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Old phpBB 1.4.4 to SMF?

Started by fshagan, October 24, 2008, 01:33:00 PM

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fshagan

I'm helping a non-profit organization, and we moved their active forums from phpBB 2.014 to SMF using the converter. 

They also have about 13,000 posts in an old forum using phpBB 1.4.4.  They disabled posting in this old forum, but do have quite a bit of info in it they would like to keep.  phpBB 1.4.4 has several security holes, so we don't want to move it to the new server.

Because there are conflicts in their usernames between the two forums, we want to install a second instance of SMF and import the phpBB 1.4.4 into it, and set it to read only.  But I don't see a converter for this.

The old forum uses just 20 tables, and I'm wondering if I could just map the appropriate table names and use mySQL to import the data into the right tables in SMF.  Has anyone tried this?

ThorstenE

We don't have a converter for phpbb 1.x (because it is very, very old) .. Is it possible to migrate the old phpbb1 to phpbb2 first and then convert it to SMF?

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