http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: import en Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:04:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion#post-17834 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:34:09 +0000 hhberthelsen 17834@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm also looking for an update, and so far found these links:<br /> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC2008" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC2008</a><br /> <a href="http://www.stealyourcarbon.net/2008/07/midterm-progress/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stealyourcarbon.net/2008/07/midterm-progress/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.stealyourcarbon.net/2008/07/bbpress-importer/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stealyourcarbon.net/2008/07/bbpress-importer/</a></p> <p>and SoC '08 discussions going on here:<br /> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/wordpress-soc-2008" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/wordpress-soc-2008</a></p> <p>Not sure if these are good signs ... v0.1A seems a long way to a stable version :-o </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/converting-xdforum-to-bbpress#post-17440 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:10:37 +0000 fastpipe 17440@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>No problem. I like to keep Wordpress up to date and the XDForum plug-in was holding me back. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/converting-xdforum-to-bbpress#post-17437 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:42:49 +0000 _ck_ 17437@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for sharing this! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-data-from-expression-engine-forum#post-16973 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:02:48 +0000 keress 16973@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Is Expression Engine's forum that similar to Simple Machines? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-request-rss-feed-import#post-16961 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:35:17 +0000 SteveFree 16961@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>bbSync would be fine however I want to import RSS feeds from blogs other than mine. Importing from my WordPress blog just won't do it.</p> <p>I thought about possibly using feedwordpress plugin to pull the topics into wordpress then use bbSync to pull the topics into bbPress but...... that's getting pretty ugly and I really don't want to pull external feeds into my blog......</p> <p>Would prefer to find a plugin which I can just point at a feed and it will create new topics into a forum of my choice (per rss feed). </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-request-rss-feed-import#post-16933 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:32:20 +0000 chrishajer 16933@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I have heard of WordPress widgets being used to show the latest bbPress entries in a blog, but nothing I know of that will create a new entry in bbPress from an RSS feed.</p> <p>Could you use bbSync to follow the RSS items that are imported into WordPress to create the new bbPress topics?<br /> <a href="http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/</a></p> <p>Or, would RSS2HTML help at all (it wouldn't make new topics in bbPress)?<br /> <a href="http://www.rss2html.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rss2html.com/</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-request-rss-feed-import#post-16925 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:16:50 +0000 SteveFree 16925@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I want to convert from my phpBB forum to bbPress however I need 1 more plugin to make it happen.</p> <p>I need a Plugin for bbPress which will monitor RSS feed's and post new items into bbPress as a post. </p> <p>Does anyone know of a free plugin which does this today?</p> <p>For Wordpress, I'm using the Plugin - FeedWordpress<br /> URL - <a href="http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/" rel="nofollow">http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/</a></p> <p>It works great and has many great options. Hopefully something exists for bbPress.</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/converting-xdforum-to-bbpress#post-16873 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:48:26 +0000 fastpipe 16873@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>XDForum, another Wordpress forum plug-in, stopped development a few months ago.</p> <p>For anyone considering converting their XDForum to BBPress, I've posted detailed instructions for <a href="http://www.fastpipe.com/2008/06/23/converting-xdforum-to-bbpress">converting XDForum tables to BBPress tables</a> on my site. The instructions include a method for tagging your existing content.</p> <p>I looked for something like this a few months ago and couldn't find it. Hopefully, someone will find this useful. The result of the conversion can be viewed <a href="http://www.hdtvok.com/forums/">here</a>... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion#post-16838 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:27:49 +0000 bryan868 16838@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Any updates on this? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-data-from-expression-engine-forum#post-16799 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:16:35 +0000 bobbyh 16799@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>To <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/transfer-from-another-forum-is-it-possible#post-12501">quote chrishajer</a>, your best bet will probably be to convert to phpbb and then from there to bbpress. