[medusa_112]

Its great idea to have sub forums.

[John James Jacoby]

@rickdlewis – You’ve got a lot going on there. Between potential problems with your phpBB migration, porting your phpBB users into the WP user tables, problems with WP integration and user roles/capabilities, and problems with BuddyPress trying to take ownership of your bbPress installation, there are a ton of places where fallout can occur.

First things first, do you have direct access to your database, either through phpMyAdmin, or another SQL interface of some kind?

[John James Jacoby]

@rickdlewis – You’ve got a lot going on there. Between potential problems with your phpBB migration, porting your phpBB users into the WP user tables, problems with WP integration and user roles/capabilities, and problems with BuddyPress trying to take ownership of your bbPress installation, there are a ton of places where fallout can occur.

First things first, do you have direct access to your database, either through phpMyAdmin, or another SQL interface of some kind?

[Rick Lewis]

Hey guys. I am having a heck of a time with getting BBpress setup and integrated with WP.

This is a MU install and both share the same database. I did pull the data into BBpress from phpbb and prior to doing the final step of WP integration things all work great. Forums , posts , topics, users all work.

I hit the wp integration using wp_ and now I am told I am not a user on the site. Can’t recover my password or anything. Can’t log in using the keymaster account I setup on install or any other account.

All the users are there in the database just fine but no one can log in. It’s like they are all invisible.

I want WP to be my main log in system not bbpress so I assumed integrating was the key to making that happen. I need the users from bbpress to be on the WP side as users and be able to log in and use both properly.

One more thing I guess to throw into the mix is, I do also use buddypress.

Looking for any help and advice.

Thanks.

[Rick Lewis]

I found this update which worked for me.

http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/downloads/list

[Rick Lewis]

I will second that this thing works. Not perfect but damn near close. Thanks to the person who created it and updated it!

[Rick Lewis]

I will second that this thing works. Not perfect but damn near close. Thanks to the person who created it and updated it!

[Rick Lewis]

just gave this a shot and got a general error. Said I had a syntax error in a certain line. Can not get passed that point and haven’t a clue how to correct it.

Tried once to go back and restart the process and when it came to the same point he says now I have a duplicate. Makes sense if it had already added some info to the database.

If anything has some ideas I would appreciate the help.

Thanks.

[[removed]]

I can confirm that plugin works like a charm. Unfortunately, it does not take avatars though.

[[removed]]

I can confirm that plugin works like a charm. Unfortunately, it does not take avatars though.

[Anonymous User 7670885]

http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/downloads/list

[Anonymous User 7670885]

http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/downloads/list

[pedrog]

I’d like to move my phpBB forum into a bbPress system? Is it doable? If so could you provide me with links?

Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous User 7670885]

Sorry for bump but is more important for me.

I’ve converted my smf to phpbb3 to bbpress and now i want try to convert a specific board (News Board: 650 Posts | 206 Topics) in WordPress article (with all replies). Is there any way to make this (is the opposite of this topic request)?

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I’ve a valid smf+phpbb3+bbpress database in my local webserver and i can try to convert to other board/script if is necessary – i require to convert only this board in wordpress and all the rest of forum can remain intact.

Thanks in advance, DarkWolf.

[Anonymous User 7670885]

Sorry for bump but is more important for me.

I’ve converted my smf to phpbb3 to bbpress and now i want try to convert a specific board (News Board: 650 Posts | 206 Topics) in WordPress article (with all replies). Is there any way to make this (is the opposite of this topic request)?

–

I’ve a valid smf+phpbb3+bbpress database in my local webserver and i can try to convert to other board/script if is necessary – i require to convert only this board in wordpress and all the rest of forum can remain intact.

Thanks in advance, DarkWolf.

[tepelstreel]

‘PS: I forgot to check this thread in case there were replies, because I automatically get an email from every other forum I belong to. Old habits die hard. Agora has an automatic emailing function built in, it’s not a plug in. ‘

What’s so bad about installing that plugin? I am also used to phpbb and I once tried o work with joomla. I have to say, that I like WP more as a CMS (alhough it is none) because I’m simply too stupid for the Joomla stuff, and I have difficulties setting up phpbb. I will definitely give bbpress a try, if having to set up my next forum.

[Celtic-Tyger]

PHPbb is driving me nuts.

Does bbpress allow multiple installs, to share one user table. Without corrupting and resetting forum permissions?

[Celtic-Tyger]

PHPbb is driving me nuts.

Does bbpress allow multiple installs, to share one user table. Without corrupting and resetting forum permissions?

[[removed]]

Hey all,

I was wondering if it’s possible to bypass the bbPress login/registration and just authorize users based on the usertable I have in my MediaWiki installation. I’ve been able to do this with phpBB and vBulletin, so I guess there should be a way to do this for bbPress, right?

Where would I start doing this? As far as I could see there’s no existing plugin for this. I see there’s an LDAP plugin though, so I could take that one and try to rewrite it to use a regular mysql database. Or are there better ways to achieve this?

Thanks!

NOTE: There are some plugins that let MediaWiki use your WordPress/bbPress database. What I’m looking for goes the other way round. I have MediaWiki, and I want bbPress to auth against it.

[d3rutat]

Thanks for this converter! I have managed to sucesfully convert a phpbb3.0.8 forum to a bbpress one, but one problem remains, how can i convert attachments as well?

My forum heavily depends on people attaching images, migrating to bbpress and losing attachments is like losing half the fun.

Any help?

[pikoy]

this is helpful.. thanks!! good stuff!! cheers!

[pikoy]

is this for real.. hope i could get this!

[xodeus]

Hi there. can this be done without installing phpbb3 as I’m also moving the forum to another location.

Steps I made:

1. Export phpbb3 SQL from the old location

2. Import phpbb3 SQL to the new location.

3. Install bbpress with the same db info where I imported the phpbb3 SQL.

4. Called the script from root folder of bbpress, but I get 500 Internal Server Error.

I can see that there are some hooks to phpbb3 root folder.

I don’t know what is being called there, but maybe I could define DB settings manually somehow?

define('IN_PHPBB', true);

$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : './';

$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);

include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);



// Start session management

$user->session_begin();

$auth->acl($user->data);

$user->setup();

So can this be done without phpbb3 installation?

[weAREmarshall]

Still a work in progress, we had to get it up ASAP, converted from phpBB.

http://www.herdhaven.com/forum/

Integrated with our WordPress blog

http://www.herdhaven.com

We’re playing with some stuff, trying to do some things with the forums, etc.

[copperblade]

Thanks for featuring this on bbshowcase.org. Since my users have decided to go with phpBB for now, I’m going to redirect the DEMO link on the kakumei-black project page to your demo.