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Problems when converting from phpBB to bbPress

  • @yosmc

    Participant

    1 week, 6 days ago

    Hi all,

    I’ve been doing a test run today to import my old phpBB board to bbpress, and it worked surprisingly well (as in: the whole process finished without hanging).

    In the end, though, I do have a number of problems, and I was wondering if anyone doing a similar import was able to solve them.

    – The old board has thousands of registered users (many of them spammers :/ ), and I didn’t want to clutter my WordPress install with all those accounts, especially since it’s a multisite install and I’m mainly migrating the board for archiving purposes. So I didn’t check the “import user accounts” box, but now all user names are just “Anonymous”. Any way to migrate the user names without the accounts?

    – It seems like quoted posts are broken, as the “bbcode_quote” tag isn’t applied where it should be.

    – Smilies aren’t imported properly. The relative path to the smilies is lost, and when there’s more than one smiley in a row, only the first one has an image tag.

    – [img] tags aren’t being properly converted either. Or rather the conversion seems to work ok, but after the actual link, the [img] code, which bbpress can’t read, is retained for some reason.

    – Like I said, overall conversion seemed to work well, but cluttered the error log with hundreds of these messages:

    PHP Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/parser.php on line 1289

    Anything to worry about?

    – I understand that no attachments are imported by default, but maybe someone found a workaround?

    Thanks!

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  • @robin-w

    Moderator

    1 week, 3 days ago

    On the users, bbpress hooks to user_id’s, so in the database you would have a topic/reply author just held in the database as for instance 27, and then bbpress looks up the nicename for that in the user table, so no user in the table, then no name to display.

    On import with no ‘import users’ if the username does not exist it puts it as 0, and then it is displayed as ‘anonymous’

    So whist everything is possible if you can write code or know someone who can, there is no easy way to import usernames, as you would need to amend both the import code and the username display code.

    I have no experience of phpBB, so cannot comment on the other aspects. The importer was written some time ago by someone who no longer is actively involved in bbpress.

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