[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

The very, very first link in this thread (where it says download ‘here’) works:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/wmnkhayal/files/phpbb3tobbpress%20converter.tar.gz

but that’s the version without any fixes

[The DK]

Hi All, very interested in a phpbb3 to bbpress converter. Have searched all over and I keep getting linked back to this post. Any updates?

[George Hahn]

What is with the blank page??!!@#$%??? Whenever the bb-config.php file is created (with the correct db name/user/pw), the installation crashes. After successfully installing numerous wordPress blogs, phpBB bulletin boards – all on the same server with the same settings – this is the ONLY installation that has given me such a problem on the install.

[Josh Leuze]

It looks like the original poster’s link still works Adam:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/wmnkhayal/files/phpbb3tobbpress%20converter.tar.gz

Maybe it was a temporary outage?

[brightcoconut]

There was a post on page 2 that said the script was no longer downloadable… does anyone know how to get a hold of it now? (I tried all the links in this thread, but none of them worked.)

[Fantastic Leman]

Thank you very much for your comment, Olaf.

Just to be precise, I am happy to host any other PHP scripts as well (even competitors like phpBB and SMF), so I can also do buddypress & wordpress.

It’s just that I love bbPress best, and am emphasizing it more than other PHP systems. bbPress is really miraculously beautiful.

[chubsg]

Hi,

I have an existing phpbb2 forum and was hoping to migrate the existing data into bbPress, followed by integration to WordPress MU. Here’s the steps i’ve done so far:

1. installed a fresh copy of bbPress 1.0.2

2. downloaded phpbb2bbpress converter from http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/

3. ammended the necessary stuff inside the file and ran the script

4. installed WordPress MU

I was comparing the bb_ and wp_ tables and would like to know:

1. can i simply insert into wp_usermeta, (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) from bb_usermeta table where the meta_key = bb_capabilities because it looks safer than just replacing wp_usermeta with bb_usermeta due to the existing entries in wp_usermeta which i’m unsure of their usage?

2. it also seems that i should insert all the necessary values from bb_users table to wp_users table because wp_users has more columns

are there anything else database-wise i need to do?

After the above i know i need to install a bbpress-integration.php into WordPress MU and do some settings on both bbPress and WordPress MU settings/configs. Are there any other steps i’m missing out?

I would really appreciate any help on this

[plunk]

Hi

Has anyone used the bbPM system that was developed by Nightgunner?

If not can you suggest another one?

I need a PM system where users can interact with one another to send PMs and also attachments like photos.

I haven’t tried BBpress before…the other solution is phpbb3 and that has a good one but it is a lot of work to install it.

Thanks

[eclipsenow]

because every second post I read here seems to be trouble with integration not working out, and an enormous headache.

I just want it all to be easy. I want bbsync to work again, but like so many 3rd party things, it died. That’s why I’m having trouble committing to any CMS, one does XYZ but not ABC, requiring a plug in (that could die), the other does ABC but not XYZ which is again a 3rd party plug-in, which again could die.

I really want one software, a community portal. It has to have a nice home page, a nice blog, and a nice forum community side to it.

I want all the features of each to be CORE (no vital 3rd party functions dying) and already installed, “out of the box”. (EG: BBpress being “fully loaded” like SMF and phpbb3. Just click boxes for the functions you want to work!)

I want a “bbsync” styled function to be core. EG: Each blog article submitted by our expert authors would be automatically copied across to a forum and auto-linked to the forum.

EG: At the bottom it would say “If you enjoyed this article, please click HERE to leave a comment”.

As far as I know, the Kunena forum team for Joomla might be developing something like this for the Joomla core blog, but the core blog is VERY minimalist and doesn’t even seem to have an archive function! So my preference would be if WordPress made BBpress a “fully loaded plugin” (automatically integrated) with bbsync as a core option as well.

But if Kunena are bringing their own version of ‘Joomlablog sync’ to life with K1.6, then maybe I’ll just have to convert CMS’s.

