nizart wrote:
Hi all,
I have a phpbb2 forum : it has about 500 member and I have a joomla site too: it has about 1500 member, and i want to make a forum for my joomla site by converting my phpbb one !
My question is : what will happen for my 500 member of phpbb!? and is it possible to copi them in the user table of joomla ( i.e : there are many simmilar user names in joomla and phpbb)

answer please

The script should merge the users and point their messages to the correct user. The script checks if there is a user with a similar username and if so converts the authorid of the message to the userid of the joomla-user. So in theory it should work perfectly fine. Please make a backup of your db before trying

Thx michiel , i ll try this weekend

Hope somebody can help me out.
I am 'extremely' a newbie - no clue to database etc. Just tinker with free source little bit deriving info from forums.

I am running phpbb 2017 with several MODs. I wish to install joomla and use fireboard.

How can safely do this:
1. Can I install joomla with same database as phpbb resides? or Install separately and copy the phpbb database to where joomla resides? Which is safest? By trying out in the current phpbb database, am I jeoparadizing the existing phpbb while converting to FB? If something goes wrong can I retain/revert back to phpbb and continue?
2.Having several MODs in phpbb-will it conflict the conversion?Especially it has categories heirarchy modification.
3.I am also planning to install CB in joomla. Should I do that after I convert to FB or before?
4. Will it retain all the posts and topics?

Hope somebody can help me out.

thank you,

drb

Post edited by: drb, at: 2007/05/12 17:27

Post edited by: drb, at: 2007/05/12 23:54

1. Yes you can as long as you don;t choose the same table prefixes for any service (i.e. choose jos_ for joomla, phpbb_ for phpbb etc.) The convertor shouldn't overwrite any existing tables but you should always make a backup of any database you have before using any of the tools provided to be on the safe side.

2. It depends if any of the MODs has messed with the database...

3. It doesn't matter. However just to be sure I would install FB and CB first before trying any conversion.

4. The script should retain all posts and topics and it even links authors from phpbb with their correct usernames in joomla.

Good luck!

jaleo wrote:
[quote]Other errors:

[code:1]Warning: Division by zero in /home/caminoes/public_html/motclub/components/com_fireboard/sources/fb_statsbar.php on line 884[/code:1]

[img size=184]http://www.bestofjoomla.com/components/com_fireboard/uploaded/images/error1.GIF[/img][/quote]

i have the same problem..

i notice that if you have no post yet, this error message pops up..

i'm using a clean install of fb 1.0.1 build 1..

Post edited by: freakshowtm, at: 2007/05/16 04:47

Hello,
Wanting to move my phpbb to fireboard, I have tried to use phpbb2fb.php to do it.
I have joomla 4.0.18
Version PHP: 4.3.4
phpbb : 2.0.22

When I launch the phpbb2fb.php file, I have the following error:
///////////

Connecting to Database... OK
Invalid query:
ALTER TABLE `jos_fb_messages` ADD `phpbb_userid` int(10) NOT NULL default '1'
Table 'forum_import.jos_fb_messages' doesn't exist


///////////

I have checked my jhoomla db and the jos_fb_messages is there!

Did I missedsomething... I have been all through the posts on this forum but I haven't found anything.

Thanks for your help. By

Some more precisions, because I am not sur that I have done is ok:
1) I have put on the same server (localhost) the joomla db and the phpbb db
2) I have written in the phpbb2fb.php file, for: //MySQL Database name $db='forum_import';
"forum_import" being the name of my phpbb database;
Is that right???

Me again !!!

Finaly, I have found that the phpbb tables had to be in the same db as joomla. Ok.

So I opened the script and everything worked fine but the importation of the users!

I have this error message :

Connecting to Database... OK
Populating Categories... OK
Populating Messages Table...
Notice: Undefined variable: currenttopicid in d:site_websitephpbb2fb.php on line 120
OK
Populating Messages_Text Table... OK
Populating Users Table...
Notice: Undefined variable: joindate in d:site_websitephpbb2fb.php on line 202

Notice: Undefined variable: lastlog in d:site_websitephpbb2fb.php on line 203

Notice: Undefined property: user_level in d:site_websitephpbb2fb.php on line 206

Notice: Undefined property: user_sig in d:site_websitephpbb2fb.php on line 215
admin: 62,
Notice: Undefined property: user_posts in d:site_websitephpbb2fb.php on line 258

Notice: Undefined variable: joindate in d:site_websitephpbb2fb.php on line 202

Notice: Undefined variable: lastlog in d:site_websitephpbb2fb.php on line 203


and so on.....

Thanks for your help. Bye

again me!
My jos_users table was already populated with a few records.
I wonder if it could be the reason of these error messages...

Any idea?

Solved after many trials, but not knowing why!
Only remaining issue (but not so important): the two following lines bug
// Convert date for last visit and register date.
$registerDate = date( "Y-m-d H:i", $joindate );
$lastvisitDate = date( "Y-m-d H:i", $lastlog );