How Import PHPBB 1.4 forum/users in vB2.03?

i have 2DBs, one for PHPBB and one for vB. please need Help!!

vB Forum is not empty, has many forums and users!!!

well...download the .ZIP file from the post right above your first one, and then unzip the bbimport_phpbb.php file somewhere on your harddrive. Then upload it to your vBulletin importer directory (if your vBulletin web address is: 'http://www.yoursite.com/forum', then your importer directory is 'http://www.yoursite.com/forum/importers'). Then, go to your vBulletin Admin control panel, login, and then find the link on the navagation panel (left side) that says BB Import Systems. It's right above Update Counters. Then, select the phpBB entry, and follow the instructions from there.

I guess this means to all my testers that there are no bugs??

I guess...this means that since nobody is giving me bug reports...that this version is ready to go final!

At least 3 people have used this script right now, and it has been perfect in converting for them. There was a minor technical difficulty, but that was because they didn't wait until it went final (like now ;)). I am going to trim the script up, rewrite the dialogs, and then ship it off to JelSoft (finally :P).

If there is a last minute bug that you find in this, please contact me immediately. Thank you.

I test the import-script in next days.

Why don't you start a new thread for this and ask the mods to close this one? since it's gotten to be so long people have to read through it to get to the file...

interesting idea...but I won't for 2 reasons...[list=1][*]It's complete[*]It's the thread with the most posts in this forum, and I intend to keep it that way ;) EDIT: This thread got moved...so it isn't any more...sob :-P[/list=1]

This script is done anyways, so it shouldn't really be updated anymore...really...kinda...;)

*snicker* Moved, lol. :)

So now that you've got the phpBB importer nailed down...where's the one for converting straight from ikonboard to vBulletin!? :)

Well, I'm not going to say anything for now, but once iKonBoard 3 goes final, and it seems that they will not be making very many updates to the database structure/data, then I may start work on an iKonBoard importer.

As some of you may know, because I told you in a post, or you know me, I have as of currently returned to school. There is not much homework right now, but I am sure there is plenty of wrath that my teachers have stored up for me :P

I will definately be making a phpBB2 importer. You can count on that. iKonBoard3 importer is a maybe. iKonBoard 2 is a no. People will have to upgrade. IB2 was free, and so is IB3. I can't make an importer for every version, just the newest ones ;)

Question, will this import users, user post count, and rankings? I have been a long time phpBB user, and finally decided to upgrade to vB, a lot of my users don't want their "ranking" to be set to ZERO again.

Thanks for all your help!

I don't know about rankings, but it does import their postcounts, so at most you'd have to re-enter the rank names

You mean the stuff in the ranks table? (School was tiring today :P). It's an idea...but...well hmm. I guess I never thought of it. I could do it, but...oh gah...I really don't want to release another version (I want this to be done). I will do it though. This will be pretty low on my list of priorities tho...School being at the top ;)

Talk to you later.

Awesome! Consider me to be another vB customer after this weekend :)

Thanks!

Use it, love it....

Neb helped my turn my UBB -> phpBB -> vB into a fully working DB, and it had LOTS of problems.

The script was(is) awesome.......it's final as my 900+ user 35000 post board will attest to.....

Thanks Neb,

JC

Whee, glad to know people are happy. I've been trying to send emails to Ed Sullivan, but he isn't responding :P

I'm going to try some other ones.

thanks! looks gr8 :)

but where's the link? it was here! it's gone??? :confused:

I sent a message to James, but he won't be back until September 14 (I think). That's the good news, I got the message sent. The horrible news is...my vBulletin license expires on the 9th of September!!!!!

So, if you guys want something fixed, please tell me before September 9th. I don't want to run a vBulletin copy if it's expired...

Hello. This version may add a bug or two, but that's okay, the new features were supposed to be included, but never were, but now are (did I say that right??). The new features are:

• Rank Title Imports
• User Title Imports
• Ban List Imports
• Censored Word Imports
• Illegal Username Imports
• FIXED: Settings were not taking immediate affect, only after you changed them in the control panel, they now take immediate affect.

Anyways, hope you like this update. I need a few people to help test this. I have tested this myself, and believe it to work, but would like to know it works for others too...

In other news, this will be the version I send to James (if no bugs are found). Please help me get this tested.

