Site Migration

Not a real answer but a suggestion on how to get around this....
I guess that password encryption is different on both cms's. So exporting the users from one and importing them to the other most likely isn't going to work.
You could import them and set a default password. Send them a message with the default password and let them change their password. But don't use the same default for all users....
Not an easy way but it might work....

Thanks for your advice, I will bear it in mind.

MPN uses MD5 one-way password encryption, so I guess that really does mean it will be impossible to export and then import users to Fusion?

Is Fusion MD5 also? And if it is, will a database export and import of our Users work?

Yes and no,

After v6.01.11/12 (can't remember which) we are using double MD5-hash.
But that shouldn't be that big problem, I guess.

Some further info...

I've just checked the hashed password in 3 different databases.

In 2 different Fusion systems, where I use the same password, the hash string was identical.

In MyPHPnuke, the same password gives completely different hash string.

But... if I then take the hash from MyPHPnuke database, and hash that hash (I guess that's what you mean by double hash) then it gives the same string as those that are in the Fusion databases.

So MyPHPnuke = MD5 single hash
Fusion = MD5 double hash

So I'm guessing (guess is accurate, this is all very new to me) that this is do-able, and if get the hashed data from the MPN database, then somehow can manage to hash it again, that will give me the correct string to enter into the users section of the Fusion database.

Any advice on how I might achieve this easily - because I don't really want to manually set-up all 400 of the old user accounts myself?

Or am I talking complete nonsense? :o

Apologies if I am, I'm no expert, I'm learning this 'MD5 hash' stuff on-the-fly.

That's no problem at all.
The (old) passwords, which are not in double MD5-Hash, also work ;)

Excellent news, thank you for confirming Slaughter.

So if old MD5-single hash passwords will work, can someone advise me on best way to get our old users added to Fusion with least amount of manual work?

Anyone got a script, or an easy way to add multiple users from CSV with just basic info (username, email, password)?

No-one have an answer?

This is all that is holding up launch of our Fusion site now, so any additional guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Apologies for going on, it is simply that I have very little PHP or mySQL experience.

Me = Photoshop and front-end HTML only.