[mccollin]

Hi folks... I've got a few questions as I prepare for the big merge of two forums. I built a phpBB system and just purchased a site that is vB and I want to merge the two. But, my current site has a lot of custom pages that are content fed from the forum database... and I want to maintain my external links, google placement, etc.

Here are my questions...

1. Am I correct that this should work going from phpBB 2.0.3 to vB 2.3.0?

2. What does this importer do or not do, compared to the Jelsoft one?

3. I am going to have users that need to be merged... I believe you do that in the import, correct?

4. Here's the biggy. I want to create a couple of tables to use with a redirect script. One with phpBB topicid and vb threadid.. the other one with phpBB postid and vb postid. I will then replace the phpBB viewtopic.php with a simple redirect that pulls the topicid from the url, and redirects to the appropriate vb thread. I have many custom pages that will need this to. How hard would this be to do? Could you direct me to the part of the import code where I would need to make the mod... or better yet, would you be willing to add it? I've got to believe that other people could use this. I will donate my redirect scripts back, if you can add it to the import... so that its official. I'm a bit leary of messing with the import script.

Thanks.