Migrating from phpBB2 to vBulletin 3 Gold

edesignuk

Moderator emeritus

Original poster

• Mar 22, 2004

• #1

I know nothing about php/mySQL, but I'd like to migrate my forums (as small as they are 🙁) over to vB3. Has anyone done this? Can it be done? How is it done?

Many thanks!

 

Rower_CPU

Moderator emeritus

• Mar 22, 2004

• #2

I think the database tables used by vB and phpBB are probably very different from one another, and from what I saw on their respective sites there's no conversion from one to another.

It might be possible to export the table info as text files, modify it to match the new bb and then import, but that'd be a stretch.

Good luck. 🙂

 

edesignuk

Moderator emeritus

Original poster

• Mar 23, 2004

• #3

Well, I've been looking in to this more, apparently there is a migration tool from phpbb2 to vB 2.3.4, from there you can migrate from vB 2 to 3...I duuno if it's worth it really.

 

R

redkore

macrumors member

• Mar 23, 2004

• #4

Why do you want to move?

Also, don't you need to pay for vB?

P.S. phpBB's coming out with v2.2 "sometime soon". Looks like it'll have lots of nice new features.

 

edesignuk

Moderator emeritus

Original poster

• Mar 23, 2004

• #5

redkore said:

Why do you want to move?

Click to expand...

Becasue vB3 is many, many times better than phpbb2.

redkore said:

Also, don't you need to pay for vB?

Click to expand...

You don't need to 😉

redkore said:

P.S. phpBB's coming out with v2.2 "sometime soon". Looks like it'll have lots of nice new features.

Click to expand...

I still can't imagine it even coming close to the features of vB3.