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I haven't seen this question addressed yet, I figured I'd ask it. How would one (technically) port a successful vBulletin userbase (NOT the content). I'm not particularly interested in a single-sign-on but if it's possible to authenticate OSQA with the vB database, that might work as well. Clearly reserving usernames is most important, utilizing same passwords would be ideal but likely not possible. Secondary to that would be importing some or all of the user profile information, and lastly maintaining some record of previous reputation ( I know that would be difficult ). Thanks. |
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Is perfectly possible, and quite easy actually, but the approach might be different depending on what you're looking for. Do you want to keep both sites running? Or just want to migrate from VBulletin to OSQA maintaining the userbase? Also, are you going to use the same database? EDIT (After first comment): So what you need is to create an OSQA module that will allow you to authenticate OSQA against your VBulletin userbase. That is pretty easy to create, basically you just need to make some sort of plan about how you would retrieve that info from VBulletin. If the VB database is accessible by the machine runing OSQA, you can just query it directly, if not, you can just look for some sort of VB plugin that will add some sort of XML-RPC server so that OSQA can communicate with it. As soon as you have that proccess figured out, please pop in the OSQA chat room and I'll try to help you out. Thanks for the quick answer. My plan is fluid, and will depend on both how the software matures and how well it's received by my community. That being said, I am interested in first allowing my vB users to test the system ideally without re-registering, but certainly maintaining their username. Both sites can have independent logins as I would want the option to run either independently. (As ultimately I would consider completely replacing vB). I don't want vB and OSQA in the same database, and they are currently configured separately. Thanks.
(16 May '10, 16:59)
ECO
Edited my answer.
(16 May '10, 17:11)
Hernani Cerq... ♦♦
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