Silly me...I forgot to upload the new release :P

i am in the process of converting a phpBB w/

• Total Members: 6419
• Topics: 37009
• Posts: 355434

i'm over half done and no probs yet... i'll let you know how it works for me :D

cool, I'm here. Tell me if anything happens.

will do... probably tomorrow though... i will be leaving before it gets finished!

after it imports threads, what is left?

PMs, Options, and to update counters...that's all

well the conversion went good w/the exception of some of the bb code... for example ->
so some of the pages are a little messed up but the conversion went pretty good all in all.

.........what?

Sorry, didn't understand that one at all :P

Tell me more about some pages screwing up, and what do you mean some BBCode reverted?

i found little snipets of html within some posts. not sure if it should be there or not. i haven't had time to look over the board as much as i would like to.

can you tell me what kinds of HTML? Bold Tags...Link Tags...Font Tags...give me some info!! ;)

I haven't had much time lately to keep testing the script. My phpBB forums are now cleared from all problems encountered from importing from IB, so I have a 100% working database.

I imported everything into Vbulletin and this time it went much better than before, if fact there are just a couple of problems this time.

The first is the members, it does imports them but does not merge them at all. i.e where members had the same username at phpBB as in vBulletin, they appear as duplicates (2 Charles, 2 John, etc) That is nothing too serious as I can fix it manually.

The main problem are the dates and I've tried everything. Not with the date they registered but with the date of posting. i.e May 23rd, 2037 03:59 In all the posts, the dates are wrong. They year is always in the future.

Anyone else having this problem or knows how it can be fixed? I'm not talking about importing into an empty database, that may work, but one which has members and posts already.

Apart from that, it's perfect.

so far i've only seen bold and link tags.

okie, I'm reconverting my test board (provided by ParentStep.com). I will see what is wrong with the bold and link tags not working. Also Juan, That problem can be fixed about the dupe usernames. Just tell me how I should change it ;) Also, I'm looking into the whacked post dates...

I'll let you know what happens, and if i'm able to reproduce some of your errors.

Hmm...I reproduced the all the errors but the post date/time bug, and fixed them. As for that, it worked completely fine for me. Since it is not broken for me, I won't try to fix it. Try converting again, and make sure that you are using phpBB version 1.4.0 or higher. If you still get something messed up with the post date/times...please send me a link where I can download a copy of your phpBB database (or a direct link to phpMyAdmin).

Here's the new release. I fixed some BBCode issues...what happened was, I removed the insensitivity flag in the preg_replaces in the HTML2vBCode function. So, only HTML tags that were uppercase were changed. That's now fixed. This version, you really only need to use it if you want to try to import a database, I did not add any new features.

I'm trying desperatly to fix the time and date of the posts.

eg:

phpBB Posted: 2001 Mar 29 23:00:35

vBulletin Posted: 08-23-2034 04:00 AM

Could this have something to do with the Time Zone Offset or the format of times and dates that has been set in the options at the Admin centre?

Juan, it is not an error with the time-zone settings. It is something else. Either your phpBB Database is corrupt, or, I don't know. Please send me a link where I can download a SQL dump of your phpBB database. Or, send me a link to a copy of phpMyAdmin. If you do, I'll get on it right away.

Hi Nebula,

You are right, I found out what is causing the error. It's the format of the dates at phpBB, they are not standard. I need to convert those dates properly before it will work.

Don't worry, I think I have it under control now.

Are you using phpBB 1.4.0? Or, are you using a hacked version of phpBB 1.4.0? Tell me if what you did is because of you, or because of the way phpBB works. If it is because of phpBB, and not a hack, send me a copy of your dump so I can fix this. Thanks.

Nebula,

I would like to thank you for your import script, it's perfect. Don't forget to e-mail me your paypal details.

At last it has worked. Nothing wrong at all with your script, it was to do with the format of the dates from IB. After moving to phpBB, I had to run another script to change to the correct date format, then it just went very smooth.

I managed to go from IB to PphBB to Vbulletin without a single bug.

Too cool.

Goodie, I've been looking over the code every 2 hours or so hoping to realize what was wrong. Glad you fixed it.

::sigh::...my vBulletin expires 2nite, or tomorrow, however JelSoft does it.

ah, thanx for the new version. i will give it a go and let you know how it works :D

Hi,

It sounds like a great script!
I didnt test it yet, can i import from a phpbb that is NOT located on my server?

I guess the phpbb board owner will have to send me his DB right?

right.

Thanx John ;)