[chrisella]

It worked for me going from phpBB3 3.0.9 to bbPress 2.1 (I’m using the developer version of bbPress)

and bar 5 orphaned topics for an unknown reason (5 out of ~10,000 isn’t bad) it worked perfectly.

[chrisella]

Heya

In the end I decided to give ForumConverter for a direct phpBB3 -> bbPress convert.

It worked flawlessly for me and converted everything without a single hiccup.

I was actually amazed as I was expecting to have to edit files, alter configs or manually sort some bits, but it did a very good job.

It’s called ForumConverter on the WP plugins download, I’d have a look if you need phpBB3->bbPress conversion now.

[chrisella]

mmm today I managed (successfully I believe) to use this script (with some edits) : https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-313

to convert my phpBB3 to bbPress v1.0, and then I used bbConverter to convert the bbPress v1.0 to v2.1

and all seems to have copied fine

one Issue I’m having is the passwords.

When I try and login with a user and the correct old password it continously fails .

It seems (after going through the code a bit and the database) that it’s looking for _bbc_class in the user meta table in this code but that isn’t there in my table atall.

/**

* Convert passwords from previous forum to wordpress.

*/

public function convert_pass()

{

global $wpdb;

$username = $_POST;

if( $username != ” )

{

$row = $wpdb->get_row( ‘SELECT * FROM ‘ . $wpdb->users .

‘ INNER JOIN ‘ . $wpdb->usermeta . ‘ ON user_id = ID ‘ .

‘ WHERE meta_key = “_bbc_class” AND user_login = “‘ . $username . ‘” LIMIT 1’ );

if( $row )

{

$converter = newBBConverter( $row->meta_value );

$converter->translate_pass( $username, $_POST );

}

}

}

Any ideas ?

I know this is quite vague so I can give any more details if needed.

Cheers

[chrisella]

Thank you Adam for the work that you do.

This update you mention, would it happen to contain a converter for phpBB to bbpress as well (keeping fingers on both hands tightly crossed and holding my breath!)?

I second the good sentiments here and also desperately hope that a phpbb converter is on the horizon too.