Importing from phpBB using 2.6.0
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I was not able to use the previous phpBB importer as it was failing right at the start. This new version seems to work better! However, I have some comments about this.
1/ A possible problem.
Here is my log (which I paused in the end):
Import Stopped (by User.)
9.Calculating topic stickies (7 through 100 of 100)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (100 through 7 of 7)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (7 through 100 of 100)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (100 through 7 of 7)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (7 through 100 of 100)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (100 through 7 of 7)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (7 through 100 of 100)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (100 through 7 of 7)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (7 through 100 of 100)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (100 through 7 of 7)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (7 through 100 of 100)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (100 through 7 of 7)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (7 through 100 of 100)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (100 through 7 of 7)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (7 through 100 of 100)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (100 through 7 of 7)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (7 through 100 of 100)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (100 through 7 of 7)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (0 through 99 of 100)0% 8.No anonymous topic authors to import 7.All topics imported100% 7.Converting topics (900 through 928 of 928)90% 7.Converting topics (800 through 899 of 928)80% 7.Converting topics (700 through 799 of 928)70% 7.Converting topics (600 through 699 of 928)60% 7.Converting topics (500 through 599 of 928)50% 7.Converting topics (400 through 499 of 928)40% 7.Converting topics (300 through 399 of 928)30% 7.Converting topics (200 through 299 of 928)20% 7.Converting topics (100 through 199 of 928)10% 7.Converting topics (0 through 99 of 928)0% 6.No forum subscriptions to import 5.All forum parents imported100% 5.Calculating forum hierarchy (0 through 25 of 25)0% 4.All forums imported100% 4.Converting forums (0 through 30 of 30)0% 3.Skipping password clean-up 2.Skipping user clean-up 1.Skipping sync-table clean-up Starting Import... Ready to go.
The issue was step 9 where it seemed to be in a ever repeating cycle of:
9.Calculating topic stickies (7 through 100 of 100)100% 9.Calculating topic stickies (100 through 7 of 7)100%
2/ Feature Request
Because I was not able to previously import content I came up with a new simplified set of forum categories etc in my bbPress forum. Therefore, ideally I would love to be presented with a list of forums that are going to be imported so that I can map them to the existing forums I have created. So some would be merging several into one if that makes sense.
At the moment (even though I hit stop on point 9) I was able to view the forum and could seem many boards imported – a quick look it looked great. It is just that I wanted control over how the topics were imported. Thus my idea for the mapping from old forums to current forums.
Can this be done?
Please let me know if I need to give more info.
I don’t know if this should be a “trac ticket” or not.
Well done guys.
Andrew
PS. The related question (which can be closed and linked to this new one is: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb-5/).
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