The importer file is attached at the bottom of this post (and if anyone would like to improve it, feel very free).
Things it imports: - topics and posts - members - polls (but not their votes, see below) - forums (but not their permissions, categories, etc) - private messages
Noteable things it doesn't import: - poll votes (phpbb seems to not record individual votes, only totals) - IP addresses (phpbb stores them in some odd non-literal format, appears to be hex)
Please be aware when downloading that this importer has undergone virtually no testing. I was importing a forum that had 3 topics, 4 posts and 1 member -- it is therefore possible that some issues didn't show up for me that will show up with a normally-sized forum.
You should keep your old forum installed, take a few days to look over the WSN Forum imported version and be sure nothing has gone wrong before you direct your posters at the new forum. (Just re-import when you're ready to go live, in order to not lose a few days of posts etc.) Report any bugs/issues in this thread.
Tested with phpBB 2.0.13, but I presume it should work with any 2.x version.
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The importer file is attached at the bottom of this post (and if anyone would like to improve it, feel very free).
Things it imports:
- topics and posts
- members
- polls (but not their votes, see below)
- forums (but not their permissions, categories, etc)
- private messages
Noteable things it doesn't import:
- poll votes (phpbb seems to not record individual votes, only totals)
- IP addresses (phpbb stores them in some odd non-literal format, appears to be hex)
Please be aware when downloading that this importer has undergone virtually no testing. I was importing a forum that had 3 topics, 4 posts and 1 member -- it is therefore possible that some issues didn't show up for me that will show up with a normally-sized forum.
You should keep your old forum installed, take a few days to look over the WSN Forum imported version and be sure nothing has gone wrong before you direct your posters at the new forum. (Just re-import when you're ready to go live, in order to not lose a few days of posts etc.) Report any bugs/issues in this thread.
Tested with phpBB 2.0.13, but I presume it should work with any 2.x version.
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Beginner
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Hi Paul
I've just run this file on import of a phpbb forum (version 2.0.17) with about 100 members, 15 categories (in 2 forums) with about 990 posts.
Initially, there was an error until I renamed the file to phpimport.php (it references that in the actual file you have attached)
Overall the updater worked very smoothly, but pulled all the existing subforums into a forum called 'Test Category'.
Only in a couple of topics it actually dispalys who the last post is from. It also didn't update any avatars.
Hope this is of help to you
Kind regards
ecopixel
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Location: Diamond Springs, California
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Fixed file name, not sure how it got wrong since it was right in my local copy.
Only in a couple of topics it actually dispalys who the last post is from.
That's by design, you're supposed to regenerate after importing. Admin -> Regenerate Counters.