paraflexx Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Well, I took on a PHP site a few years ago. I did not setup the original site but have been trying to maintain it. Over and over the site is hacked once a month and I know why. I need to completely upgrade the site to the latest PHP and redo everything. All i want to have is the current forum users and posts. How would i go about such a thing? I have looked for months and cannot find answers. I cant loose the forum data. please any help would be great. -desperate :-) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/70168-total-php-forum-migration-or-wipe/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuggieBear Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Are you using some prebuilt forum software, if you are then you can probably guarantee that it's already been done and there's a process for it. If not then it's probably a little more difficult, but not beyond all hope. Are you hoping to put a new forum system in, or just use the old one after a re-design? Regards Huggie Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/70168-total-php-forum-migration-or-wipe/#findComment-352423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 The version of PHP is not why the site is getting "hacked". It's probably due to poor coding. If you don't know enough to fix it, you'll need to do lots of research on things like SQL injection, or hire someone to do it for you. Redoing everything will take more time than fixing existing bugs, and probably create new bugs. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/70168-total-php-forum-migration-or-wipe/#findComment-352424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
paraflexx Posted September 22, 2007 Author Share Posted September 22, 2007 Are you using some prebuilt forum software, if you are then you can probably guarantee that it's already been done and there's a process for it. If not then it's probably a little more difficult, but not beyond all hope. Are you hoping to put a new forum system in, or just use the old one after a re-design? Regards Huggie Well its site is php ver 4. and the person who installed the stie didn not implement any type of security really. because of how the installed the site i cant even upgrade. The forums are (phpbb 2.2 or something) I wouldnt mind upgrading to a new forum system. I just wanted to keep the old forum posts. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/70168-total-php-forum-migration-or-wipe/#findComment-353038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooldude832 Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 Upgrading a forum is simply, you just need to know the strucutre of the old mysql database and simply port it over to the new systems, it isn't too difficult to do, but you just have to know what you are looking for. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/70168-total-php-forum-migration-or-wipe/#findComment-353041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkfreaks Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 you dont have to change to anything make sure you have the following functions in your coding mysql_real_escape_string trim stripslashes Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/70168-total-php-forum-migration-or-wipe/#findComment-353042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rarebit Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 There's lot's of help out there, phpbb is very popular... A google search: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=phpbb+upgrade&btnG=Search&meta= PHPBB sites: http://www.phpbb.com/ http://www.phpbb.com/support/?sid=007 Example tutorial: http://xona.com/2006/04/24.html Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/70168-total-php-forum-migration-or-wipe/#findComment-353043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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