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Title: Congrats for new forum software
Post by: Chafik Graiguer on October 30, 2011, 07:47:54 PM
Congrats for the forum upgrade
SMF is among the best forum softwares
Title: Re: Congrats for new forum software
Post by: Liviu Lalescu on October 31, 2011, 03:24:39 AM
Yes, but conversion was not very easy.
Title: Re: Congrats for new forum software
Post by: Chafik Graiguer on October 31, 2011, 08:45:44 PM
Yeah but it is worth the hard work
For BBcode an URLs you can use global Search and Replace via sql querie
Also, think about a htaccess file to redirect users and search engines to new urls.. so the board wont loose page rank
Title: Re: Congrats for new forum software
Post by: Liviu Lalescu on November 01, 2011, 12:04:47 PM
Quote from: Chafik Graiguer on October 31, 2011, 08:45:44 PM
Yeah but it is worth the hard work
For BBcode an URLs you can use global Search and Replace via sql querie
Also, think about a htaccess file to redirect users and search engines to new urls.. so the board wont loose page rank

I am not familiar with these. About redirecting, this is not too important, because page rank of FET homepage is important, not the FET forum. And it would be very difficult to redirect each old link.

If you have any advice on what to do, specifically, let me know.

For the moment, me and Volker manually converted old links to new ones, in the English forum. Only Arabic ones remaining, we'll try to solve these as well in the near future.
Title: Re: Congrats for new forum software
Post by: Silver on November 01, 2011, 07:49:07 PM
please html tag not work in arabic section (like [size=14]):
http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=901.0

http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=900.0
Title: Re: Congrats for new forum software
Post by: Liviu Lalescu on November 01, 2011, 07:51:42 PM
Please do not post php session id, might pose security risks. I modified your previous post.
Title: Re: Congrats for new forum software
Post by: Liviu Lalescu on November 01, 2011, 07:54:31 PM
Quote from: Silver on November 01, 2011, 07:49:07 PM
please html tag not work in arabic section (like [size=14]):
http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=901.0

http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=900.0

You need to modify from [size=14] to [size=14pt], I think.

If manually changing is too hard, I might try a global replace, but it is risky, as I have no experience.

Edited to add: it seems that if you have something like:

[size=14][right]...text...[/right][/size]

you need to swap the "right" and "size" tags, like:

[right][size=14]...text...[/size][/right]

so that "right" is at the exterior.
Title: Re: Congrats for new forum software
Post by: Liviu Lalescu on November 02, 2011, 12:15:29 PM
I solved it. Please report if I forgot something.