How do i convert SMF to PHPBBFM

[[AF]Jimmy]

Is there anyway to convert SMF into other formats like PHPBB or PHPBB FM

[Amacythe]

There is another post about this... try searching.

Why would anyone want to change from this?

[Jerry]

nick you would have to contact phpBB or phpBBfm about that. phpBB has officailly stated that they are not making a converter till thier phpBB2.2.0 comes out, and phpBBfm is phpBB so

[Chris Cromer]

It's not SMF's responsibility to help you to leave their forum software. Go to phpBB and ask.

[Oldiesmann]

Why do you want to convert to another system? Anything we can do to make you stay?

[ANARCH¥]

perhaps you have to change something...in fact:
you are waiting the request for see what mod or not you will do...
you have to go on phpbb or vb and see what are the most used hacks...and do it.
like this people will have a real pleasure to change for smf. a board with more 200 or 300 addons like phpbb will be always more attractive than a board with 10 or 20 mods. no? and dont tell me about the quality and not the quantity. on a board soft...people need a lot od different addon...only for the fun.

now, u say why change...have you ever thought people was using SMF because they stayed f*ck*d with yabb ? no converter for other board than your is working good....so what the hell...its only because you was yabb team. and all yabb user after pass to yabbse have seen they was stucked on SMF. no other option. you will recieve a lot of i want convert to phpbb or vb...u have to assume.

[andrea]

There is definitely no need to go from YaBBSE to SMF. There are plenty of converters from YaBBSE to other forums.... I am on SMF because I wanted so not because I was forced so.

For those who like mods: there will be many more mods after SMF is final.

In addition: no swearing please.

[ANARCH¥]

not true at all ANDREA. be sure, i have tried all the converter possible. with a big database, theyre is always a problem, when its not the converter himself. i passed hours to test all possibillity, and if phpbb was good at first, i saw he trunck the yabb password to 2 letters...too bad, not compatible for the converting crypted key.
so, i passed to SMF, looking if i was able after to convert to phpbb or vbulletin. now, its not possible. i am not the only.
ah, of course, i understand SMF team isnt here for devellop converter for other board. evident.

[Jerry]

Most reasons I have seen for converting from SMF is that thier friends think it looks childish. It is not SMF's responsibilty to make converters to convert to other forums. If the demand was high enough to convert to other forums they (the other forum softwares) would have converters.

Infact vbulletin does have a converter from SMF, and phpbb will develop one after thier 2.2. One for phpbb is being made by a 3rd party but he does not have time.

If so many people wanted to get away from SMF Anarchy, forums like invision, phpbb, or vbulletin would make converters. But the demand is only a couple people here and there.

More  people are looking to convert to SMF, not get off of it

[[Unknown]]

Most people looking to move from SMF are looking to do so only because they "need" a certain mod (these are usually the "script kiddie" gaming range, who want to have every last thing added on).... frankly, I could do without the type of people who go swearing around and say "gimme, gimme, gimme".  Exactly the same age range.

-[Unknown]

[ANARCH¥]

a new forum like your is cool. and i like it more each day. in fact.
but if you dont devellop the most "popular" mods...what are you waitting for future ? all board develloper have to be open to the user. if not...they stay alone...without users.
i saw a stupid mod few years ago for phpnuke, the weather addon...stupid at all, but all wanted this. so all portal tried to do it. and its not for nuts. its because if i change for your board, its because i can find the same comodity than i had on phpbb for example, and of course, because i can find more than on phpbb comunity.
ah yes...phpbb generated a big community...have u this level for say..no no no, i dont want to make this mod or this other...
well, its cool to speak with you about this subject. its really interresting, thx all for gave me your time for answer.

[andrea]

Sorry I cannot follow you. I would *never* choose a forum program because of mods. Not only simply because I never install mods which I haven't coded myself or which understand the code 100% such that the mod would not prevent me to upgrade the forum and I could recode the mode for any future version. I have seen so many forums which aren't upgraded and which stay on dinosaurus releases because people have mods installed. Mods which are not yet available on the new version. For me is running a forum also a responsibility towards the participiants of my forum. I want to be able to maintain my site whenever needed....

[[Unknown]]

a new forum like your is cool. and i like it more each day. in fact.
but if you dont devellop the most "popular" mods...what are you waitting for future ? all board develloper have to be open to the user. if not...they stay alone...without users.

Wrong.  This is only your experience in running or participating in forums that cater to the type of people you talk about.

First of all, the phpBB team doesn't make any of those mods.  So trying to tell us that we should make the mods you want just because you don't know how and comparing it to phpBB won't float anyone's boat.  So we don't develop them, just like phpBB doesn't develop them.  No different.

Many many many more forums are run with little or no mods than those with mods.  And, I can tell you that a lot of people OUTSIDE the niche you're talking about would dislike a forum with too many wingdings, and prefer not to have them.  These people choose the forum software for its security, for its weight on the server, and for its base features and cleanliness.

