I wanna trick someone, so if I wanted to move from FluxBB to whatever your forum thing is called, how would I do that?

Also, I got into XPLR, so I've decided to let you have your way on the AF Wiki.

How is moving a forum to FutureBB "tricking someone"...? Anyway, there are plans in the works to create a converter, but nothing exists yet.

What is XPLR?

Jacob G.
Executive director and co-head developer

Ah never mind, I just started with FBB anyways.


XPLR is basically the same thing as what we had doing b4, cept for I put the other person in a diff position because I had learned my lesson.

And if you are wondering, no, FluxBB doesn't use the same system. Unless when you install FluxBB, you tell it to use "futurebb_" as its database prefix.

Even if they have the same database prefix, they have different structures.

Jacob G.
Executive director and co-head developer

How about "futurestructures_" :P

I just realized something. THESE forums used to run FluxBB so how did you merge them?

I wrote a rudimentary script to move the topic/post structure over. Since the database size was pretty small, I was actually able to check each post individually to make sure they all transferred properly.

Jacob G.
Executive director and co-head developer

May I have this "rudimentary script" please?

The script required the use of a special API that I integrated into the FST website that processed the information from FluxBB. The script downloaded the necessary information (users, topics, posts, etc.) and then actually inserted it into a local mirror of the website that I had on my computer (when I made the FutureBB-integrated website live, I just copied the database over using the import/export utilities). The script only worked for the exact setup that we had before and likely won't work for other setups.

Jacob G.
Executive director and co-head developer

oh :(

Also, I just realized that the situation on Scratch was different--you wanted to review every request. I want something different. ALL I want is to confirm that they are the same person. Maybe add some parameters to the account creation interface? I don't know. Got any ideas, Brain Boy? Also, can I call you Brain Boy? (I know you're like 17 but whatever)

In that case, you can just use sessions or any of the other methods I mentioned to transfer the user's username over into MediaWiki, and when the user registers, just automatically remove the username field and when the form is submitted, just treat it as if the username field had the user's forum username.

Jacob G.
Executive director and co-head developer

I'd rather not toy with the core software--is there an already existing extension that modifies that page?

Edit: Will this work? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewSignupPage

If you can modify it to check the user information appropriately, then yes, it would work.

Jacob G.
Executive director and co-head developer

Ok.