[jeffhiggins]

Suppose I was to use .9, is there any way to actually get my 1.0 database over to a .9 install?

See, this is the major problem that has been plaguing me all this time. To begin with, I only switched to bbPress because my phpBB3 (modded) broke and the database was partially messed up (no matter what I tried, I could not get that database onto a clean install).

Luckily I was able to get that db over to bbPress, but now that I am here I feel like A) I’m stuck (no backup/restore feature scares me half to death, and that I might have made a mistake. To hear that I should be downgrading to an older version is pretty frightening too, because this is for a client, and I wasn’t planning on sticking around for years to fix all the potential things that might happen from using a year old version of something (especially when support for the .9 version gets dropped altogether.

I really don’t like phpBB3. It does not offer me to the modification/ease of use that I need as a dev. On the other hand, it seems like the more I try to do with bbPress, the less it delivers. Almost none of the useful plugins work with 1.0.2, so I’m stuck deciding whether I should spend the time creating my own theme (based off of the WP theme for the client), or whether I should be trying to figure out how to get this db (which has changed since I left phpBB3) and move it to a platform that is more mature.

This is all very frustrating – and basically illustrates why I hate forum software in general. Any suggestions? I’m desperate/almost at my wits end…

All I really want is:

1. avatars (not just gravatars) [that users can upload for themselves]
2. private messages
3. attachments
4. smilies

And yet, it seems like even these things cannot be had with 1.0 – at least not from what I can find by searching this site (which by the way really needs to organize plugins based on bbPress version compatibility). So in a round about way, I guess I’m stuck with bbPress (and hopefully things will improve – don’t get me wrong it’s great software, but it’s just too simple [without plugins] for what I need). That being said, if the only way for me to enjoy those features lised above is via plugins, then how do I downgrade my install to .9? Alternatively, can I [and if so how do I] install .9 and then point it to my pre-existing 1.0 database (so that all the users, posts, etc, are not lost, and so they resolve in the new .9 install)?

Thanks in advance for any help that you – or anyone else – can give me…

[johnhiler]

The only way I know of to allow unusual characters in usernames is to use display names… but that wouldn’t change the URL of user’s profile.

Yah I definitely recommend using the 0.9.x branch. If you’re using a lot of plugins, it’s going to be really frustrating to be on 1.0.

Glad you’re liking bbPress better than phpBB3!

[jeffhiggins]

I suppose. In my case, I’m developing (or rather, redeveloping) a forum for a club, so I don’t have to worry about people not re-registering (or just prompting the system for a new password), because their participation in the club (which they pay for) hinges on their forum experience. In your case, I suppose it might be more concerning.

[jeffhiggins]

Ok thanks. I will do that. I assume that there is no way to actually allow usernames with /’s though? I’m somewhat experienced with WordPress, but I’m definitely new to bbPress.

On that note, it is very disappointing to see that so many plugins don’t work with 1.0 release. Had I known that I probably would have started with .9 release, and it seems that since you can’t downgrade, I’m pretty much stuck. On the other hand, having migrated from phpBB3, bbPress is just so much better to work with (even with its obvious shortcomings – like no automatic database backups/restore capabilities – which I think is a MUCH NEEDED feature).

[dudenas]

Sorry, cannot agree.

1. Ive done a little survey, and it showed that often people dont participate in forums only because they have to register, and they don`t like it.

2. Most of my users are not very computer-literate.

3. Also you have to keep an ugly technical sticky post for as long as the last user changes password.

Not so nice imho.

[circulartrend]

Hi there,

So I saw the forum-is-category plugin but it doesnt work on bbpress version 0.9.0.6. It still makes a link for a category. Also that is not exactly what I want. I want to mock like proboards or phpbb as far as separation. Now I would upgrade to 1.0 of bbpress to utilize the separate category sections, however dozens of plugins have yet to be updated. I am talking about more than one main theme type of thing:

Section 1

Forum 1

Forum 2

Section 2

Forum 1

Forum 2

See what I am getting at? I hope the future of bbpress implements all the plugin ideas with abilities to change them, turn them on and off etc without the use of plugins…just have it all built in.

