Archived Forums From EllisLab

You may notice that we have a new forum category at the bottom of the main page - "CodeIgniter Archived (from EllisLab)". Yes, I have received a database dump of the content only, from EllisLab

A few of you offered to help out with converting ... here's your wakeup call!

The database dump is a custom one, and not necessarily in any of the standard forum formats. I have in mind a CI program that can present some number of the archived threads (10? 100?), and let the user choose which ones to keep (most, hopefully) and which ones should not be kept (spam). It would be a good idea for these to be presented in reverse order (oldest ones first), so that the newest ones float to the top of the forums, like on EllisLab.

For the ones to keep, it will need to add the member name if not in the new forum, the thread itself, and the related posts. These should then be deleted or flagged to prevent further consideration. Those flagged for deletion should have their thread and posts removed.

I am trying to avoid adding all 28,000 members, 52,000 threads and 226,000 posts, unless they are relevant. This is not a job that will happen overnight!

Obviously, programming experience, especially with MyBB, would be a great asset.

If you are willing and able to help tackle this, please send me an email. If you have questions about the "job", please post them in this thread, so everyoine has the same answers.

James Parry
Project Lead