To quote chrishajer, your best bet will probably be to convert to phpbb and then from there to bbpress.
I recently imported all phpbb users into the database and it changed my id to 999999… I went into the DB and changed it back to 1 now I don’t have bb-admin anymore. How can I fix it?
hi chrishajer
after your suggestion i tried to think of a diff way so i installed phpbb via fantastico on a different domain iimported the odl database and then looked through phpmyadmin to see if i could find the posts, success! exported as .csv file and now i have all the data and email addresses 
thanks for your help!
If you have direct access to the database with something like phpMyAdmin, you can view the existing posts. Sounds like the phpBB is not running now, otherwise I would just copy the text from there. Without the software running, you’re going to need to view the posts in the database and copy them from there and paste into bbPress. With a small number of posts, I wouldn’t bother with export and import, just copy them and post new at bbPress.
Hi Guys and Gals
I have a very small phpbb database but not up and running as many problems i have installed bbpress everything is working fine! (except I forgot about moderation and akismet and within 27 mins of going online it had four spam comments )
Is there a way I can just see the posts from that phpbb database and then i will copy and paste into my new bbpress installation?
or is their an easier way? I have xampp runnin locally but tried to move the phpbb files and import the db using phpmyadmin but i get errors.
Like i said its a v small database and I just need the post text!
Thanks in advance
Roger
This is an old post about converting from PHPBB2:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb
The Google Summer of Code project for bbPress is going to focus on importers for bbPress, so if you are not using PHPBB2, you might want to wait until the GSOC project is over. There will probably be an announcement if they complete the tools.
https://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC2008#Web_Forums_Export.2FImport_Standard_and_Tools
Is it possible to convert PHPBB posts/user db to bbpress?
Any help would be appreciated.
Does anyone have a release archives for bbPress, or at least the one for version 0.73. I’m trying to use the phpbb2bbpress http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/ converter, but it only works for 0.73. so i’m thinking I could use that, and then upgrade to version 0.9 later.
alexandreperei: That’s a phpBB forum and was earlier as well. Are you looking for help with phpBB or bbPress?
Wait, its called:
phpBB: OMGPonyBBQs!:
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!1
xD, again. When they gonna make actuall talkpress?.. 
This is not what I meant, haven’t you seen phpbb3 that sort of thing, scrollbar only under
and hyper links are not active in that box.
please people suggest.
I wish there was a beta script! I really want to move from phpbb3 to bbpress now.
Thanks for the news 
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But isn’t it a beta script to import phpbb3 to a bbpress ?
Import/Export is being improved as part of a Google Summer of Code project. We will hopefully have some results from that to share by the end of it.
The basic idea is to create export plugins for other forum software which can export to a standard format. Then we will have one importer to import that standard format into bbPress.
Wow, there isn’t any tool to move from phpbb3 to bbpress ? How bad it is .
I hope there will be soon )…
This is very important if one already got a forum but want to have a *GOOD* integration with WordPress on a new site.
Imagine loosing 4000 users just to be able to change to bbPress. It just won’t happen and it’s a damn shame that there isn’t a converter yet. 
There was a program I liked from phpbb that maybe someone can make for bbpress.
It uploaded the image but showed the thumbnail in the post until you clicked on it.
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=332435
It uses PostImage.org
ok, i downloaded the latest trunk and i was able to get it working although it threw this error out:
Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/cristian/public_html/foros/bb-admin/upgrade-functions.php on line 537
any thoughts?
is there a way to see where the databse update script is getting stuck in?
hey guys,
i am trying to por t a vbulletin forum to bbpress. i’ve managed to port it first to phpbb2 and then to bbpress 0.7 via converters, but know i am stuck unable to upgrade bbpress to 0.9.
0.7 seems to be working fine on first glance and i can login i can see user posts. but when i try upgrading to 0.9 i get stuck in the database conversion with a time out error. i have a dedicated server and i have changed the timing restriction from 600 to 6000 but i still get that error after hours of execution.
can anyone lend a hand? i’ve spent countless hours now trying to get this thing up and running to no avail.
thanks,
melvin
Maybe it’s because I’m not so knowledgeable about wikis, but I really wonder what you are talking about. I totally agree concerning the “simple, fast and elegant”. phpBB is far too complicated for example. But gimme a break please. I don’t need to be told what I need. WordPress is great for news publication, it’s understandable by my not so computer literate community and it even allows to attach documents to posts (albeit not to comments). Now I’m thinking about phase 2, which is the integration of a forum to the blog and the duplication of WordPress posts in a dedicated sub-forum through the bbPost plugin. These guys are scientists who need to communicate AND exchange documents. bbPress appeals to me because of the WordPress integration, BUT I need it to have attachment as a feature. And I don’t have the skills to add this feature. I don’t intend to be demanding. I have an idea what open source development can be. I just don’t want some geek zealot to tell me that my need is wrong just because it breaks his ideal of how his software idol should be…
@Beer: When/if I get the time I’ll be sure to make it public. As you know it’s quite something else to make it work generically rather than for one specific site.
Thanks for the praise though, appreciate it.
@_ck_: Thanks. Yes, I also had a good mind of making that “online” banner that phpbb uses, available per user but other things caught my attention.
Anyways, glad you both liked it.
Very nice work! You could even make a new column on the left to mimic their icons and it would almost exactly the same!
Looks very nice. Will you be making the theme available?
