Updated PhpBB converter :)

[ShannaraAK]

Hellos everybody This is my very first post on these forums. After wasting time thinking the phpbb team would get off their butts and work on their product (phpbb3 is over 2 years late, and phpbb3 is basically officially vaporware), someone mentioned this forum on my forums. I looked at it and fell in love with it right away. The stability of vbulletin without all its bugs and fake features, the popularity of phpbb (or close to it), and the ease of usability

Anyways, I tried the phpbb converter on my popular forum (miragesource.com), and found several bugs with it. It does not convert over any user accounts, and certain forums, no permissions, not much....  Is there any chance to update phpbb converter to the newest phpbb version? I tried with 2.0.16 (phpbb).

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http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=40567.msg299287#msg299287

I've just tested both the 1.1 and 1.0 converters on phpBB 2.0.16 and they both went fine.  Please make sure you're using the right converter, as per my above post.

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[LPCA]

well since no one updated the phpBB 2.0.xx to SMF 1.1. RC3 script...

and it has issues like the first char in sig (and avatar?), errors that you cant bypass without editing (email, msn, priv_msg, etc) and even the attachment bug (step2, last substep, loops around and never finishes if you dont have attachment mod on phpBB) i decided to change it and make it available

here's the fixed files:
hxxp:clientes.netvisao.pt/lpcalg/convert-no-attach.php [nonactive]
hxxp:clientes.netvisao.pt/lpcalg/phpbb2_to_smf_fixed.sql [nonactive]
(this PHP script won't import attachments, use original PHP file for this)

and the original files:
hxxp:clientes.netvisao.pt/lpcalg/convert.php [nonactive]
hxxp:clientes.netvisao.pt/lpcalg/phpbb2_to_smf.sql [nonactive]
both files from www.simplemachines.org download page

as soon as some admin/mod tests/compares this with the original, please update/replace the original files. i don't need recognition on this, just update it so i can remove the files from my ISP FTP

btw, to fix the PMs, a way of doing it is issuing this SQL command:

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UPDATE `smf_pm_recipients`
SET `labels` = -1

and ever wonder how to change the email and msn fields to lowercase?

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UPDATE `smf_members`
SET `emailAddress` = LOWER(emailAddress)

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UPDATE `smf_members`
SET `MSN` = LOWER(MSN)

i also think the admin account (id=1) should not be removed from the database, prior to importing the phpBB db...

i wasted some time experimenting these fixes before noticing them a few minutes ago scattered on the forum... oh well
enjoy

[Oldiesmann]

well since no one updated the phpBB 2.0.xx to SMF 1.1. RC3 script...

and it has issues like the first char in sig (and avatar?), errors that you cant bypass without editing (email, msn, priv_msg, etc) and even the attachment bug (step2, last substep, loops around and never finishes if you dont have attachment mod on phpBB) i decided to change it and make it available

We're still working on the issues. You should have posted in one of the other topics about phpBB to SMF instead of responding to an ancient one...

[LPCA]

i think this topic is as visible as the other ones. spread the message, let's get this fixed