Can anyone please provide me a step-by-step instruction on how to convert an SMF-powered forum site to VBulletin? No host transfer. The transfer is only for forum software. Thanks in advance.
Digital point is a nice place to post, but for this type of support you really should go to the VBulletin.com forums. They have a script just for database conversion, its called Impex. Log into the VBulletin members area and download the latest version of IMPEX - http://www.vbulletin.com/members/import.php To log into the members area, you will have to provide your customer number and your password. Your customer number is different from your VBulletin forum username. Then see this thread to get you started - http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116398 That thread is a part of this forum section - http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=92 That whole section is dedicated to migrating other forum software to VB.
As stated many times before, make sure you backup your donor database for shiggles. Impex works well and 95% of the time I have zero issues with it. Mark