[adampembs]

I’ve just done a phpbb conversion to bbpress. To import the attachments, I used ChatGPT. It feels like an ideal candidate for a premium version of bbpress, one I would be willing to pay for. It’s a hobby site with little income. I did raise £200 through donations so that indicates my budget. Might be worth it if enough people contributed.
The phpbb importer largely worked well, but I had to roll the site back to a previous PHP version as it doesn’t work with the current version of PHP.

[John James Jacoby]

It works the same, with an invisible twist – since you asked 🤣

In theory, for phpBB (and a few other platforms) you don’t *need* to keep your old forum database around anymore to help handle the password conversion – we do it straight from our converted temporary usermeta stash. This was always on the roadmap to finish up, I just never got around to it until now 😆

[John James Jacoby]

phpBB import is fixed in 2.6.18.

[John James Jacoby]

Sorry to hear about all of that.

I’ve fixed the phpBB importer, and I’m quickly auditing the other importers for similar problems.

See: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3683

2.6.18 will include these fixes.

[Danishsard]

This time, the import worked!
Here’s what I did:
1. Deleted the phpBB search index.
2. Added those weird AOL accounts, etc. (as mentioned in the moderator’s links)—I’m not sure if that mattered, as I did several things at once.
3. Deleted (reset) the previous import in the forum tool options.
4. Deleted all guest posts on the forum (i.e., posts by people without accounts).

[Robin W]

ok, sorry I don’t know phpbb and the convertor was written some time ago by someone who no longer is actively involved in bbpress.

Have a look through these

Problems when converting from phpBB to bbPress

“No users to import” when attempting to import from latest phpBB

[Robin W]

Note sure if this issue is covered in this article

phpBB

[Danishsard]

I’m trying to import everything from a phpBB forum to bbPress, but it’s not working. Users aren’t being transferred, and the posts that do get moved (I’m not sure if it’s all of them) lack an assigned author. The process keeps getting stuck in a loop at step 16 due to an error. In the end, some topics appear on the forum (maybe all of them, maybe not—I can’t tell), but there are no actual users; the posts look as if they were written by guests, even though they have various names attached. The importer never finishes; it just stays stuck on step 16, endlessly processing the same thing.

Is there any way to fix this problem?

[Robin W]

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.

[yosmc]

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!

[waazdakka]

Oh wow thanks for the update, saved me a LOT of time.

For those who are wondering how to achieve that, you have to go to the phpbb administration settings > members and groups > custom profile fields, and add phpbb_aol / phpbb_wlm etc. as a simple text field.

Just relaunched the importer, I hope it will not loop at step 8 again…

[firebird131]

hi,
I’m trying to import a forum from phpbb but it’s stuck at step 8. See screenshot
wp version 6.6.2

[alembiq]

We had a PHPBB many years ago, which we migrated to bbPress around four years ago, but it seems some flags remained in the database for the whole time, flags like (_bbp_class, _bbp_old_user_id, _bbp_password, _bbp_phpbb_user_avatar, _bbp_phpbb_user_sig). They might be needed; I have no idea.

But after the last update of WP and all the plugins, all the migrated users started to get an error message instead of being able to log in:
`
{“success”:false,”data”:[{“code”:”bbp_converter_db_connection_failed”,”message”:”Database connection failed”}]}
`
After some debugging and searching, I found https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3419#no0 and tried to remove _bbp_class, which helped 🙂

I just needed to wipe the SQLite Object Cache because it kept the old data. It might happen to someone else in the future, I don’t know. I don’t know if you can somehow influence that this metadata is not stored there or something else. But at least you have the information that it might happen.

[insertkoins]

Looks like the included converter doesn’t work for 3.3, or am I wrong? If not, when can I expect an update? Need this desperately!

[Robin W]

ok, this site is support for bbpress.

phpBB is entirely different software

https://www.phpbb.com/

[alombredugrandarbre]

Bonjour,
Je n’ai pas trouvé l’objet de mon problème sur le forum et j’espère ne pas faire de doublon. Dans le cas contraire veuillez m’excuser.

