your server has an execution time limit on how long a process can be alive (processing). You should try lowering the amount of threads it processes each cycle.

Hi Nebula!

I had tried this, but some thread's are to big. I want to convert the problem post every single alone, but the same result. The time is ticking away before it is convert. With the official importer I had this problem not, but there are very more other problems. Huuh, what I can I do...I have send an email to my provider. Is there any chance that there is an problem from your importer, because with the official I had not this problem.

Thanks
Andreas

OK, I have a good idea why it is causing all these timeouts...the [size=*] routine. Now, it just strips size tags off, instead of trying to properly change them from phpBB sizes to vBulletin sizes.

So, go download 0.9.5.2, and let me know if it works ;)

Hello!

Yeah it works :-)
Thanks for your quick help

Bye
Andreas

Still had bugs for me.

PM's were not imported correctly, user's passwords were still scrambled, no attachments imported, no avatars imported, and post counts were all off.

It's still a better upgrade file than the "official" one but this one needs much work. ;)

Sorry 4 the n00b question, but i can't figure it out. LOL

http://fun4gamers.nl/BEWARE/zooi/phpbbport1.jpg

Gives this error:

Where do i fill the login/pass for the phpbb database?

Friendly regards

vbb: http://www.fun4gamers.nl/BEWARE
phpbb: http://www.fun4gamers.nl/daf

Nice importer!

I've made a few modifications to it and the bb_import functions so that the original ID's were preserved, and I plan on adding IMG codes linking to the current phpBB attachments at the end of each post that contains them, if you have any ideas on the best way to go about this (e.g. fastest, safest way) I would appreciate it.

Question: Why are some avatars converting and some aren't? And is this importer supposed to convert the avatar gallery? Because it didn't.

Showtime: You need to have the mySQL Username and Password for the vBulletin database be the same as the phpBB database.

fury: No, I don't really have any ideas about the IMG thing...probably because I don't completely understand :ermm:

I'm not sure why all the avatars aren't importing...hmm. And no, it's not supposed to convert the avatar gallery, that's up to you ;)

How can I resolve the problem of jumbled up Private Messages ?
Everything else seems to be working fine though other than the pm glitch :)

Pls advise

Cheerios ! :)

Read this whole thread and you'll find the answer. You have some user ids missing in your phpbb database. e.g. userid 20,21,22,25,26,27.... 23 and 24 are missing, so userid 25 in the phpbb database will become 23 in the vbulletin database, so the wrong users end up with the pms.

It seems the poll conversion is screwed up.

It tried to run the SQL arguement ... WHERE vote_id =

(without anything after =)

Oh yeah, and it seems that locks didn't get converted.

I'm having the same issue as Showtime... I also ran into the same issue as well with the "official" importer. No matter what I try, I can't assign the same userID and password to the 2 databases on the same server. I contacted my hosting company and they confirmed that it wasn't possible.

Any suggestions as to what I can do?

lol, it is very possible, they're just lazy (no offence, of course).

I use CPanel on my server, and it's the best by far. As for that, there's not much I can say. Some webserver panels are just more flexible than others.

As for the poll thing, I will look into that. I am very busy, as exams are coming up next week. But I'll see what I can do ;)

We're using Plesk as a control panel, I have no other option than that. :tired: Is there no way to modify the importer to allow someone to specify a user and password for the target database? Or am I out of luck on importing my existing users? (I only wish to import the users, nothing more)

try this one. I changed it in 5 minutes, so I might have missed something. It might work though. No guarantees, as it was never really designed for this. Good luck. I can look at it more tomorrow if it doesn't work.

BTW...many of you that are having problems with this, JelSoft will have fixed them (and probably ones that people haven't found), and will release it with vBulletin3...at least that's what they told me.

Thanks so much!!! I'll give it a try! :classic:

So very close...

Now I'm having the opposite problem. It is trying to use the user and password I entered for the phpBB2 database for the vBulletin database. D'Oh!

Thanks so much for your help so far!! I'm so close I can taste it. ...

sorry, PHP doesn't handle mulitple mySQL connections very well...either that, or I don't ;)

Try this. Also, if you're getting queries being executed on the wrong database, try this one too.

Great hack, I converted from yabbse => phpbb => vb

everything went pretty good except alot of my posts contain the html tag ' <br /> '

Its displaying where a line break would normally appear, you can see an example here http://www.cyclingforums.com/t1274.html

Does anyone know of a quick fix to make these posts display properly?

cheers!

Hello! This message to all vBulletin great hackers and simply hackers at all :)
vBulletin board has a really great problem - it can not restore db itself!
Ok, my hoster always do backup for me and he can restore it, but it much more easily to do it myself.
!! Do you know some script as in phpBB to restore db?
in phpBB admin has link "RESTORE DATABASE"
! May be someone could? Heh. It 'll be realy GREAT!

um, er....

This is a vB group, not a phpbb one. I think it would be inappropriate to try to support phpbb. I recommend you check at www.phpbb.com and www.phpbbhacks.com for phpbb support.

Danka.
Aaron

i have a vb2.2.9 with over 200 000 posts.
another board that use phpbb2 will join my board and take alle the posts, threads and users into my vbb2.2.9

can i do this with this script ? i dont want lose my datas in the vb229

Cyc: hmm...my copy of phpBB never did that...on the other hand, I don't exactly keep it updated ;) Maybe they do that in the newer versions.

Wells: try phpMyAdmin.

Molok: yes you can. My importer can merge databases. But, as always, back up your database(s) first.

mySQL Database Error!

Script That Crashed: phpBB2 Importer
Script Returned: Couldn't Select DB (I didn't leave it here for security reasons)
mySQL Said: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database '(removed for security reasons)(Error Number 1044)
Date of Error: February 22nd, 2003 at 2:50 PM
URL of Script: /board/importers/bbimport_phpbb2.php
Referring Page:

That's the error I get.

in your vBulletin config.php file, you need to specify a mySQL username ;)

I have.... What should I do now?

run the importer again ;)

I have used the importer a few times and I still get the same error :(

oh...sorry, I think I know the problem. Use the file in the first thread, not the one towards the end. The one (v0954) is experimental.

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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Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Access denied for user: 'apache@localhost' (Using password: NO) in /usr/l***/***/***/***/fc-factor/httpdocs/***/importers/bbimport_phpbb2.php(1157) : eval()'d code on line 1
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mySQL Database Error!

Script That Crashed: phpBB2 Importer
Script Returned: Couldn't connect to mySQL
mySQL Said: Nothing
Date of Error: May 1st, 2003 at 3:08 PM
URL of Script: /forum/importers/bbimport_phpbb2.php?s=&action=styles&idbname=Cron& iprefix=phpbb2plus_&iusername= &ipassword=
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