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-data-from-expression-engine-forum#post-16798 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:01:04 +0000 keress 16798@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I was halfway through creating a forum with Expression Engine when my client decided that Word Press was the way she wanted to go after all. I had created about 50 users, based on a Yahoo group of hers, and had input half the posts on that Yahoo group into the EE forum, logging in as the varied users and posting them individually, by hand. </p> <p>DON'T want to repeat that effort. I'm hoping it will be simple to export a file of the users, import that into your BB forum, then do the same with the posts. Or it may be faster, more cost effective for her, to find someone here with the expertise to get that done. </p> <p>Thanks for your attention to this. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-database#post-16517 Fri, 30 May 2008 05:01:02 +0000 chrishajer 16517@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>This is an old post about converting from PHPBB2:<br /> <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb</a></p> <p>The Google Summer of Code project for bbPress is going to focus on importers for bbPress, so if you are not using PHPBB2, you might want to wait until the GSOC project is over. There will probably be an announcement if they complete the tools.</p> <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC2008#Web_Forums_Export.2FImport_Standard_and_Tools" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC2008#Web_Forums_Export.2FImport_Standard_and_Tools</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-database#post-16516 Fri, 30 May 2008 03:25:14 +0000 Kenjiwing 16516@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Is it possible to convert PHPBB posts/user db to bbpress?</p> <p>Any help would be appreciated. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion#post-16071 Thu, 08 May 2008 21:57:35 +0000 bryan868 16071@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I wish there was a beta script! I really want to move from phpbb3 to bbpress now. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion#post-15925 Fri, 02 May 2008 07:41:36 +0000 yazerty 15925@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for the news :).</p> <p>But isn't it a beta script to import phpbb3 to a bbpress ? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion#post-15915 Thu, 01 May 2008 14:45:11 +0000 sambauers 15915@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Import/Export is being improved as part of a Google Summer of Code project. We will hopefully have some results from that to share by the end of it.</p> <p>The basic idea is to create export plugins for other forum software which can export to a standard format. Then we will have one importer to import that standard format into bbPress. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion#post-15891 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:38:31 +0000 Sally1 15891@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Same here!!! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion#post-15886 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:53:39 +0000 yazerty 15886@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Wow, there isn't any tool to move from phpbb3 to bbpress ? How bad it is :-(.</p> <p>I hope there will be soon :))... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion#post-15804 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:54:41 +0000 tommiehansen 15804@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>This is very important if one already got a forum but want to have a *GOOD* integration with Wordpress on a new site.</p> <p>Imagine loosing 4000 users just to be able to change to bbPress. It just won't happen and it's a damn shame that there isn't a converter yet. :/ </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/vbulletin-gt-phpbbgt-bbpress-tranfer-help#post-15770 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:15:29 +0000 melvitax 15770@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>ok, i downloaded the latest trunk and i was able to get it working although it threw this error out: </p> <p>Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/cristian/public_html/foros/bb-admin/upgrade-functions.php on line 537</p> <p>any thoughts? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/vbulletin-gt-phpbbgt-bbpress-tranfer-help#post-15769 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:40:46 +0000 melvitax 15769@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>is there a way to see where the databse update script is getting stuck in? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/vbulletin-gt-phpbbgt-bbpress-tranfer-help#post-15748 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:43:47 +0000 melvitax 15748@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>hey guys,</p> <p>i am trying to por t a vbulletin forum to bbpress. i've managed to port it first to phpbb2 and then to bbpress 0.7 via converters, but know i am stuck unable to upgrade bbpress to 0.9. </p> <p>0.7 seems to be working fine on first glance and i can login i can see user posts. but when i try upgrading to 0.9 i get stuck in the database conversion with a time out error. i have a dedicated server and i have changed the timing restriction from 600 to 6000 but i still get that error after hours of execution. </p> <p>can anyone lend a hand? i've spent countless hours now trying to get this thing up and running to no avail. </p> <p>thanks,<br /> melvin </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/invision-ipboard-to-bbpress-conversion-script#post-15495 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:18:19 +0000 Beer 15495@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Would anyone be able to assist with testing a conversion script from IP.Board 2.3.4 to bbPress 0.9? I've started writing some code myself to handle the switch. It would be great if any other coders would be willing to assist with this too.