[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.

[kraig]

I think bbpress is relatively faster when compared to phpbb.

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[Olaf Lederer]

I think you can’t compare both forums, bbpress is still in an early stadium.

bbpress is very cool because it’s very easy to combine bbpress with wordpress (and buddypress)

EDIT: and bbpress is more spamproof (at least for me)

[maxbmx]

phpbb vs bb press board. Which is faster?

…and “how much” faster is.

[Ryan Hellyer]

Hmm, well this all sounds promising’ish.

I asked Sam Bauers at WordCamp NZ how bbPress would compare speed-wise and server resource wise to other standard forum softwares like phpBB, SMF, vBulletin etc. He said that the others were probably faster on a shared hosting environment, but when mem-caching is running that bbPress leaps ahead in performance. Sam, perhaps you were referring to forums which REQUIRE mem-cache (ie: super large forums) running better on bbPress than the other softwares?

At any rate it sounds like for my purposes that I shouldn’t worry about these things too much and just stick with using it straight out of the box.

[willscootforfood]

@chrishajer I was converting a PHPBB 3.04 install to a bbPress 1.0 install. I am using the original script in the first post of this topic. Should I be using a different script?

Sorry for the lack of details in my first post. I was trying to keep my 17 month old girl alive another day LOL.

[chrishajer]

@willscootforfood – looks like the apostrophe (single quote) was not escaped before trying to insert. Can you explain what you’re trying to convert and what script you’re using? And what version of bbPress are you going to use?

[willscootforfood]

I am getting the following error:

SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘s bike’, ‘5’, ‘8’, ‘0’, ‘0’)’ at line 1 [1064]

SQL

INSERT INTO bb_forums (forum_id , forum_name, forum_desc, forum_parent, forum_order, topics, posts) VALUES (‘6’, ‘Bike of the Month’, ‘Each month we will showcase a different member’s bike’, ‘5’, ‘8’, ‘0’, ‘0’)

BACKTRACE

FILE: includes/db/mysql.php

LINE: 174

CALL: dbal_mysql->sql_error()

FILE: phpbb3tobbpress.php

LINE: 201

CALL: dbal_mysql->sql_query()

[heartson]

Yes.

[DennisH]

@heartson is bb and phpbb in the same db?

[maxbmx]

Hello,

I would like to convert my phpbb3 forum to bbpress.

About 4000UU per day

About 100users online in one moment.

About 400 000 posts

What kind of server i need?

How much RAM memory?

What kind of procesor?

1.

Intel Atom mono 1.60 Ghz L2: 512KB, FSB: 533MHz

512 MB DDR 2

is it enough?

or?

2. Intel Atom Dual 2x 1.6 Ghz L2: 2x 512KB, FSB: 533MHz

1GB DDR2

[chandersbs]

I really love bbPress, but still wished some features existed by default. I know it’s doable via plugins, but default features are more cool, you can always turn it off. I really dislike the fact that some of the solutions I have seen on this forum, are related to “integrate your forum with WordPress, and use this plugin and it will work”, no, I don’t like that. bbPress should be able to do stuff on its own, without WordPress.

I don’t want to install WordPress for the sake of making some things work. I have been a WordPress user for so many years already, but still I refuse to do that. I have managed to convert my forum, which was originally SMF into bbPress (SMF > phpBB > bbPress), that was a lot of work, but I’m really happy I did that.

bbPress is by default very EMPTY, very very very empty. I was not used to a forum, with so less features and options. My users didn’t like it. I managed to add a lot of features via plugins. Now my users are a bit happy, I’m also very happy.

The best part I love so far is, that making changes not always is so difficult compared to SMF or phpBB. phpBB is the last forum software on this planet I’d want to use, OMG so difficult to make changes. SMF is one of the best out there, but has some limits due to their copyright system.

Some things I’d really love to see happening anytime very soon:

1. A codex page, with detailed instruction about the codes, just like its big brother WordPress has, at least a start, so we, the webmasters, can do more cool stuff

2. More features by default, such as:

a. Private message

b. Avatar upload

c. Memberlist

d. Quote option in topics

e. Smilies

These are some very basic options.

