If you look at the phpBB importer it has the callback_html and parses a bunch or regular expressions to manipulate the previous BBCode or HTML strings, will that work for you?
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php#L934
Awesome 🙂
Just to add that the standard Drupal forums module for Drupal 7 was included in bbPress 2.5, I’m not sure if there is anything in that that you may not have in your Drupal 6.
Also, two of the importers SMF and phpBB have some cool new things for the upcoming bbPress 2.6, importing favourites, subscriptions, anonymous topics/replies/posts, you may want to have a look there to see if they help in importing more data from Drupal
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/SMF.php
DLParticipant
Since there is not a converter listed for Dizkus (Postnuke/Zikula forum module) I was wondering if anyone else had built one?
Dizkus was originally based on phpBB and the converter listed for phpBB does partially work when used against a Dizkus database.
If it hasn’t been done before is there anyone here willing to do it for a fee? I would donate the new converter back to the project.
Is it possible to install bbPress 2.6 to import a phpBB 3.1 and then downgrade bbPress to stable 2.5.8 (if necessary)?
Thanks
Martin
I have searched the forum and can’t find anywhere to find the BBPRESS importer. I have an old PHPBB forum that I’d love to move over to my brand new BBPRESS one but eveyr post says the importer is under TOOLS>IMPORT and I don’t see that listed. Am I missing a plugin? Can I get the steps listed?
Good day,
do you know when BBPress 2.6 is released with the improved import for phpBB 3.1-Forums?
Thanks in advance,
Martin
I have a forum with 15,426 threads and 217,103 responses. After much work, I managed to do the import from the phpBB but can not restore the links between topics and answers. When I try to use the tool “Recalculate the position of each reply”, the script runs for a long time, and then complains about lack of memory. I made a mirror server on my machine, I put php configurations with large memory values (4GB) and timeout (30000s), and yet the system can not run the script. Someone would have any suggestions?
ok, so if you click the image, you get to the forums.
so if the url is
http://fubar-alliance.com/commo/channel/test/
the forums work.
Since you are already using the forums slug for your phpbb software, what is it set to in dashboard>settings>forums, and if you set that correctly it should all work
Hello,
Just started to investigate using bbPress and migrate over from phpBB.
After the migration I noticed that all my posts were from the username “imported_Glenn”. I feel that this was due to the user “Glenn” already existing. No one else inherited the suffix.
Is there a way I can easily replace the author name from “imported_Glenn” with “Glenn”?
I’m reasonable with SQL.
Thanks!
Glenn.
Make sure your using the correct database prefix, most phpBB tables will be named something like phpbb_posts, in that case the database prefix is phpbb_
If you are importing from phpBB 3.1 then you can test the new importer via our bbPress “development version” aka bbPress 2.6 alpha, theres some new import improvements, you can get this from the following page or direct link:
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/
• https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip
@excandesco The Xenforo import does NOT convert passwords
(I think its only bbPress 1.x, SMF, phpBB and vBulletin that convert passwords at this stage)
Are you using phpBB 3 or phpBB 3.1? The changed happened between the two it would appear. 3.1 support is on the horizon, but there’s no specific release date at the moment.
I’ve noticed that this topic is a year and change old but it concerns the phpbb importer. My brief review of the fields would seem to indicate that field names have changed and it’s why I have generated the errors below. There is no forum_topics field and the topics in phpbb3 have their own table and are assigned to a forum using topics.forum_id. I don’t know what the phpbb 2 database schema but apparently it is different.
Nick – were you ever able to get it to work or did you have to outsource the work? It would probably be a good idea for WordPress to let users know as to the compatibility of the converter with the version of phpBB currently able to be converted. Thanks for any insights.
Imported phpBB, where are the forums?
Clicked: Purge all information from a previously attempted import
Use this if an import failed and you want to remove that incomplete data.
Tried to start again. That deleted all the replies. This seems to be the issue:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘forums.forum_topics’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_topics,convert(forums.forum_posts USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_posts,convert(forums.forum_topics_real USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_topics_real,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100
If we’re talking about the phpbb database, this is because forum_topics doesn’t exist in the phpbb datatabase. Perhaps it did in version 2 but I don’t see that being the case in version 3. As a result, I’m wondering if anyone has successfully converted any phpbb 3 forums.
