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JamesUS
25 May 2001, 20:58
I am currently working on this - user import is done and I will look at forums/posts/threads tomorrow :)

If there is anyone who is looking for this and would be willing to help test it please post here so that I can contact you in a few days to test the hack :)
Prezident
28 May 2001, 06:36
Yes, I am interested in this. I just purchased a license for vBulletin, and am currently running phpBB 1.4.0, and would most likely like to import everything I can as soon as possible.

Please let me know.:)
JohnM
28 May 2001, 15:32
a friend of mine is a good portion done with this already...
Freddie Bingham
28 May 2001, 16:47
Doesn't hurt to have two as the best features of both can be combined.
jvv
28 May 2001, 20:13
I'm interested in this too, I'm currently waiting for someone to write a conversion tool before I'm gonna purchase a license.
jvv
02 Jun 2001, 16:27
Can I ask for the status on this hack ? Is it still beeing worked on ? Really looking for this so that I can convert my board to vBulletin.
Kartman
06 Jun 2001, 15:57
Yeah, would be very kewl!
If it's finished. plz send it to Kartman2000@gmx.de .... THX!!!

Greetz
Kartman
Prezident
06 Jun 2001, 20:15
I guess I really don't need the script anymore as I already started over a long time ago.

I wasn't too far into phpBB, so I just had every register again, and start over.

I am a lot happier with VB. The features are more robust, and seem to work much better. Now if I could only get good at customizing things.

All I have been able to change so far is colors and small things like that.
Kartman
07 Jun 2001, 05:19
and how did you get the posts from phpBB to vBulletin ??
Prezident
09 Jun 2001, 04:01
I didn't import anything. I just started over.

I am one of those impatient people that doesn't like to wait for anything.

No big deal though, I had only been running phpBB for 3 or 4 weeks, and didn't have that much to lose.

Most people were happy to start over with something better.
Kartman
09 Jun 2001, 07:10
hm.
ok.
JamesUS
09 Jun 2001, 10:04
Sorry about the delay in replying, I was on vacation last week :)

It is about half done, at the moment it imports users and styles, Still working on posts, threads, PM's, etc.
Kartman
09 Jun 2001, 13:52
kewl .... please mail me or just reply ;) when it's finished!

thanx.
kartman
gmtalk
10 Jun 2001, 04:58
I am very interested in this. I have other boards that want to merge with my site and this would be great if I had this because I have 2 sites that are running PHPBB.

Please email me when there is more info on this.
Kartman
16 Jun 2001, 16:41
I think James won't finish this Hack :(
Could plz somebody else make this hack or say me how to import users with phpMyAdmin (the passwords are not readable, coded ....)

peaze
Kartman

PLZZZ!!
Kyle_TX
24 Jun 2001, 07:32
It would be great to have this conversion script, I will purchase vBulletin if I can get one somewhere. I tried one that i saw by searching the forums here, but it only imported 8 people, then crashed. The phpbb database I have has about 80 members, with 25k posts. been up for 2 months, too far into it to just start fresh.
FQuist
24 Jun 2001, 11:11
http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21064 - here's one.

And if this is the one that crashes, please inform the creator next time so he can fix it!
Kyle_TX
24 Jun 2001, 19:37
Yes that's the one, it works great for the first 8 or 9 users. I sent the author an email offering to help get the problems resolved, since he doesn't have a large phpBB database to work with. Hopefully we can get it working!

Thanks,
Kyle
jvv
24 Jun 2001, 19:58
I tried it, and it chokes majorly on fields that contain ' adding addslashes around the fields where he replaces ' with \\' helps to some extent.

Personally I removed the homepage field from the conversion and added addslashes around the user signature field from there on it went smoothly till the post conversion. But since I only needed the user database I didn't look any further into it.
Juan
10 Jul 2001, 23:11
Has anyone made this script to work yet?
magicscripts
13 Jul 2001, 02:32
Yes the script is now working 100%, Nebula will post it here in a few when he is back in town.

It converted all 100+ users, and 35k posts.

I didn't convert the styles, because I wanted to re-do them anyways. (vBulletin looks so much better than phpBB 'out of the box' IMO)

He should be posting it soon, but if you can't wait email me.
FQuist
14 Jul 2001, 12:11
Yay!
Nebula
14 Jul 2001, 14:52
Well, I'm not gonna post it here, but I'll give you a link to where it is posted ;)

Right here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21064

Hope it works for you guys. It did for me. Let me know what you think.
Piranha
23 Feb 2002, 02:42
I do not have a license yet! Therefore I am unable to go the URL listed above. Can somebody confirm that this script will work with a 1.4.4 phpbb Board?

I am interested in purchasing vB but I have a big phpbb board that needs to be converted (Users, Categories, and posts).

Thanks!

P.