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Converting from PHPBB3? [message #159267] Sun, 17 May 2009 06:52 Go to next message
icarus is currently offline  icarus   
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Hi!

Is there any way by now to convert a forum based on PHPBB3 to FUD?

There is one site that I'm trying to convince from PHPBB to FUD because of the possibility to sync to a newsgroup and a mailing list.

Michael

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Re: Converting from PHPBB3? [message #159268 is a reply to message #159267] Sun, 17 May 2009 07:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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We have a converter for PHPBB2. However, I'm not sure how easy or difficult it would be to update it to version 3. Is the differences documented (especially the database schema)?

Best regards.

Frank

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Re: Converting from PHPBB3? [message #159407 is a reply to message #159268] Sun, 31 May 2009 08:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I've just managed to convert a default phpBB3 install to FUDforum. If you are serious about this, please let me know.

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Re: Converting from PHPBB3? [message #159461 is a reply to message #159407] Thu, 04 June 2009 05:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi!
naudefj schrieb am So, 31 Mai 2009 14:05
I've just managed to convert a default phpBB3 install to FUDforum. If you are serious about this, please let me know.

That sounds great! Are there any downsides? It will be a forum with some thousand users. Shell access is no problem. Some technical issues have to be solved before - that's what I'm doing at the moment.

But: The biggest problem will be to convince the current administrators and the board (some members of the board are supporting my idea - but we have elections in the next months so I can't really tell if I can convince the new elected persons)

Michael

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Re: Converting from PHPBB3? [message #159787 is a reply to message #159461] Wed, 24 June 2009 09:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Quote:
That sounds great! Are there any downsides?


I cannot think of any right now. Needless to say, if your run into problems I would be more than willing to help.

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The biggest problem will be to convince the current administrators and the board


Best of luck! Let us know how it goes.

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Re: Converting from PHPBB3? [message #163293 is a reply to message #163291] Thu, 14 October 2010 16:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yes, you can download it from
http://fudforum.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fudforum/trunk/converters/phpBB/

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Re: Converting from PHPBB3? [message #163312 is a reply to message #163301] Sat, 16 October 2010 11:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I can think of two possible reasons:

1. PhpBB's avatar gallery path points to an invalid directory. Fix it and re-try.

2. Alternatively, you haven't specified the FULL path to the phpBB3 config.php file as per the documentation.

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Re: Converting from PHPBB3? [message #163319 is a reply to message #163315] Sat, 16 October 2010 16:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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FULL path is H:\xampplite\htdocs\bb307\config.php (in phpBB3.php) and not something like ../bb307/config.php.

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Re: Converting from PHPBB3? [message #163825 is a reply to message #163319] Thu, 02 December 2010 20:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Naudefj,
Just so I'm clear, will phpBB3.php allow me to import directly from a phpBB forum to a FUD3.02 forum?

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Re: Converting from PHPBB3? [message #163827 is a reply to message #163825] Thu, 02 December 2010 21:39 Go to previous message
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That's the idea, yes.
However, it will probably need a couple of tweaks for 3.0.2 (3.0.2 has a revamped DB layer).

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