Beta 1 -> Beta 3 or Beta 2 -> Beta 4

Works with:

• phpBB 3.0 BETA 1
  

Features:

• Upgrades your phpBB3 Beta 1 forum to a phpBB3 Beta 3 forum
  
• Upgrades your phpBB3 Beta 2 forum to a phpBB3 Beta 4 forum
  

Language: English

Licence: GNU General Public License v2

Screenshots:

Installation Level: Easy
Installation Time: 3 Minutes
Format: MOD
Download File:

1. Beta 1 -> Beta 3 upgrade:

   beta1beta3.zip

   Beta 1 -> Beta 3 Upgrade script.
   Last updated by Exreaction on 01/19/2007

   (54.73 KiB) Downloaded 133 times

   
   
2. Beta 2 -> Beta 4 upgrade:

   beta2beta4.zip

   Beta 2 -> Beta 4 Upgrade script.

   (130.56 KiB) Downloaded 176 times

   
   

Instructions: (Please read the readme.txt that comes with the script)

For Beta 1 boards

1. For Beta 1 -> Beta 3 First Download phpBB3 Beta 3 (not CVS for ease of upgrading at a later time) from here:
   http://www.phpbb.com/development/files/phpBB-3.0.B3.zip" target="_blank
   or here:
   http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpb ... z?download" target="_blank
   
   For Beta 2 boards
   
2. For Beta 2 -> Beta 4 Download phpBB3 Beta 4 http://www.phpbb.com/development/files/phpBB-3.0.B4.zip" target="_blank
   http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpb ... z?download" target="_blank
   For Beta 1 boards
   
3. Install Beta 3
   
   For Beta 2 boards
   
4. Install Beta 4
   
   
5. Unzip the upgrade script
   
   
6. Copy the contents of the upgrade script to
   For Beta 1 boards
   yourBeta3Forum/ (to run the script you will browse to yourBeta3Forum/upgrade)
   
   For Beta 2 boards
   yourBeta4Forum/ (to run the script you will browse to yourBeta4Forum/upgrade)
   
   
7. Copy the upgrade/styles/subSilver/template/upgrade.html to /styles/subSilver/template/upgrade.html (this will work with any style)
   
   For Beta 1 boards
   
8. Copy the config.php from your Beta 1 board to the upgrade directory of your Beta 3 board
   
   For Beta 2 boards
   
9. Copy the config.php from your Beta 2 board to the upgrade directory of your Beta 4 board
   
10. Make sure you are logged into your Beta 3/4 board as Founder (id=2)
    
    
11. Make sure you don't have Meta redirects disabled... without Meta redirects enabled you will have to press the next button 62 times (Note: Meta redirects are enabled unless you disable them with a tool such as the web developer toolkit for FireFox)
    
    For Beta 1 boards
    
12. Browse to yourPhpBB3Beta3Forum/upgrade and click option 1 or 2
    
    For Beta 2 boards
    
13. Browse to yourPhpBB3Beta4Forum/upgrade and click option 1 or 2
    
    
14. Let us know how it works
    
    
15. Have fun with your upgraded forum.
    

Special Thanks: Special Thanks to Exreaction who really got this thing finished since I started it and didn't have enough time to devote to finishing it... without his efforts this would not have been completed for another 2 months.

[EXreaction]

Glad it is finally released.

I have already done a little testing on it and everything seems to upgrade great here. Once you are done upgrading the forum to Beta 3 you should delete everything in the cache folder(except the .htaccess file) if you browsed anywhere on the forums(especially the adminCP).

[its_kul]

HELLO GUYS
i have more than 1050 users on my site.
if i use this mod is that gonna work ....
i have few mods also on the forum.

hi highway
hows life sir?

cheers

[Highway of Life]

Hey Kul

You disappeared on us for a while there.

This is what I would do...
Download all the [FILES] for your forum... EVERYTHING, then get the entire database, and create a local version of it... then run it there so that you can make sure it works... if everything goes well, you can run it on your board online.

Remember, it has not been thoroughly tested yet, so be aware.

Edit: Woah! wait a second... you have 1,050 users on a phpBB3 Beta board? or phpBB2?

This is not a phpBB2 -> phpBB3 upgrade, THAT upgrade is in another topic.
This is for a phpBB3 (beta) -> phpBB3 (beta) upgrade

[its_kul]

hey
high way
i have my college exams thats why i was absent for few days.
will be ragular from 10th of next month.

hey sorry
i messed up it.
i have phpbb 3 beta 2..

i will wait till the final phpbb 3 will be released.

cheers.

[Handyman]

Hey Its Kul, this script is a Beta 1 to Beta 3... the Beta 2 to Beta 3 is coming very soon.
Also, like Highway said, I would download your forum database and files and install a Beta 3 on your localhost before using it live... that way you can make sure it works first and report any bugs.

So far, Exreaction has used it and it seemed to have gone very well... there is 1 know bug that we will be working on.

[birbal]

Thanks Handy Man.

Now I can sleep in peace. I had a huge userbase of more than 800+ members and lotsa traffics (mostly downloads ;( )

I was thinking of movin to vbulletin, but you saved my day.

Thanks and God Bless You with superior Programming Powers.

Regards.
BirBal.
Founder - www.techbirbal.com

[its_kul]

hey birbal
welcome abroad.

ok handyman i will wait for few more days.

cheers

[Highway of Life]

Hey Birbal!
Long time lurker?
I recall seeing your site before, but I can't remember from where I would have seen the link.
And curiosity struck me for a moment... why were you thinking of going to vB?
Was it just the fact that you may not be able to upgrade your Beta Forum?

Hey Kul, okay, good... once the Beta2 upgrade modification is complete, you will be able to upgrade from a Beta2 (non-CVS) but make sure you backup the database just in case.

[nesl247]

Few issues here. One (which I forgot to get the error output while it was there) is that you can't upgrade if your ranks have no image set as it says that the last field in the insert cannot be null.

Secondly, this is in the header while the upgrade is going:

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[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /upgrade/index.php on line 412: Undefined variable: s_option_two
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/functions.php on line 3299: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:2840)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/functions.php on line 3301: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:2840)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/functions.php on line 3302: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:2840)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/functions.php on line 3303: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:2840)

Thirdly, this happens:

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SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

Unknown column 'worc_common' in 'field list' [1054]

SQL

INSERT INTO phpbb_search_wordlist (word_id, word_text, worc_common) VALUES ('1', 'example', '0')

BACKTRACE

FILE: includes/db/mysql.php
LINE: 132
CALL: dbal->sql_error()

FILE: upgrade/tables/search_wordlist.php
LINE: 45
CALL: dbal_mysql->sql_query()

FILE: upgrade/index.php
LINE: 76
CALL: include('upgrade/tables/search_wordlist.php')