Modifying profile - problems

[Keith]

This is not an NT problem but I'm trying to modify my Forum Profile and get errors viz:

2: file_get_contents(http://www.nettalkcentral.com/images/comprofiler/./tn5956_516f658f6c557.jpg) [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable

File: /home/clarionc/public_html/nettalkcentral.com/components/com_smf/smf.class.php
Line: 1365

Is anyone else having problems?

Keith

[Bruce]

Hi Keith,

I don't know if anyone else is having problems Keith, but it's fair to say that there's next to no "administration" of this site, so it's not something that could easily be changed. Sorry.

cheers
Bruce

[Keith]

Would it be a god idea to write a new Nettalk Central in NetTalk?

Keith

[Bruce]

It would be a wonderful idea.
We even have the forum software already written.
What it really needs is all the existing data ported from this app to the forum software and we can go forward from there.

Of course there are lots of other things to do as well - hence the reason for not having done it already <g>.

cheers
Bruce

[Keith]

I had a quick look at the SMF manual especially Admin and there didn't seem to be a facility for dumping data out of the database.  My experience with these sort of repositories is that the 'owners' closely guard the data :-)

But if there is no simple way of getting the various bits of data then here are some observations and a suggestion:

• In the 'Web Sever - Ask for Help' there are only a total of 2912 topics
• Say there are and average of 4 posts per topic = 11,648 posts
• There are only three items to capture for each post - Who, When, What
• But there are only 1,760 posts from the beginning of 2016 to now
• This equals 5,280 items to capture to get the last year and a bit of activity from the most used section

The data could be loaded (Who, When What) via the tried and tested "Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V"
Why not start a new NetTalk Central which has the data load manually for the past 14 months and gradually phase out the usage of the SMF engine.

There are still a lot of other things but one could get quite quick at copying data - I could do it.

Is this worth a try.

Keith

[Bruce]

>> I had a quick look at the SMF manual especially Admin and there didn't seem to be a facility for dumping data out of the database. 

no, that part we can do. John can export the data from the MySQL database easily.

>> There are still a lot of other things but one could get quite quick at copying data - I could do it.
>> Is this worth a try.

I suppose that could work. But if you're prepared to write a conversion program....

Cheers
Bruce

[Keith]

Bruce

So what you are saying is that you can get all of the data out of the current DB into some text format - say comma delimited but that it then has to be massaged so that it can be successfully loaded into your new tables.

I'd be happy to have a crack at that. I would need the layouts and the rules.

Keith