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?

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.

function fix_post_position() {
global $bbdb;
$get_topics = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->topics ORDER BY topic_start_time ASC");
foreach( $get_topics as $get_topic ) {
$get_posttopic = $get_topic->topic_id;
$postorder = 1;
$get_posts = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->posts WHERE topic_id = '$get_posttopic' AND post_position = '1' ORDER BY post_time ASC");
foreach( $get_posts as $get_post ) {
echo "UPDATE bb_posts SET post_position = ";
echo $postorder++;
echo " WHERE topic_id = ";
echo $get_post->topic_id;
echo " AND post_id = ";
echo $get_post->post_id;
echo " ;";
echo '<br/>';
}
} }

echo fix_post_position in your template file and copy the sql query to your database

add this to function.php in your template file

function fix_topicslug() {
global $bbdb;
$get_topics = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->topics WHERE topic_slug='' ");
foreach( $get_topics as $get_topic ) {
$slug_fix = bb_slug_sanitize( wp_specialchars_decode($get_topic->topic_title));
$topic_id = $get_topic->topic_id;
$bbdb->query("UPDATE $bbdb->topics SET topic_slug= '$slug_fix' WHERE topic_id = '$topic_id' ;");
}
}

and echo fix_topicslug in header. cek your database, and dont forget to remove the above code if you already finish.
my problem now the post_position is broken after convert to bbpress (all post is position 1) any fix ?

FIND (on or around lines 193 and 194 of the original script)
$forum_name = $row['forum_name'];
$forum_desc = $row['forum_desc'];

CHANGE TO (adding the addslashes() function)
$forum_name = addslashes($row['forum_name']);
$forum_desc = addslashes($row['forum_desc']);

And that should resolve most of the complaints I've seen here about the conversion failing.