[AndrewRH]

Any word on whether this converter works for phpBB3 v3.0.5 and bbpress v1.0? (asking before trying!)

Thanks,

~Andrew~

[Ryan Hellyer]

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.

[Josh Leuze]

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!

[kevinjohngallagher]

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/___alpha/bbpress_as_phpbb/

Released last October/November time mate

[Martin R.]

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

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

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…)

[Josh Leuze]

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?

[Josh Leuze]

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

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

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!

[Markus Pezold]

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.

[bobbyh]

onelove, you may need to hand-edit your sql statements. Can you paste in line 1064 of your sql file?

[jurasiks]

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

[johnhiler]

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.

[jurasiks]

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?

[jurasiks]

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

[onel0ve]

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

[mikemcd22]

@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

[Markus Pezold]

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.

[onel0ve]

I dnt kn0w much about db .Is there any script?

[Tynan Beatty]

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.

[onel0ve]

i wana convert my phpbb 3.0.5 forum to bbpress 0.9.5

please help me

[radioinsight]

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.

[johnhiler]

Sam mentioned that he might set up a codex for us to start documenting bbPress… so I thought it might be useful to round up useful links with info we could cleanup for a bbPress codex:

Versions:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-stable-version-version-0905

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-release-candidate-1

http://bbpress.org/forums/tags/releases

WordPress and bbPress signin integration:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

Theme integration:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/seemless-wordpress-integration

php compatibility issues:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/warning-cannot-yet-handle-mbcs-in-html_entity_decode

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/warning-cannot-yet-handle-mbcs-in-html_entity_decode-in-home2

Writing plugins:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/overwriting-template-functions

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/list-of-hooksactions

Importing data:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb

Translation:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-translate-bbpress-to-another-language

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-translation-internationalization-into-local-languages

Roles:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/adding-a-new-user-type?replies=6#post-9210

Miscellaneous FAQ’s:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forums-started-39-years-ago

Please chime in and share what you’d like to see documented in a bbPress codex… and also, any links you’ve found particular valuable!

[timskii]

I’ve been “testing” 1.0 out privately over the last week, primarily by re-writing my custom code and templates, and then working through every user operation (to check both my changes, and the underlying software). So I’ll try and play devil’s advocate to _ck_’s “don’t upgrade!”

From the user’s perspective, little has changed. The most significant feature to pull out is the use of Display Names. That’s a huge plus on an “international” forum, because users can now set their names to contain non-English characters. And there’s no need to workaround empty display names in WordPress (when a user registers via BBPress).

Templating is similarly unchanged. About the most significant change is that the contents of tag-form.php can no longer be altered via a template – which was likely never required anyway. Semantically, existing oddities remain (like the profile edit is still a table), and usability can be clunky in places (when you register successfully, there’s a message that tells you to log in, but nothing immediately helpful, like a login screen).

Plugins very much depends on how deep they go. The only place I stumbled was in user roles, where the underlying code had completely altered. But I’m not using many plugins, and the custom code I had been using, I’d been prepared to rewrite. (Most of it was a mess anyway!) A clear “your mileage may vary” caveat, and particular risk if one doesn’t understand enough programming to work round anything that breaks.

Technically, 1.0 feels fairly solid. I have found glitches, but nothing worse than some of the 0.9 versions. 1.0 does perform many more database queries. Like 50 on certain pages. Although it is hard for me to assess the load implications without running it on a public site. Integration worked OK as an upgrade, once I’d realised that the upgrade did not automatically add the new cookie-related keys (which needed to be added manually to the existing config files). The whole package feels more “bloated”, but that may be more the fault of WordPress than BBPress. I just hope BBPress doesn’t evolve into the messy, feature-overloaded forum software I had been trying to avoid.

So, if I was just running BBPress, on balance I’d stick with 0.9, at least until the dust settles on 1.0.

But. There’s a but.

If nobody uses 1.0, hardly anyone is debugging it, hardly anything gets fixed, and so on. There’s a danger of putting 1.0 on the shelf, waiting for someone else to finish it, and then wondering why the bugs never get found. So even if you aren’t running it on a live site, it might be useful to try it out privately.

Rightly or wrongly, WordPress 2.5.1 makes me increasingly nervous: As times goes on, I’m going to find plugins and templates that aren’t designed for that version. And while it is claimed that 2.5.1 has no security flaws, if almost nobody is using it, the chance of any flaw getting found and reported is also low. In contrast, the latest version is sure to get picked apart and patched back up very quickly.

And then I started to look at BuddyPress, and… I don’t even know if it’s possible to run that on top of 2.5.1. But you can see the way I’m starting to think: An old BBPress is itself rooting me in the past. And while I knew it was unfinished software when I started using it, I had rather assumed it would at least keep pace with WordPress, not get left a year behind.

So right now, it’s a rather person decision. All other things being equal, I tend to agree with _ck_.

However, I see a lot of WordPress 2.7+ blogs with phpBB forums hosted alongside. And naturally no integration between them. In the near future, that’s the first big, obvious “market” for BBPress. Yet almost all those people need compatability with the latest WordPress. For us “early adopters” that’s important: Some of those new BBPress users will write plugins and templates, and they won’t bother trying to support outdated code. Once that starts to happen, old 0.9 users will find they are missing out – which will probably be the time for most existing users to upgrade.

[woodlandstar]

The complexity of discussion boards simply exceeds my patience level for user “Unfriendly” software. I have played with a few of them (phpBB, SMF,bbpress) and have concluded that they are just to damn difficult to integrate into a web site. Most will install easy enough, and the default themes are about as ugly as you can get. Every one of them claims to have easy configuration etc. What a pile of crap. The worst of the lot is the BBpress board. Which is surprising since their blog is so easy to install and changing themes is a snap.

The “how to” support pages for all of them must have been developed by computer geeks who rarely speak English. Instructions which should be simple are garbled and about as user friendly as a wet cat.

My intention was to attempt to integrate a discussion board with my blog (http://woodlandstar.net/WSblog/): something Word Press should have developed a long time ago. How difficult can it be to extend Comments into a simple discussion board? Until something is developed that easily installs and easily integrates with the existing web site, I will hold off on using BB.