@Durelle You will need to provide much more detailed information to help you with this.
What version of phpBB are you importing from?
At what step did the conversion fail?
Did it complete and users just cannot login?
What are all the option values you used to perform the import? (ie. Did you check the ‘Convert Users’ field?)
I won’t be much help with the error.
This page describing the bbPress core implies that there are notes on how to import from vBulletin, stating:
> Import Forums
>
> Published on July 3rd, 2012 by netweb Supported Platforms bbPress v1.x
> phpBB v.3.x (For Invision or vBulletin see notes below.)
But there are no “notes below” that reference vBulletin. Does bbPress support vBulletin import?
ah im on 2.1.2 but the phpbb conversion doenst work, i imported all the tables and topics, that was fine, but users got a php error and t didn’t convert.
The download link is for the 2.1 branch. If you follow the link it will take you to the plugin page where you can download 2.1.2. You can also install it directly through WordPress I find much easier.
I see here that it says 2.1.2 has been released, but i dont see it updated on the download page, i need this update cause i need to IMPORT my phpBB forum and 2.1 had errors when trying to import User Passwords
So I changed default page.php to be fullwidth, but I would like to know hot to force bbpress to use certain wp page template.
Also I am really disappointed there is no separator for forums, like it is in phpbb… I would like to split my forums to groups (movies, series, games…) I dont think it would be so hard to include this option in one of next updates.
Thanks.
This is a known issue for phpBB & Invision forums and the way it looks at the BBCode as its being imported, we are hoping to get this fixed for bbPress 2.2.
You can see more details on the problems here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1884
2.12 did not resolve this issue??
but i resolved it by changing the name of the file phpBB.php to Phpbb.php in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/converters
I have converted from phpBB to bbpress with luck.
But everytime my forum converted users want to login they get this error:
Warning: require_once(bbp-converter.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/surfogki/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-user-functions.php on line 1466
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘bbp-converter.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/surfogki/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-user-functions.php on line 1466
Normal made users can login as normal. how do i fix this?
For those of you familiar with phpbb forums, a very liked feature is the ability to show your unread posts, and also to skip to the last unread reply in that thread.
I have spoken to Pippin, from http://pippinsplugins.com, who estimates that to create a plugin to include these features on bbpress will cost between $350 and $600.
Now my website, which will have a forum migrated to it soon, will require these features, however it is only a hobby website 🙁
So I’m asking bbpress forum owners out there, do you want this plugin? And if yes, would you be willing to contribute to the cost?
Tanya 🙂
Found the fix on this site, deep in the Tracking discussion. Adding bbp_admin(); (courtesy of xiosen) did the trick, like this:
// Setup admin (to include converter)
require_once( bbpress()->plugin_dir . 'bbp-admin/bbp-admin.php' );
bbp_admin();
// Convert password
require_once( bbpress()->admin->admin_dir . 'bbp-converter.php' );
require_once( bbpress()->admin->admin_dir . 'converters/' . $row->meta_value . '.php' );
Many thanks,
nick
So…. I created a new clean phpBB install, imported the data into phppBB, installed WordPress & bbPress and imported from phpBB.
Everything looks fine to me…. I wish I could find something, we know there is something wrong!
I’ll have another look in the morning with a fresh par of eyes.
Thanks for persisting and trying to help us find the problem.
Cheers,
Stephen
I feel like a caveman in a spaceship with this SQL stuff.. ignore my worries about the logic, I have now sent netweb the replies row dumps. Realizing I can do “export, Dump some row(s), Number of rows: 1, Row to begin at: 470, View output as text” helped A LOT! Farewell to uncertainty.
Damn, I just realized phpmyadmin’s browsing interface was confusing me and I was giving netweb the wrong topic! Now I have sent him the correct one + the first post.
Yes, I’m trying to locate some blocking replies to send to netweb for testing.
JJJ: does this logic mean it skips the first post in topic: LEFT JOIN phpbb_topics AS topics USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id != topics.topic_first_post_id LIMIT 470, 1
I think if this is true, I can’t just look at my phpbb_post row 470 in phpmyadmin, but would have to run a modified query to display the exact offending post.
Thanks for checking into this. Will be nice to get this figured out.
I’ve looked at the data you sent me and each value for each field is a valid field value/type!
I can import that data into a phpBB install, I can then import that data to bbPress!
I got nothing at the moment as to what is causing the import to stop, Ill try and gather some more sample data/databases to debug the issue.
For now if you get stuck try ‘bbp_converter_start by 1’
Ok restarting my web server did the trick and now it continues with the replies.
Sent you an email. The next stop was with replies, LIMIT 470. Managed to skip it. Left it running over night. When I came to check it, it had stalled at LIMIT 6874 and had outputted a huge line of dashes. I pressed stop and went to bump the bbp_converter_start. “Starting conversion” it said and started to output more dashes without actually doing anything.
If you can give me confirmation that 470 and 6874 mean row numbers in phpbb_posts, I will send those rows to you. But then I will wait for an update to bbPress with better debugging, because I can’t go doing conversions 1 row at a time for weeks on end hoping it won’t crash.
Drop me an email the data and your contact info and I will look at it and get back to.
Can you contact me privately?
To add to my debugging wish, would be nice to have the specific info even when running with more than 1 row at a time.
Can you post a copy of that posts SQL data please so we can have a look at that data to improve the bbPress phpBB importer.
660 does not imply the topic_id, but the row number. I finally managed to pinpoint the correct offending topic. Having to have to deal with row numbers, I was a bit confused about which topic I have to skip. There really should be some debugging feature that would display the exact topic_id or any first (=most important) field in a given table.
First I deleted a couple of topics (not the right ones) in phpBB. Then when it got stuck again, I realized which of them was the offender. Then I used the trick of bumping the value in bbp_converter_start by 1 and pressing Start to restart the conversion from where it left off.
The topic as I see it does not contain anything out of the ordinary: it’s by an admin, so his name is colored red. But otherwise the fields are fine.
- Open phpMyAdmin
- Open you phpBB database
- Click ‘browse’ on the ‘_topics’ table
- In the ‘topic_id’ field you will see the topic_id
- Navigate to page xyz where you will see a topic_id of 660
Have a good look at all the fields (horizontal list) of the data around that range and compare it to the previous 10 and next 10 topic_ids (i.e. topic_id 650-670)
Is there any major differences between the rows and fields of the posts besides topic title etc, is a particular topic_id row missing data that is in every other topic_id but not in that particular topic_id