[jeffhiggins]

Another twist. Since the name was imported from the previous phpBB db using a plugin, the username actually imported as ///Abcd, but now I am unable to change it to anything else… is there a way to change usernames (not just displayed [first and last] names) from the Admin CP?

[jeffhiggins]

Is it possible to allow for / in usernames?

I recently converted my phpbb board to bbPress, but one of my members had a username that looked like ///Abcd.

So as opposed to forcing him to change his username, is it possible to dig into the code and allow /’s for usernames?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: Sorry if this thread is in the wrong forum!

[jeffhiggins]

For what it’s worth, I don’t think the non-working password “issue” is such an issue at all.

All that one has to do is inform their members that they will need to prompt the board for a password reset, and then they can reset their password to whatever they like (including their old password).

It takes all of two minutes for each member to reset their password. Of all the inconveniences associated with switching forums from one architecture to another, this one seems to me to be so minor it is hardly worth mentioning.

[pikatore]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release

[pikatore]

bbpress is a hell of a lot faster than phpbb.

as for migration, not sure. better let an expert answer

[bmx.pl]

I have forum on phpbb, is it good idea to change engine to bbpress?

This forum is quite big, 500k posts, 15k users,

Is bbpress is faster than phpbb?

Speed and security is most important thing for me.

[dudenas]

Hi once again,

could you please give us a hint on non-working passwords? Is it a real issue, or did we do something wrong?

As I see, we dont need to do anything with md5 insecurity for bbpress plugin - its already integrated?

phpbb3 password plugin is autoloaded.

Could it be problems with mysql version? Mine is 4.1.22

Thanks in advance,

Justas

[jeffhiggins]

You, sir, are a godsend.

I was having so many problems with my modded phpbb3. I had started off with a modded version (NEVER EVER DO THIS!), and it proved to be very unstable and equally insecure (extensive spam). Cookies also failed to work properly. In short, it was a disaster. I tried to revert to a clean install, and I was unable to. Ghost db tables kept breaking the clean installs (the forums can’t find x element, or y table, or z style), and so no one new could register, and there were broken links and tabs all over the place. It was a nightmare (which ironically enough kept me from having any because I’ve hardly had time to sleep trying endlessly to fix these broken forums).

After days and days of trying to transfer the database to a fresh install of phpbb3 (repeating the process over and over and over again), I realized that at the heart of the problem was a horrible architecture (phpbb3), and an utterly failed modification concept (an epic fail – basically the opposite of WP/bbPress plugins). If only there were a way to transfer the database from phpbb3 to bbPress! Maybe bbPress would snuff out all the corrupted db tables that were giving me such grief and corrupting each clean install of phpbb3! Turns out, that is exactly what happened. And it’s all thanks to your plugin – which literally saved my site.

The only “problem” area with was with forums that had ‘ in them (I “” problem because it was so fantastically easy it literally took about 2 minutes). I just renamed each forum to 1, 2, 3, 4 etc, and then changed them back in bbPress! Also, users password were not transferred, but that hardly matters!

Thank you so much! Do you have a PayPal account so I can donate?

[maxbmx]

What about queries, php etc.

[Ryan Hellyer]

According to _ck_ bbPress is faster. According to Sam phpBB is “probably” faster in some situations, in others bbPress is faster. In most situations I’d assume bbPress would load paages faster simply because it generally has a lot less to do, both content wise (less features = less HTML/CSS) and processing wise. The only way to tell would be to bench test two identical setups, but I haven’t heard of anyone doing that before.

In most practical situations I doubt the performance issues are a real issue though. The way you code your theme will probably have more effect on page load times than anything in the backend.

This is all just guess work though.