http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Topic: Importing from phpBB en Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:41:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-8546 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:46:13 +0000 gspark 8546@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>too bad it doesn't work for phpbb3 </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-7614 Thu, 24 May 2007 01:06:34 +0000 WhiteSquaw 7614@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks, it`s useful! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-4233 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:13:13 +0000 lingmiester 4233@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hey all,</p> <p>I'm not sure, but this script does not work and seems to send all your emails to spammers. Careful. Use Bruno's instead. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-2127 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:29:03 +0000 jaim3 2127@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi, </p> <p>I enhaced the excellent Bruno Torres' script and made it able to import bbCode, as well as to cleanly import topics marked as <em>closed</em>, <em>sticky</em> and <em>announcements</em>, as well as some other improvements and bugfixing.</p> <p>Have a look at this: <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/402">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/402</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-1369 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:27:40 +0000 erikgloom 1369@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Interesting. Shouldn't be too difficult to convert &#38; import from any forum to another. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-1349 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:01:38 +0000 Trent 1349@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Did you edit the plugin to have your database username, database name and password? The plugin requires that information hardcoded into the space provided.</p> <p>Trent </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-1332 Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:30:51 +0000 pixelfight 1332@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Well, dunno...I cant get it to work ;-( </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-1318 Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:27:56 +0000 pixelfight 1318@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I got this message....</p> <p>Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)</p> <p>I am very new to databases, and I really could use some help here ;-) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-513 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:29:29 +0000 RedSkunk 513@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p><em>Please! You'll have to be patient.. we are lucky we got this phpBB to bbpress importer this quickly.. jeesh! I'm sure brunotorre will probably make up more import scripts then..</p> <p>If not brunotorre, then someone else I'm sure.. We'll just have to be patient here.. Just my 2 cents ...<br /> </em><br /> I was able to use his script to bring over all of my users, just by modifying the table names that it was calling for from phpBB. But his code got more complicated, especially for the posts.. For someone who has a firm grasp on php, it wasn't as much to ask as it might seem.. But I ended up bringing over the info by hand via PHPMyAdmin... Nearly everything, minus the dates of posts since PunBB put that info on a different table altogether.</p> <p>But yeah, I'm not faulting brunotorre for not getting to my issue immediately. The demand for PunBB-&gt;BBPress is prolly going to always be small. Kudos for brunotorre's work, def! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-458 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:32:34 +0000 spencerp 458@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p><em>What about importing from PunBB?</p> <p>*sigh* </em></p> <p>Please! You'll have to be patient.. we are lucky we got this phpBB to bbpress importer this quickly.. jeesh! I'm sure brunotorre will probably make up more import scripts then.. ;) =) </p> <p>If not brunotorre, then someone else I'm sure.. We'll just have to be patient here.. Just my 2 cents ... ;) =) </p> <p>spencerp </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-433 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:36:57 +0000 marky 433@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>My mistake; you're absolutely right --- it only displays deleted posts. :-) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-431 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:32:16 +0000 brunotorres 431@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Marky, I can be wrong, but the only posts which appear on the admin are the deleted ones. That may be why the imported posts don't show. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-428 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:05:11 +0000 brunotorres 428@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Marky, just after posting here I realized I forgot to convert the bbcodes. I'll try to make it shortly.<br /> About the announcements and sticky, I'll give a look too.<br /> But I still don't have a clue why posts don't appear on the admin. If you or anyone know why, please let me know. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-426 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:45:46 +0000 marky 426@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>One more quick note: the imported posts don't seem to appear in the admin interface, even after re-counting everything and such. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-411 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:04:53 +0000 RedSkunk 411@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>What about importing from PunBB?</p> <p>*sigh* </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-406 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:02:03 +0000 marky 406@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>OK, I gave the script a shot and it imported everything very nicely!</p> <p>The only snag is that the bbCodes weren't stripped or converted in the process, so many of the posts end up looking like gibberish. Also, sticky threads and announcements weren't converted as such, although that's less of an issue.</p> <p>I certainly hope there's enough demand for this script to justify adding these features. Otherwise, nice job! :-) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-370 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:01:07 +0000 marky 370@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>brunotorre, you're a life saver! I'll give the script a test shot tonight, and I'll let you know how it goes. :-) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-313 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:48:59 +0000 brunotorres 313@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I did this: <a href="http://brunotorres.net/unsorted/phpbb2bbpress.phps" rel="nofollow">http://brunotorres.net/unsorted/phpbb2bbpress.phps</a><br /> Worked fine to me, importing a phpBB database with about 30000 records, including users, metadata, topics and posts. It takes a lot of time to finish, but works.<br /> The code is a mess. I just finished doing this. Maybe I'll make it better, if there's people interested.<br /> You have to use it on a <strong>fresh</strong> instalation, since it'll delete any existing data.<br /> It was just tested by me and I can't ensure it'll work for anyone, but I'd like some feedback.<br /> Enjoy! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-296 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:41:46 +0000 mdawaffe 296@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You should always feel free to discuss this or anything eles on the mailing list: <a href="http://lists.bbpress.org/mailman/listinfo/bbdev" rel="nofollow">http://lists.bbpress.org/mailman/listinfo/bbdev</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-290 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:57:57 +0000 Endeavour 290@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I might do a converter for you. It'll depend on a couple of things. If someone "in charge" here gets in touch (leaves me an email addr to contact them on) I'll discuss with you. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-167 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:17:15 +0000 marky 167@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I second this request; bbPress is absolutely perfect, and I'd love to switch, but I have a six-year-old phpBB support forum filled with support topics for users to search through. What a shame it would be to lose all that info! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-96 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:15:45 +0000 spencerp 96@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for sharing that Detro, the thought saving the PMs is important as well, now if *only* there was a way to grab ALL of the informations from a phpBB board, that'd be awesome. </p> <p>If no one around here can do one up, I'll see if I can get *someone* I know, to do it.. ;) </p> <p>spencerp </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-72 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:10:00 +0000 Detro 72@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Here is a plugin for phpBB that help to export messages to XML.<br /> <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=281925" rel="nofollow">http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=281925</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-47 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:06:37 +0000 spencerp 47@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I just had a chat with Patrick on Live Messenger, the guy that runs <a href="http://phpbbhacks.com">phpBBhacks.com</a> , and he said, you'll mostly have to work directly with the database. </p> <p>Or atleast that's how he does it, he said. Also, I'm not sure if this would, or could possibly help in any way, but.. they wrote up this article: "<a href="http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=28022">Write a converter with the Unified Convertor System</a>."</p> <p>Of course, like anyone would do, they made it up for the people to convert <strong>from</strong> their current forum software, to their's, but, wasn't sure if maybe you devs could use it to benefit yourselves or not? </p> <p>Just wanted to throw this out onto the table for ya'll.. ;) I think it's great that bbPress made a official release finally.. and *hopefully* soon, I'll get to making themes for it. ;) </p> <p>spencerp</p> <p>/Sidenote quick: I had dealt with phpBB before, for a few good years, installed it for peoples, for money, and shot out a few themes too. Submitted them to the phpBBhacks.com site, and had patrick in the MSN mess list for a few years.. ;) =) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-12 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:32:19 +0000 matt 12@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>There are no importers yet. Does phpBB have any sort of export format or would we have to work directly with their DB? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-9 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:18:59 +0000 lisamac 9@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Halleleujah bbPress is getting some love! So now I want to bring in some client forums. Anyone know of any way to import the data from a phpBB db? Is such a thing possible? I really hope so. </p>