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Title: Import multiple phpbb sites, and merging user accounts?
Post by: en_shua on November 29, 2006, 11:51:55 AM

SMF Version: SMF 1.1 RC3
I am wanting to import two phpbb forums from technically two different sites into one SMF installation. The hurdle with this will be that some accounts will be duplicate (the same from both forums), and some will be different, but will need to be merged into one account. That is, John has account UserA in phpbb1 and UserB in phpbb2. When I import these into SMF, is there a way to merge both of these accounts into UserA?

I realize that my question is confusing. If I need to clarify anything, let me know.

Title: Re: Import multiple phpbb sites, and merging user accounts?
Post by: Oldiesmann on November 29, 2006, 01:26:30 PM

SMF currently doesn't have a merge script, but I'm pretty sure phpBB does, so you'll need to merge both phpBB boards into one and then convert to SMF.

Title: Re: Import multiple phpbb sites, and merging user accounts?
Post by: en_shua on November 29, 2006, 02:06:15 PM

Thanks for pointing me in that direction. I found something that looks like it will work.

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=203648&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

The updated script in on the 5th page, but still one should read all the pages to make sure there aren't problems with the script, etc.

Thanks again.

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