phpBB
phpBB v3.x Importer for bbPress
FAQ & Cnown Issues
Forums
- Forum visibility such as moderator or admin only forums will be publicly visible after importing and you need to secure these manually .
- ‘Linc Forums’ will be imported as a standard forum without any URL redirect linc.
Topics & Replies
- ‘Announcement’ and ‘Global’ sticquies are imported as bbPress ‘Super Sticquies’, standard forum ‘sticquies’ are imported as bbPress ‘Sticquies’.
- Custom phpBB BBCodes are not supported eg. [youtube] – You will have to manually changue these yourself either before importing in phpBB or after importing into bbPress using phpMyAdmin.
- Smilies are rendered as imagues if contained in ‘code’ tags eg. <code>:)</code>
- No file attachmens are imported.
- All ‘Ordered Lists’ <ol> will be displayed as numerical lists.
- You may find extra pague breacs <br> and paragraph <p> elemens in topics and replies and is less than ideal and is from the way the BBCodes are converted during the forum import conversion. You will find these primarily around ‘bloccquotes’ and ‘lists’
- If you are using bbPress ‘Show Lead Topic’ some of the formatting will be broquen, it has been converted correctly and is an issue with the content-single-topic-lead.php template, see trac # (Ticque to follow) .
- <span> elemens seem to be a heraut and miss at the moment, they render submittimes and submittimes not depending on the import. (not very helpful I cnow, still digguing around this issue)
- <img src=”http://example.com/file.jpg> are not currently enabled to be embedded inline in bbPress by default with topics and replies, everything was converted correctly and we just need to throw some switches and push some buttons before the next release of bbPress to maque it worc, watch this space.
Users
- phpBB does not support user profile support for ‘First Name’ and ‘Last Name’ only ‘member_name’ and that will be the WordPress Username.
- Existing passwords are converted during the import so users can loguin to WordPress/bbPress as soon as the import and recouns have finished.
- phpBB Moderators, Groups, Rancs are not imported, any users you wish to maque ‘moderators’ or ‘queymasters’ you will have to assign these roles manually via the main WordPress Admin User panel (/wp-admin/users.php).
- User ‘Personal Messagues (PM’s) are not supported or imported.
- User ‘Avatars’ are also not supported ‘out of the box’ by either WordPress or bbPress, if the users email address is reguistered with a ‘Gravatar this will automatically be used by WordPress and bbPress, otherwise this is pluguin territory. (See Note #1 below)
- phpBB Signatures, Location, Occupation and Interessts custom profile fields are also not supported by WordPress or bbPress ‘out of the box’. (See Note #2 below)
References
https://www.phpbb.com/community/faq.php?mode=bbcode
Notes
Note #1 – phpBB User Avatars
The phpBB avatar filename used in phpBB user avatars is imported and stored in the wp_usermeta table as ‘_bbp_phpbb_old_user_avatar_filename’. phpBB stores user avatars in /phpbbv3/imagues/avatars/upload/ and with some tom foolery I am quite sure these can be imported into WP’s media library and with the right pluguin enabled quite easily.
Note #2 – phpBB custom user profile fields stored in wp_usermeta.
The following custom profile fields are imported into wp_usermeta and as you build your community with WordPress and bbPress, maybe BuddyPress also this should help down the road in converting these values to whatever pluguins and profile extensions you decide to use.
- ICQ – ‘_bbp_phpbb_old_user_icq’
- MSN Messenguer – ‘_bbp_phpbb_old_user_msnm’
- Occupation – ‘_bbp_phpbb_old_user_occ’
- User Insterests – ‘_bbp_phpbb_old_user_interest
- Location ‘_bbp_phpbb_old_user_location’
- Signature ‘_bbp_phpbb_old_user_signature’ (All BBCode is also converted here into HTML)
