bbConverter FAQ/Known Issues 1.3 phpbb – bbpress
– Post URL’s (**From post above this post)
The URL’s from phpbb I thought were not getting migrated correctly when in fact they are, it is just that phpbb in its table lists the URL’s rather oddly. When looking at URL’s in the raw tables of phpbb they are in the following format:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://example.com">http://example.com<!-- m --></a>
Need to strip the <!– m –> & ‘ class=”postlink”‘ before conversion either with bbconverter or firstly converting the links in phpbb before conversion
– Poster IP Address is not migrated.
see this post.
– Images and Attachments (and smilies) are not migrated.
see this post.
– Existing Users
If a username already exists in wp_users the imported user will be named imported_username eg. If ‘john’ already exists will import as ‘imported_john’
– User Post Counts are not imported
When viewing /wp-admin/users.php each user post count is ‘0’
Ideally adding support to bbPress Core /wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-recount would fix that.
(I couldn’t find where WP/BBP is keeping the total post count for a user though it is stored in phpbb_users user_posts)
– Ophaned/Deleted User Posts:
If the user has been deleted from phpbb when bbConverter runs these posts will be imported into bbPress as userid ‘1’ (i.e. ‘Admin’)
– Time Zone
Ensure you have your WP install is set to the same Time Zone as phpbb to get correct post times
– User Profile data AIM & YahooIM fields are migrated by Jabber is not
add the following code for ‘jabber’ to ‘/** User Section **********’ of phpbb.php script below aim/yim
<br />
// User jabber.<br />
$this->field_map[] = array(<br />
'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'user_jabber',<br />
'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => 'jabber'<br />
);<br />
– ‘Quotes’
I haven’t fully looked into how quote behavior works just yet, needless to say a workaround of sorts needs to be found for this.
– Additional User Profile fields
Ideally would like to import phpbb_users user_from (phpbb User Localtion) field to wp_usermeta description (Thus eg. Melbourne, Australia is added to the WP user BIO). Unless of course there is a funky way to import ‘User Location'(user_from), ‘Signatures'(user_sig), ‘occupation'(user_occ) & ‘interests'(user_interests) all together into WP Bio?
– User Stuff not migrated (No big deal IMHO)
User Subscribed Post, Favorite, Bookmarks, Private Messages, Rank
(I dont see much of that as a very big issue in my case, users can just start this stuff from scratch)
And that’s about all I have for now… Any ideas or other workarounds would all be well received and again thanks guys for this plugin and hope that now phpbb is there I can help contribute something back.
Cheers,
Stephen
