I am not sure where to put this, whether here or on Forum Management. But since it involves databases, I thought this is the right place. I ask the indulgence of the moderator. Anyway, I have a friend who owns a forum much like DP (not about webmasters though). She hires someone to maintain it for her - no, not me. It has thousands of members already and probably millions of posts, with lots of categories. You could say it's a pretty busy forum. Now, she plans to migrate it to SMF (not VB, PhBB or anything) after I showed her my newly-designed forum. Actually she likes to use my theme in that forum and all but she can't do that with her current software. The question is, how will she be able to do that? I told her the best place to get help is here in DP and since she's not yet a member, I volunteered. I hope you will help me save-face.
What forum software is she using. SMF has quite a few converters available, so I would definitely check there first: http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=15. It may end up require a custom migration, which could be extremely difficult on a forum of that size.
Yah, I just read about converters in smf forum. okey, I will ask her. thanks for caring to reply, jestep.