You want shop mods and so forth... just wait.  They'll be made, I may even make one.  But... I don't have to, and it's DEFINITELY not going to make everyone stop using SMF if I don't.

If you were right, phpBB "FM" would be much more popular than phpBB.  Supermod would be more popular than YaBB SE.  But they aren't.  Because such "modded" packages are BY NATURE less secure than what they are based on.  They never get updated properly.  They always have (I'm generalizing, I haven't seen phpBB "FM") people of less skill working on them, and... eventually people move on.

For example, we've had a lot of people move from Supermod (the YaBB SE equivalent to phpBB "FM", which you could have found and changed to had you looked as hard as you implied that you did) to SMF... because they know this product is going more places.  Again... if you were right, the opposite would be true.  So many would want to move from SMF to Supermod that there'd be a converter from SMF to Supermod.

It's not happening though.

-[Unknown]

[ANARCH¥]

that was a clear answer.

i present my apologies to all dev team and users for my judgement errors.

[[AF]Jimmy]

The only reason i want to convert back to PHPBB FM is becuase i think it was pre mature to convert to SMF. You guys still have alot of work that needs to be done to bring you up to speed.


Here are some features i would really like to see before i come back.

-Forum Member Ranks with ability to set rank images. (im not refering to membergroups)
-Themes, i cant find anything on the net other then the hand full you have on your local site here
-the format in which recent posts are displayed is retarted all you need is the name of the topic and who posted it.
-The format for shout box is also retarted just need the shout and who posted it


I think overall you guys need more time to work on your forum its nice but there is alot of stuff you still havent got incorperated into your forum yet and im sure your backed up on requests becuase ive seen your forum request section.

cheers
PHPBB FM ROCKS!

[Oldiesmann]

Ranks - create a new membergroup, make it so it isn't based on posts and choose whatever image you want for the star image. Then just assign someone to that group. That's it. It's quite simple.

Themes - I'm sorry you're not satisfied with the selection of Themes here, but SMF has only been available to the public since March, and has only been in the Release Candidate stage for a few months. Prior to this the code changed so much with each release that many people didn't want to make Themes because they basically had to re-write them everytime a new version was released.

Recent posts - If you don't want the time of the last post displayed, simply modify your template files and remove that. Most people find that quite useful.

Shoutbox - Nobody's forcing you to use the shoutbox mod. There are plenty of other shotbox scripts on the web. Feel free to use those instead.

I'm sorry you weren't pleased with this system. Perhaps next time you will do more research before deciding to convert to another forum system. It is very rude to convert to a system and then ask the developers of that system how to convert it to someone else's system. Go bug the folks who made phpBB FM.

[Grudge]

Frankly, everybody is entitled to their opinion and you can't please everybody all of the time. Just because something is different to what you are used to doesn't make it "retarded". As for the shoutbox, I have no idea what you mean. I wrote the shoutbox mod and it's a simple "fill in the text box" and the shout appears - not sure what else you'd want? As Oldiesman said ranks do exist (Assuming you mean based on posts - I can't see us ever doing ranks based on karma).

Themes are few and far between due to the age of SMF - that said the themes which do exist are damn good. Recent posts is just a matter of opinion - wouldn't say it's retarded to list the contents of the post - saves the time of going through each one bit by bit.

Please remember that though SMF may not share every feature with other software it has many things people like phpBB don't have, like attachment manager, proper permissions and sub boards out of the box.

[Jerry]

I am friends with Nick there, now that I finally know the reasons why he does not like SMF I will try my best to help him out with that

[Trekkie101]

Right ive read this and think this is stupid, SMF is better than phpBB anyday, phpBB is supported by a horrible community who just moan about everything. SMf has proven itself to me and i love it, oh and go ak microsoft if they will help you develop a convertor to Mac, will they NO! goto asda (wallmart) and ask them to help you choose similar products in Tesco (These are british stores) and they wont help you, goto the milk factory and ask them to tell yuo why cola is better they wont, look goto phpBB and get argued to by there members then come back here begging to use SMF.

Trekkie and his 2 Cents.

[Amacythe]

I'm amazed this thread hasn't been locked.

I believe that everyone has a right to an opinion, however when someone is ignorant to the abilities of the software and is too proud to ask for help, they have no right to put the product down.

Hey Nick, try asking questions about how to do things, or take the time to explore the potential of SMF before spouting off that something is better.  You may be pleasantly surprised at how many people here would help you out, and maybe even write some of the mods you want for you. 

As for the different themes, maybe you could create one yourself and share it with others.

I suppose it is a good thing no one asked my opinion of this entire thread.  I have a right to my opinion as well, and fortunately I am also tactful enough not to speak MY opinion.