Constant errors. No users to convert. No forums to convert. Kicks me into repair but nothing to repair. Ran it again and got:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘topics.topic_replies’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(topics.topic_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_id,convert(topics.topic_replies USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_replies,convert(topics.topic_replies_real USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_replies_real,convert(topics.forum_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_id,convert(topics.topic_poster USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_poster,convert(posts.poster_ip USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_ip,convert(posts.post_text USING “utf8mb4”) AS post_text,convert(topics.topic_title USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_title,convert(topics.topic_status USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_status,convert(topics.topic_type USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_type,convert(topics.topic_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_time,convert(topics.topic_last_post_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS topic_last_post_time FROM phpbb_topics AS topics INNER JOIN phpbb_posts AS posts USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id = topics.topic_first_post_id LIMIT 0, 100
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
So I look at the database and the importer imported all replies, no forums and no topics, leaving us with about 7,000 replies without a forum or a topic. This is not optimal to say the least. Does the phpBB importer still work?
Hi,
I want forum looking like phpbb, example below. Where I marked the categories and forums must look like.
I trying to detect categories with this code:
<?php $q_meta_forums1 = array( 'meta_key' => '_bbp_forum_type', 'meta_value' => 'category'); ?>
<?php $categories_q = new WP_Query( $q_meta_forums1 ); ?>
But $categories_q returns nothing. It’s the main problem for now.
So, then I want in loop-forums.php with code above build categories structure and in ‘while’ cycle make another one which will be show sub-forums of categories.
So I imported phpBB, ran the fixes and recounts after and am wondering… where are the forums? I was assuming they would be automatically created from the import. I don’t see anything in the Forums area of the control panel although the mysql script seems to appear to have run. The instructions are unclear. Thank you all in advance.
and i dev version have error even though the prefix is standardized and previously worked (phpbb_)
Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘forums.forum_topics_approved’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics_approved USING “utf8”) AS forum_topics_approved,convert(forums.forum_posts_approved USING “utf8”) AS forum_posts_approved,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING “utf8”) AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING “utf8”) AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING “utf8”) AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100
No forums to convert
Starting Conversio
SELECT * FROM phpbb_topics WHERE phpbb_topics.topic_id > 1600 AND phpbb_topics.topic_id < 1699
– ok, I can delete error topic
– so I delete all 1600-1699? or 1600-1698
but what SQL i for: “Converting replies (1670 – 1670)” ?
Hello,
PHPBB3 -> bbPress
I have a forum on PhpBB3 which consists of: 640MB = 60 departments for, 10k threads, 200tyĹ› posts, 10k active users
Trying to restore them on my own computer (localhost): Core i5, 4GB RAM, SSD disc
I struggle with this for four days …
Restoration of the entire board is not possible at the moment because “jams” restore some different times
For now, as a strategy for checking that departments can be restored without problems and which do not
1.
Most often it gets me imports (as if the script had stopped working, and just circle spins still)
Eg. Stood in place, “Converting topics (1400 – 1499)” and here I have a question how to find out where it is and what posts you referring to? so that he can even remove them to trial lasted else?
2.
Is it possible przyww parts of the entire board? eg. selected areas?
For now I removed from the base sections of leaving only one and make copies of the database files from a folder (and so for all) so I can restore (and at least divide the forum into smaller pieces).
And whether the use of “Repair Forum” connect sections of the forums and topics? because from what I can see by combining two divisions separately it is not quite work out (for one department indicates a value of 0, although the themes and opdpwiedzi there are)
PS. Php.ini settings and the my.ini for me contribute nothing because virtually all the RAM and CPU are hardly used during import
Hi,
I remember that people found this one a very nice child theme that was going towards phpBB : http://www.epicwebs.co.uk/bbpress-tutorials/bbpress-starter-theme/
Have a look if it can help, otherwise just get back here.
Pascal.
Dear all,
I am trying to achive similar look at forum listing as they are on phpbb forums:
I found plugin that add a line at forum tittle which are unread by the user,and they are marked with one blue vertical stripe. But that isn’t what I was looking for. I would be very happy if some one will help my problem.
1.I would like to add an icon beside the name of subforum and the forum name must me like on the picture like just a tittle and look seperated from subforms.
2.Secondly after the 1. point I would like to create a unread/read diffrent icon like if the subform is unread the icon would be green if it is read the icon would be green.
I know the whole point is in style.css but any help or basics steps will be helpfull.
Thanks for any link, code, plugin, style.css, etc.
Br Nejc
I recently imported a phpBB forum to bbpress. All went well.
The only issue is bbpress is now sending out notification emails for all mentions from the beginning of time. My forum is about 7 years old and has around half a million posts.
Thats a lot of notification emails, and a lot of potential spam.
How can I fix this? I still want new notifications for mentions going out – just not those from before the import. I’m happy to run a mysql query that will mark all notifications emails as being already sent out for each member through to now – if there is a way to do that????!!!
