How to Migrate Dolphin to phpFox or Social Engine Community PHP Scripts
In this Article- We are mentioning the ways to migrate Dolphin to Social Engine or phpFox.
Dolphin is a free community building php script and it is excellent for those who want to start their own social networking engine for free. Though Dolphin is good but it still needs many improvements and there are many reasons why phpFox is better than Dolphin. That is why many Dolphin users want to transfer their site to phpFox or Social Engine.
Dolphin to phpFox
You can import Dolphin to phpFox without spending any amount of money. phpFox has built-in importer for Dolphin and many other scripts. By using this importer you can import your database tables direct to phpFox without any modification.
- First login to your phpFox admin account
- Here select the option “Import”
- Now select Dolphin in given options
- If you have custom tables in your Dolphin database then you have to enter the name of that table under “Media” and “User” tables. If you do not want to import custom tables then leave it blank.
- Now press “Start” button
Your Dolphin database will be imported within a short time. ( If your database is large it might take more than one hour. So be patient while importing data)
Dolphin to Social Engine
There is a phpFox add-on named “Boonex Dolphin to Social Engine” with which you can import Dolphin data to Social Engine. Unfortunately this plugin is not free. You can get this plugin from socialengineguru.com