Je débute en tant que modératrice sur WordPress et j’ai du mettre à jour le php de mon site (hébergé sur IONOS et passé de 5.6 à 8.1). Tout fonctionne bien sur l’interface WordPress et sur le site (http://alombredugrandarbre.com/) mais un message d’erreur m’empêche d’accéder à la page du forum (http://alombredugrandarbre.com/forum/).

J’ai essayé toutes les étapes de résolution de problème suggérées au début de ce sujet et rien n’a fonctionné. Auriez-vous une idée pour m’aider s’il vous plait ?
Cordialement,

[grownow]

bbPress is a popular forum software that is designed to integrate seamlessly with WordPress. While it is primarily intended to be used as a WordPress plugin, it is technically possible to install bbPress without WordPress. However, this is not a recommended or officially supported use case.

bbPress relies on various WordPress functions, libraries, and database tables to function properly. Therefore, attempting to install bbPress as a standalone application without WordPress may lead to compatibility issues and limited functionality.

Regarding the documentation for setting up bbPress without WordPress, it’s important to note that the official bbPress documentation primarily focuses on its usage as a WordPress plugin. Since installing bbPress without WordPress is not the recommended approach, there may not be official documentation specifically addressing this scenario.

If you still want to proceed with installing bbPress without WordPress, you can try the following general steps:

Download bbPress: Visit the official bbPress website (https://bbpress.org/) and download the latest version of bbPress.

Set up a web server: Install and configure a web server (such as Apache or Nginx) on your server or local machine.

Set up PHP: Install PHP and configure it to work with your web server.

Set up a MySQL database: Install and configure a MySQL database server. You will need to create a new database for bbPress and a user with appropriate privileges.

Create the necessary directories: Create a directory on your server or local machine where you want to install bbPress.

Extract bbPress: Extract the contents of the bbPress download package into the directory you created.

Configure bbPress: Open the config.php file located in the bbPress directory and modify the database connection settings to match your MySQL setup.

Set up the necessary tables: bbPress requires specific database tables to function correctly. You may need to manually create these tables using MySQL commands or import an existing schema if available.

Configure your web server: Set up the necessary configuration directives in your web server to point to the bbPress installation directory.

Access bbPress: Once you’ve completed the above steps, you should be able to access bbPress by visiting the appropriate URL in your web browser.

It’s important to note that this process may require advanced technical knowledge and troubleshooting skills. Since this is not the intended use case for bbPress, you may encounter various compatibility issues or limitations along the way.

If you’re looking to create a standalone forum application, there are other forum software options available that are specifically designed to work independently without relying on WordPress, such as phpBB or Discourse. It may be more suitable to explore those alternatives for your needs.

[bertroode]

We encountered a severe problem. A couple of weeks ago we converted our PHPBB forum to bbPress.
The converted forum was doing all functions as expected. Since three days ago users who where already member on the PHPBB forum cannot login after renewing their password when they donot spell the nice-name correctly.
Then they get the message: Warning: register_shutdown_function(): Invalid shutdown callback ‘BBP_Converter_DB::__destruct’ passed in E:\wamp64_bert\www\forum\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\classes\class-bbp-converter-db.php on line 35
So far we have traced that it must have something to do with the information stored in the table usermeta with meta_key ‘_bbp_class’. When we remove that record the user can login as expected.

The only change to the systems has been the update of WordPress. May be that has something to do with it. Our knowledge of debuging is rather limited so we need urgent advice on how to fix this problem.
We have seen that similar problems have been reported in the past but no solution other then removing and reentering the user was mentioned. That is not a reel solution because the orignal name of the author is lost.

Wo can provide us a solution or hint to solve our problem.

Best regards,
Bert

[admiraljuicy]

Hi, new to BBpress.

