Hi,
How stable bbPress is? Is it ready to hold 15k users (still growing) and 100u online in one moment?
How much faster/slower is it he in comparison to PHPBB3, vbulletin, ipb?
Single Sign-on is a very convenient feature to have in an organization, and for web services (on apache, at least) it’s very conveniently provided by mod_auth_kerb.
However, there is a problem preventing its use with bbPress, namely user name handling.
Kerberos user names are of the form user@DOMAIN.TLD. bbPress username sanitization rules are too strict and strip the ‘@’ character outright. And anyway, domain concept is not supported throughout the code and in underlying database.
Moreover, the whole HTTP auth support (purportedly, a basic thing in any web app) relies on external and somewhat broken plugin (it uses bb_user_exists deprecated function, which is not working properly in 1.0, or at least it seems so to me).
In my most extant dreams (phpbb style 
, SPNEGO auth plugin should be also able to query an LDAP database (which is most often present in such set-ups) for extra user info.
Any word on whether this converter works for phpBB3 v3.0.5 and bbpress v1.0? (asking before trying!)
Thanks,
~Andrew~
Creating a theme without a table is easy enough, just remove the tables from the theme. However the question you need to ask is “why?”.
The default phpBB3 theme ProSilver uses a table-less layout and instead use definition lists to achieve a ‘table-like’ look, but most HTML/accessibility experts consider this to be an abuse of definition lists and do not recommend it. Tables are for tabular data and most people consider things like a board index to be in fact tabular, hence tables are typically used.
I got it to work, the converter did a great job, thanks wmnasef!
I was trying to do the conversion on fairly standard VPS with a typical LAMP stack, I’m not really sure why it didn’t work on there.
But after that I tried the conversion on my Media Temple Grid Service account and it worked fine. (The forum is quite small, 7000 posts) So if someone else runs into a similar problem, try a different web host or a local web server, maybe you’ll have better luck too!
Footer tells me: 0.397 seconds – but thats relative. I will change host and server when I publish the board. I just know 4 other boards that are faster on my server right now. So its not exactly beeing about “slow” – Its about making it faster. Perhaps with Caching because my board will have 90% passive readers/guests who can wait a few minutes for updates and should not slow it down.
But thanks. Looks like there arent any tipps or a caching-plugin. To bad, bbPress would be really great.
Firefox/Firebug/Yslow/Pagespeed-Tests:
Punbb: 200ms
Vbulletin: 200ms
Minibb: 300ms
Seoboard: 400ms
BBpress: 500ms
Phpbb: 500ms
Vanilla: 600ms
+-50ms
Can you share those results? I’m curious, since I found it to run faster than phpBB and IPB (though anything runs faster than IPB…)
I got pretty close with wmnasef’s script, but I think I am having a problem similar to gavinj77’s.
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 ‘opinions on current political questions.’, ‘0’, ‘2’, ’48’, ‘235’)’ at line 1 [1064]
I’m trying to convert an install of phpBB 3.0.4 to bbPress 0.9.0.5, a small amount of data did transfer over to bbPress before I received the error.
I tried to download matiaspunx’s edited file and I was also unable to.
Does anyone know exactly what I have to edit to “use the addslash function”, or happen to have a copy of this file they would be kind enough to share with me?
Thanks so much for the links Ipstenu!
I figured if there was a way out of YAF, it would most likely be to phpBB. Surprised I didn’t find this in my own searches.
If I can just get this data out of YAF, I think it will all be downhill from there
Mad idea.
Convert it to phpBB2 (NOT 3!) – http://forum.yetanotherforum.net/default.aspx?g=posts&t=782
Convert phpBB to bbPress – http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/
See also: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-smf-to-bbpress
If you read the SMF to bbPress thread you’ll see what machinations were needed. Good luck!
hmm… this function/plugin would be great to admin’s for “cleaning” after an import from another software, e.g. phpBB.
When today a admin user goes into an old Post from an Guest Users (of the old software) and change something – the post is saved with his user-id. It’s not possible to change the username afterwards to the original username.
onelove, you may need to hand-edit your sql statements. Can you paste in line 1064 of your sql file?
very strange, i have converted phpbb 305 to bbpress 0905 with just one error in users (password filed was to short)
u installed some mods or etc that affect phpbb database?
and your phpbb db is large? better to convert on localhost
This is definitely related to the phpbb3 to bbPress conversion. The AUTO_INCREMENT gets set really high by the conversion script, to avoid userID conflicts.
Previous users have reported fixes here – hope one of these fixes work!
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-id-999999999#post-5521
Please let us know how it goes.
After convertation from phpBB3 to BBpress 0.9.0.5 i delete fake users and change IDs, but when somebody registers now his new ID is 140x… where i can fix this?
i mean how to say to bbpress that i have only etc. 30 users, so next ID must be 31,32,33?
bbpress 0.9.0.5 and phpbb 3.0.5 at localhost:
when i click on “converting users data”
i have:
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]
Data too long for column ‘user_url’ at row 1 [1406]
to small? how to fix and convers users data properly?
updated: fixed!
ALTER TABLE bb_users CHANGE user_url user_url VARCHAR( 255 ) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL
General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]
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 links’, ’21’, ’20’, ’80’, ‘157’)’ at line 1 [ 1064 ]
An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists.
when i try to convert i get this errror massage please help
@Michael3185
Any chance you could share the location of those PHP Tutorials? I would love to check them out. I was remembering a friend of mine used PHPBB years ago. I had forgotten all about it until he recently posted to a discussion list. Guess he was a real pioneer!
http://www.bavp.org/forumz/ If you want to check it out (though I can’t imagine why…)
Thanks
Hi onelove,
i think this must be the right “startingpoint” for you:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release
I’ve converted a phpBB 2 to phpBB 3 to bbPress 0.9.4 Forum three weeks ago. The converter works great for me. But the best way is on a local pc (XAMPP, WAMP, LAMP) which some backups.
A colleague from me wrote a little script with some regular expressions to clean up the topics and posts. eg. for the old phpBB <quote>-Tag and the smilies. Maybe I can upload this script temporary.
Also i hope i have some time to write an “how to” for the user reverse user integration in WordPress after the conversion from phpBB3. On Mysteria3000 (http://www.mysteria3000.de) we have 50 authors and about 150 users in the forum.
I dnt kn0w much about db .Is there any script?
onel0ve, I converted a phpbb2 forum to bbpress 1.0a6 awhile back and it was quite a bit of work. You’ll need to export the entire db, then figure out which forum/topic/post ids correlate between phpbb3 and bbpress. The easiest way I found to rebuild the db in bbpress is to write some regexes that take the exported phpbb3 forum data and format it into correct sql statements to preserve the old id associations between posts/topics etc. Of course, phpbb3 and bbpress 0.9.5 are probably totally different from phpbb2 and bbpress1.0 in terms of db table format, but I remember having to combine data from several phpbb2 tables into single bbpress tables to accomplish the task. Make sure you have a test environment to build the new bbpress db on as you’ll probably need to give it a few tries and test out a few things before attempting to rebuild the entire thing.
Unless you own your server, you’ll also want to be sure to do the actual regexing (if you decide to run it in a php script for example) on your own computer (XAMPP or LAMP), because if your forums are large, that is quite a load on the server to run the regex routines that format your sql insert statements (and your hosts may not be too happy about that). I also ended up having to split up my data into several files to get it to work with a php regex.
i wana convert my phpbb 3.0.5 forum to bbpress 0.9.5
please help me
Dave,
I recently converted from FudForum to bbPress by way of SMF and PHPbb.
Convert the board from SMF to PHPbb and then to bbPress. Worked like a charm.
