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BBXF – Bulletin board XML format

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    Hi,

    What exactly IS the BBXF format? I can't find a schema for it and I would like to convert over a decade of forum data from a proprietary system on learnjazzpiano.com into a format that can be imported into bbpress.

    Thanks!

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    I can't find the schema online either... but it looks like BBXF is now supported by bbPress v 1.

    If you have a working install of the bbPress alpha or RC1, you could export your data from there and figure out the schema from the export?

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    That's a good idea, I haven't looked at the release candidates for BBpress... learned long ago to let other people get messy on the bleeding edge of technology :)

    What's the chance that the data format will change when the real version 1 is release, anyone?

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    I'm not sure... but once you've successfully imported the data into bbPress, you should be able to upgrade to the final version of bbPress without having to worry about BBXF anymore?

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    Actually the BBXF plugins have been temporarily removed from bbPress.

    This one has been on the back-burner for a while, but hoping to base the first real release on the RSS or ATOM standard somehow. Similar to the way WordPress' export format is based on RSS.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    Ok, thanks, so basically at this time there is no way to import forum data into bbpress?

    Is there any kind of timeline on when something like this will be integrated, either via a plugin or internal to bbpress? No rush on this end, there's a lot of customizing I need to do and I have to learn PHP to create some plugins I need, but I don't want to waste my time if it's not going to happen.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Does RC3 include any utilities to import data from atom/rss xml documents? Eagerly awaiting such a feature so I can start using it on learnjazzpiano.com :)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Not at the moment and it won't have anything available in the first release.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Are there any database diagrams yet? I might be able to stuff the database myself if I knew the db structures and dependencies.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I would like to know the database schema, too. I have about 2000 posts from a flat file database and want to import it to bbpress. Anyone has any suggestions?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Could you use the "Data Dictionary" link at the bottom of the page in phpMyAdmin? I think it shows you everything you need to know about the tables. Not sure what versions of phpMyAdmin that's in, but it's in version 3.2 for sure and I think I recall that being in at least as far back as 2.9.

    http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/data-dictionary.png

    Does that give enough information to start converting?

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