I’m sure bbPress will be one of the most professional forum software out there one day, it’s not so far yet, but I see it happen.

That’s why I’m a proud user of this software.

[heartson]

Tried to convert phpbb 3.0.5 to bbpress 1.0.2 and got this error:

SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Table ‘xxx_phpbb.bb_forums’ doesn’t exist [1146]

An SQL error occurred while fetching this page.

Any way I can fix this? Thanks in advance for any help.

[unholyfruitbat]

Hello,

I recently converted phpbb3 > bbpress 1.0.2 and for some reason now the Dashboard form the admin panel loads really slow. It seems like a mysql issue but when I check the process list it doesn’t seem bad.

[eclipsenow]

Some above have mentioned “less is just less”… and for a non-hacker like myself, I agree. I’d like to see bbpress come “fully loaded”, at LEAST with all the basic features one sees in SMF and phpbb3 all ready to rock and roll “out of the box”.

FULL integration / merging with WP would be my pick. Then themers would have to work harder developing the bb into their themes for each WP “community portal” (What I’m calling the FULL WP / bbpress / buddypress / bbsync package).

I’ve also expressed my ‘wish list’ here.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/299017?replies=9#post-1175959

However, having said that I totally agree with the moderator above who said “So it’s something about the promise of bbPress that’s not yet been realized that gets people frustrated.” WordPress is way cool, and with a *truly* integrated bbpress portal system, it would rock the world and give Drupal and Joomla and SMF and phpbb3 a good run for their money! Imagine a Fantastico install of WP, and then just ticking some boxes and all the bbpress stuff was already there, “fully loaded” with all the options and ready to rock & roll?

Ahhhh, I’m a suckie Myer’s Briggs ENJF idealist… can’t help myself….

[DennisH]

@johnhiler Thanks for the links. I’ve decided it only makes sense for us to use BB if it was deeply integrated. I’m willing to take the server hit, it can’t be any worse than what phpbb is doing.

@mark-k I think you would be everyones hero if you pulled it off. Instead of one big plugin, maybe you could do several smaller ones.

The one thing I can’t wrap my head around is login pages and profile pages. Having 2 different pages (integrated or not) is not only confusing to users it’s confusing to administrators. In a perfect world BB would handle all of this, but we know that’s not the case. So what to do? You can’t have a BB “login box” in WP, but BB should be their only profile page (that’s where they will be uploading avatars, checking PMs, etc.). So could you redirect WP login page to BB? If so how would you automatically redirect them back to the last visited blog page? I’m so confused I don’t even know how to write these questions intelligently. How do you have just one login page and just one profile page?

PS

I got the avatars working.

[unholyfruitbat]

Bleh, I found the cause, it was the previously mentioned ‘ in the forum name or description.

[unholyfruitbat]

SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ’em’, ‘0’, ‘1’, ‘646’, ‘6973’)’ at line 1 [1064]

I’m using phpBB 3.0.4 and bbpress 1.0.2, MySQL 4.1.22

Am I going to have to upgrade MySQL to complete this?

[hpguru]

This is bbPress Support Forum, not phpBB Support Forum.

[costyn1]

Good evening and excuse me for my bad English.

I need to put a disclaimer in my phpbb forum.

My site is about tobacco product.

I wanna display a disclaimer that sais that the site is only for ADULT SMOKERS.

I tried the plugin “Term-of-service” but it displays the disclaimer only when the user is registering.

I want that the forum is visible to registered and unregisterd user, but I need to display a message the first time the user browses my site.

I hope it’s clear.

Any idea?

[DennisH]

Same here. Passwords do not work. Users need to reset them.

[dudenas]

No errors.

Everything seemed OK, except passwords didn`t work.

[unholyfruitbat]

cloo, were there any errors during your conversion?

I was going to attempt 3.0.4 > bbpress 1.0.2 until I saw this