In case anyone comes across the same problem with the date, check this post out: http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2246

Yesterday I've installed bbPress on a WordPress-driven website (I've only just started using WP as well, just about a week ago, so bear with me please) and immediately afterward I noticed some strange strings here and there, both on the front-end and the back-end too. Apparently, the dates+time and some author information doesn't get rendered correctly.

e.g. %A %B %e%q, %Y at %I:%M %p (you can see it here)

What can I do about this?

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?

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And when Im trying log in or go to bb-admin Im geting that error :
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Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in
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Anyone could help me with that ;/ cuzz Im noob from php and I would like to make it working ;/
please for help ;/
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However, if I log in through bbpress, then I can log out of bbpress. It seems that the logout function from bbpress is not connecting with wordpress.

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?

I try lot of things.
Like change in sidebar.php & comments.php in
/public_html/wpress/wp-content/themes

whatever theme is.......to wp log out.

It does not solve my problem.

I think it is bug in WP or clear cookies some how.

Please reply me if anyone has solution.

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 ...

What can I check to see what's missing?

Thanks.

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