</p> <p>The way it will work currently is to generate a 'ipb2bb.sql' file that you can pass to mysql to upgrade the database. It will import users, categories, topics and posts. You can ask it to limit it's import to select categories only instead of all categories. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/successful-convert-smf-gt-phpbb2-gt-bbpress#post-15415 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:21:55 +0000 affacat 15415@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>wonderful! i'm glad to hear my post was helpful! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/best-way-to-add-posts-topics-and-users-from-old-forum#post-15407 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:47:09 +0000 citizenkeith 15407@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I know just enough PHP to be dangerous. Very dangerous. :-D In other words, not much... </p> <p>Maybe this is the opportunity for me to learn more. We'll see... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/best-way-to-add-posts-topics-and-users-from-old-forum#post-15400 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:23:50 +0000 _ck_ 15400@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You want a better spider tool that can limit how many threads it uses, obeys robots.txt and uses a standard user agent.</p> <p>Good luck getting all that into bbpress though. First you'll need to write a custom parser that can standardize the posts and topics into a clean format. Some was working on a bbPress xml importer but if you get the data organized enough you could parse it directly into mysql. Not a trivial project by any means but I guess you realize that .</p> <p>Hopefully you know PHP or some other language that can help you parse all the data? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/best-way-to-add-posts-topics-and-users-from-old-forum#post-15391 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:33:28 +0000 citizenkeith 15391@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>From 1998-2003, I ran a forum using the Network54 website. These forums were horrendous. There wasn't any user database... people just wrote their posts then filled in their name and an optional email address. (It's amazing I didn't get any spam during that five year period.)</p> <p>My goal is to get all these posts into bbPress.</p> <p>I was unable to spider the forum. Network54's server kicked in and blocked all attempts using Spiderzilla.</p> <p>Here's the forum:<br /> <a href="http://www.network54.com/Forum/3752/" rel="nofollow">http://www.network54.com/Forum/3752/</a></p> <p>Instead this is what I've done: There are 53 pages of posts. Some of them are threaded, some are not. On each page, there's a "View All Messages" link that will show you all of that's page's posts and threads on one single HTML page. Each thread is separated with an HR tag.</p> <p>I downloaded each of these 53 "View All" pages. I just spent 20 minutes cleaning up the code from Page 1, and I'm left with a fairly lean page. Here's what I got for page 1:<br /> <a href="http://www.judyhenskefan.com/viewall-page-1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.judyhenskefan.com/viewall-page-1.htm</a></p> <p>I will continue doing this for all 53 pages. Then I would like to separate out all the topics and posts, and put it into an "Archive" forum in my bbPress install. I'm trying to determine the best way of doing this...</p> <p>For one, a lot of the users are not registered on the current forum. Some are, but used slightly different names. Some people never entered their optional email address at the Network54 forum, so I don't have a way to put everybody into a user account. I could match up a bunch of them, but not all of them.</p> <p>How would you proceed, if you were me? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/successful-convert-smf-gt-phpbb2-gt-bbpress#post-15386 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:24:35 +0000 citizenkeith 15386@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Just want to say THANK YOU!!</p> <p>I gave up converting my phpBB forum months ago:<br /> <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/a-phpbb-to-bbpress-database-converter/page/2" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/a-phpbb-to-bbpress-database-converter/page/2</a></p> <p>But by utilizing the info here (and buy editing the SQL file by hand), I was able to get my forum into the very latest bbPress... it's even integrated with WP.</p> <p><a href="http://www.judyhenskefan.com/forums/" rel="nofollow">http://www.judyhenskefan.com/forums/</a></p> <p>Now I get to work on a new design for the forum and blog (as well as add lots of plugins to the new forum).</p> <p>Thanks again everybody! :-) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/successful-convert-smf-gt-phpbb2-gt-bbpress#post-15179 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:45:07 +0000 affacat 15179@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>yet another step.</p> <p>if you want pretty permalinks you'll need to fill in topic_slug in bb_topics. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-converstion#post-15056 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:26:23 +0000 DaMsT 15056@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Here too!</p> <p>This really should be good for promotion of bbPress, to have a converter for phpbb3 that is. </p>