there currently is not a converter for such though several people had gone off to do such, but none have reported back. its certainly possible, with the hardest part being the user db conversion.

perhaps some will take you up on your offer for a paid converter.

Thanks for the reply Mr Papa! It’s a shame there is no converter as phpBB is such a pain and we really want to move to simple:press somehow.

If there is anyone with the expertise and knowledge to help us please get in touch.

And if you do – can you get in touch with us as well please !

Looks like this isn’t possible then!

Can vbulletin be converted to simple:forum? If so we could convert phpBB to vbulletin then that to simple:forum?!!

Of course it’s possible! You didn’t give it long…

If there is SMF converter I wold be rally gratefull! Please mail me if you have one 🙂

We migrated from postnuke w/ phpbb14 to wordpress and spf. I doubt our converter is of use to anyone, because phpbb14 for postnuke is rather bent on a db table level, but it was possible without too much effort.

Just do a clean install, generate forums, users and a few topics, then look at the db tables of both the old and new system. I am told it wasn’t too hard. Only challenge i think was the sorting/order of articles within the same topic.

M.

Still impressed. I hope you can settle down with SPF for a while!

I’m surprised there isn’t any sort of converter for these popular pieces of forum software.

Is there any hope of converting phpBB to Simple:Press?

frankly, its not all that hard… just no one has taken to doing it… the biggest issue is phpbb has its own user db vs wp… Several version back, I wrote three importers for other wp forum plugins… they are now a bit out of date, but an example of one is located on our wiki for anyone to use as a reference.

unfortunately, Andy and I are a two man team and just havent found the time to write an importer yet. we would love to add some additional folks to the team and help work on issues such as importers, but we havent had any offers 😉

we still hope to do it one day, but we are still getting more feature requests than import request. we want to do it all and please everyone, but just dont have the time…

anyone want to take this task on?

Anyone know how to convert from phpBB to SP manually, without a converter? I don't mind doing some work, even in mySQL, but I'm not a developer …

Has anyone done this via any means?

Thanks!

Mike

I believe a few people have but they didn’t share…

Well i am also looking for converter of IPB

you will want to follow along in this topic

https://simple-press.com/support-forum/simplepress-version-4-2/transfering-forum-posts-and-users-from-phpbb-in-to-spf/

its almost done… phpbb and ipb…