Newbie wants to upgrade from phpBB 2.0.20 to VB 3.7.0

[Nick1150]

Hello,

this is my first post

A few years ago, me and some friends have created a phpBB 2.0.20 forum in Greece. Without noticing it we have now almost 2000 active members and a little less than 100,000 posts, which of course is beyond our initial goals and dreams. The forum is hosted by a local company which offered us free services due to our traffic results.

But it is time to upgrade. We like the 3.7.0 version and we want to upgrade to that. The first and most important factor is to guarantee tha all accounts, forums, subforums, posts, threads, together with all files that belong to the specific posts will be transfered as they are. After all the power of our forum is its posts in time. But how can we do that ?

It may be stupid but installing php may be easy for most of you, but it seems "Greek" to us. Except our experience in the administration and moderator level (control panel) we do not have the time or know how in the technical field of php and mysql, etc.... Lets say that we like more spending our time informing our forum and less learning the technical staff. So what we would like is someone to do the job for us.

So can you please help us and give us an experienced company which can handle that project for us ? Can you please propose a company that you had a positive experience in that field ? Can anyone guarantee 100% posts transfer from phpBB 2.0.20 to VB 3.7.0 ?

Thanks in advance

Nick

You may require the help of the Jelsoft staff if you are far from handling web softwares correctly...

but porting phpB 2 to vb 3.7 is easy... we have everything to make it done without a slip...

http://www.vbulletin.com/contact_sales.php is a good start for how they can help you.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

We do offer ImpEx, out import toolkit, free of charge to our licensed customers.

You can read more about ImpEx in the manual: phpBB2

[wolfstream]

The best way to do this is to do a 'test' import first.

As has been suggested, use Impex to handle your needs, but test EVERYTHING first. Put things up on a test forum, setup VB on it's own database, and then do an import (using impex).

Once that's done, try logging in as a few users, or having a few of your own users log themselves into the test forum.

This should give you a pretty good feel for what is what and whether or not your 'import' will be successful.

I haven't personally had any problems with phpbb2 to vb, but I haven't got a ton of experience with it either.