I’ve noticed that there aren’t a lot of options regrading the customization of the forum, at least on the front end and you need to install additional plugins if you want to get more functionality or make things simpler to customize.

My question is, are there any plugins that allow me to have features that are commonplace in other forum software, like who is online at the bottom, different icons for new/unread forums/posts.

Essentially, I want to know what plugins are pretty much must haves for BBpress, I already have the BB style pack plugin which has helped immensely, but it’s still not enough. If there’s a tutorial out there to get all of the customization I’m after than I’d highly appreciate the help as well.

I am using the latest version of wordpress and BBpress.
The forum in question: https://sonic-city.net/forum/

Thanks in advance

[animoosiac]

I know this is a pretty dead thread but as I recently encountered this I thought I would let people know my solution.

I discovered that the import tool expects certain fields to exist in the profile_fields_data or phpbb. In my case I was missing pf_phpbb_aol, pf_phpbb_wlm, pf_phpbb_googleplus.

I added each of these columns and the system started processing users without a problem.

[kazemguru]

@Ricsca2 You made my day!
It worked also for importing PHPBB 3.x to BBpress
Thank you

[Hammy Havoc]

Hi Robin!

Thank you very much for the reply, really appreciate it. :- )

Around two years ago, I migrated from phpBB to bbPress, and it works great, just get this error via email (via Jetpack) 1-2 times per day around the same time each day. There shouldn’t be any kind of conversion going on anymore. Once migrated, you don’t need it anymore, right? Is there any way to disable it from running?

[Hammy Havoc]

Hi,

I’m receiving this error 1-2 times per day like clockwork:

Current plugin: bbPress (version 2.6.9)
PHP version 8.1.6
Error Details
=============
An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 33 of the file /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/classes/class-bbp-converter-db.php. Error message: Uncaught TypeError: register_shutdown_function(): Argument #1 ($callback) must be a valid callback, class BBP_Converter_DB does not have a method "__destruct" in /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/classes/class-bbp-converter-db.php:33
Stack trace:
#0 /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/classes/class-bbp-converter-db.php(33): register_shutdown_function(Array)
#1 /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/classes/class-bbp-converter-base.php(150): BBP_Converter_DB->__construct('site_db', '&9Ah58fa', 'site_db', 'localhost')
#2 /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/classes/class-bbp-converter-base.php(104): BBP_Converter_Base->init()
#3 /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php(24): BBP_Converter_Base->__construct()
#4 /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/tools/converter.php(94): phpBB->__construct()
#5 /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/users/functions.php(982): bbp_new_converter('phpBB')
#6 /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(307): bbp_user_maybe_convert_pass('')
#7 /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(331): WP_Hook->apply_filters('', Array)
#8 /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(474): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
#9 /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/sub-actions.php(265): do_action('bbp_login_form_...')
#10 /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(307): bbp_login_form_login('')
#11 /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(331): WP_Hook->apply_filters('', Array)
#12 /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(474): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
#13 /home/site/public_html/wp-login.php(518): do_action('login_form_logi...')
#14
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[craigcotner]

I totally get that you are not an author… Your bbp Style Pack is the first plugin I added to my install.

My site is a gathering of sports fans. So we have a lot of threads that get very big. I do a few things since I just moved over from a phpBB board. I first took some topics that were several years old and had thousands of replies and first split them up. Only keeping the newer posts. Then took the older thread and put it in a holding area. Then I break them down in to smaller pieces so I can delete them. This is the part that is taking forever to do.

This is sort of a first time clean up of the old phpBB board after I imported it to bbPress. So once I get through that, I can see a time where I am not deleting old threads as much.

But for the long haul, I can see where I would regularly close threads and want to delete them. So I like how I can just put topics in a “holding” forum that only I can see. Then if you have a way through your plugin that I can enter a topic ID for deletion would work perfect!

[spanky11]

I would pay as well so long as the job were done right. If anyone is interested let me know. Both phpbb and bbpress are vanilla.

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