The importer worked but it keeps randomly deleting threads :(

All of the threads disappeared, so I ran it again and the same thing happened :(

...woah...hmm...were there any errors? do you use hacks on your phpBB2 board?

sorry where im find conventer invision board to phpbb2...can you give me links...becouse im dont find this in www.phpbb.com....

this is not the place to post that. This is a vBulletin forum. The thread is for support on an importer that converts phpBB2 data to vBulletin data.

But, the answer to your question is that one doesn't exist. I'm guessing the reason is (and this is my opinion, no flames please) that I personally like Invision a lot more than phpBB. Apparently, there isn't enough demand for one to merit the developers to make one.

Short and sweet response: There is no IPB->phpBB2 importer. And next time, post a question like this at phpBB.com.

OMG WTF BBQ. I thought this was going to be so much damn work it isn't even funny. Thank you for making my upgrade to vBulletin a breeze.

Ok, that post from Cyricx was really me. Duh. In any case, thank you so very much for making my life simple. I was dreading the hours of potential work an import was going to be. Whoosh, its in.

- ZJ

uh...no problem ;)

Will this be able to convert a phpbb 2.0.4 message board?

After looking at the phpBB 2.0.3 -> 2.0.4 upgrade script, it looks like the mySQL schema (layout) doesn't change much. The changes that are made would not be affect the importer (I hope). All that is changed is the search match, user, and prune tables. The user table would be the only one I would be worried about, and the changes that were made are just changing the default row values.

So it should work fine, unless I missed something ;)

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Script That Crashed: phpBB2 Importer
Script Returned: Couldn't connect to mySQL
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Date of Error: May 1st, 2003 at 3:08 PM
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