SQl table copy script

[Cprl.Rst]

HI there,

 

i have a website http://www.league.vivahosting.co.uk which uses Joomla for main cms and Dragonflycms as the league component module.

 

now what i want to achieve is a script to copy username and email from the jos_users table and insert it into the cmsdf_users table now the rows in each table are as follows

 

jos_users - username, email

cmsdf_users - username, user-email

 

now i'dlike to do the same with the passwords but joomal's encryption is hash:salted i believe and Dragonflycms is md5 so i'm thinking a workaround using a custom field provided by joomla to have a plain txt password that is encrypted during the transfer process  from db to db.

 

Now the custom field is not kept in the jos_users table its located in letnp_user which i believe are linked by user_id.

 

Below is what i have so far but doesn't seem to work it gives the following error

 

ERROR: there was a problem inserting data.

 

and

 

[29-Aug-2012 15:31:13] PHP Warning:  mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/leaguevi/public_html/convert.php on line 25

 

in toe error_log from the server.

 

<?php

// Set the connection information
$con = mysql_connect("localhost", "DbName", "Password");

// Select the original database containing old records
mysql_select_db("leaguevi_jooml62", $con);

// Check the connection
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}

// Select the records from the database
$query = "SELECT * FROM jos_users";

// Run the query
$result = mysql_query($query);

// Now select the new database
mysql_select_db("cmsdf_users", $con);

// Loop through each row from the old database
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
     // Set each column to a variable
     $username = $row['username'];
     $email = $row['email'];
     // You could also reset defaults or check for NULL columns
     // Here's an example for permissions:
     if ($row['permissions'] == 0)
     {
          $permissions = 1;
     }
     else if ($row['permissions'] > 3)
     {
          $permissions = $row['permissions'] + 1;
     }
     else
     {
          $permissions = $row['permissions'];
     }
     $date = $row['date'];

     // Set up the INSERT query
     $insert = "INSERT INTO cmsdf_users (username, user_email, permissions, date) VALUES ('$username', '$email', '$permissions', '$date')";


     // Run the INSERT query
     mysql_query($insert);


     // Check to make sure this particular INSERT worked
     if (!mysql_insert_id())
     {
          echo "ERROR: there was a problem inserting data.";
     }
}

// Close the connection
mysql_close($con);

?>

 

Any help on this i would be very greatful

[Christian F.]

Don't do this, you'll only create a huge headache for yourself. Not to mention, there is no way for you to unhash the passwords. (They're hashed, not encrypted. Former is one-way only, meaning it's impossible to reverse.)

 

What I'd do instead, is to modify DragonflyCMS to use Joomla's login code instead. Especially seeing as Joomla's is a lot more secure than DragonflyCMS'. Then users only have to log in once and be done with it, and without you having to send new passwords to everyone.

 

PS: Why use two CM systems, for one site? This does strike me as a over-complicating things a bit too much, especially if they are meant to share users. My recommendation would be to move everything over into Joomla, and then just one it. Keep things as simple as possible, and you'll have a lot less problems on your hands.

[Cprl.Rst]

Don't do this, you'll only create a huge headache for yourself. Not to mention, there is no way for you to unhash the passwords. (They're hashed, not encrypted. Former is one-way only, meaning it's impossible to reverse.)

 

What I'd do instead, is to modify DragonflyCMS to use Joomla's login code instead. Especially seeing as Joomla's is a lot more secure than DragonflyCMS'. Then users only have to log in once and be done with it, and without you having to send new passwords to everyone.

 

PS: Why use two CM systems, for one site? This does strike me as a over-complicating things a bit too much, especially if they are meant to share users. My recommendation would be to move everything over into Joomla, and then just one it. Keep things as simple as possible, and you'll have a lot less problems on your hands.

 

i'm not technically minded enough to modify dragonfly to use joomlas login code so this is the simplist way i could think of.

 

the reason for the 2 cm's is this DF cms is less than pretty and devlopment is minimal at best however the league/competition module for DFCMS is one of the best i have seen so thats the sole reason for the 2 CM's

 

i'm not wanting the pass from the joomla db as i know it cannot be decrypted how ever if i take a txt field from joomla i thought this could be md5'd into password field for DFCMS hope this makes a little more sense.