I used the updated script provided by Abdessamad Idrissi at http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/downloads/list on my phpBB3 forum.

The conversion went smoothly and I could see the posts from my old forum appear in my bbpress forum.

However, all the posts had the authors listed as Anonymous, which means none of the users accounts were ported over.

Can someone help with this please? How did this happen and how can I fix this?

A newer update for bbpress-2.0 has been made, including some bad translation reported.

Regards, François.

A newer update for bbpress-2.0-rc-4 has been made.

Regards, François.

A new update of the translation has been made for bbpress-2.0-rc-3.

Regards, François.

You may find the French translation for bbpress-2.0-beta-3b in this article about installing bbPress in French. It will be updated as soon as possible with newer version.

Thanks for this great plugin, it works already quite nicely although it is beta.

Regards, François.

Tried once to go back and restart the process and when it came to the same point he says now I have a duplicate. Makes sense if it had already added some info to the database.

If anything has some ideas I would appreciate the help.
Thanks.

Any help?

1. Export phpbb3 SQL from the old location
2. Import phpbb3 SQL to the new location.
3. Install bbpress with the same db info where I imported the phpbb3 SQL.
4. Called the script from root folder of bbpress, but I get 500 Internal Server Error.

I can see that there are some hooks to phpbb3 root folder.
I don't know what is being called there, but maybe I could define DB settings manually somehow?

define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : './';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup();

So can this be done without phpbb3 installation?

Btw, I did the conversion on a shared server, and each conversion was instant. Of course, my forum is not that big, but worth mentioning ...

Remember! Make backup!

I have a question, though. I've spent three days looking for some info (at google, wordpress, etc) and I think this is the right place.

Do I have to upload the bbpress files into the same directory where the phpbb files are right now or the new bbpress files can be anywhere? I've read that the database must be the same. My guess is that the files can be anywhere but I just want to make sure.

Numediaweb: thanks a lot for your effort, much appreciated! :-)

I've been fighting with phpbb for a few days now, it's leaking everywhere now and I can't wait to get rid of it :-|

Thanks everybody!

A.

it doesn't parse the bbcode inside posts (meaning that all the links inside the posts are gone)

Is the bbcode still present in the bbPress database?

if so, then there are a few bbCode parsers for bbPress availible. I know Matt doesn't like it, and therefore we are the only forum that won't support it, but i think it only slows adoption

first of all thank you for the script: it does everything it promises and it's easy to use :-)

Non surprisingly it still seems to lack a few feature which are probably very hard to develop: it doesn't parse the bbcode inside posts (meaning that all the links inside the posts are gone) and it doesn't convert the attachments...

I hope someone will find the time to implement those, as I believe they're necessary to properly move a forum from one software to another.

Our forum is here

But thanks again anyway :-)

have fun! and thanx original poster: wmnasef

But I can't get my head around the password situation, the documentation with the plugin seems to suggest that the users password will be converted upon login, but they can't log in because their password has changed.

Link to plugin http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/md5-insecurity-for-bbpress/

What exactly is this plugin doing then? am I just stuck with everyone needing to reset? In which case do I need this plugin installed?

Also, how may one copy users from the phpbb_users database to the bb_users database manually?

Thanks for all help.