Is there someone here that already have migrated a phpbb 3.1.x forum to nodebb?
phpbb2.x forum is extremely old. Most people use 3.0 and the latests is 3.1
I guess that I must migrate to 0.6.x first (0.6.x is latest stable right?) How much information will I loose?
https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-import-phpbb
Some issues I maybe will have is
The projekt i want to migrate is https://www.freegame.nu
Please advice or should i wait ?
I'm not entirely sure whether this plugin is compatible anymore, but it's definitely worth a shot. To my knowledge the importer does not alter your MySQL tables in any way, just reads the data and imports it into NodeBB.
If its was written for only phpbb 2.x than I dont think it will work. A lot of changes from 2.x to 3.1.x 
I just made this thread in hope that someone that already done this migration would see it 
I dont think many people use 2.x any more. Its really old. When I get the time to try it myself I will post my progress.
I am new to all this (nodejs, nodebb), but it is exciting indeed!
@J3nkl3r plugin will import only: users, categories, topics and posts. And It seems that sql queries should be adjusted for phpbb 3 schemas 
I'm working on very personal importer for my very old IPB forum (6+ years), and I would like to say, that It's much work to do, to import old and thus custom forum to nodeBB
Ok @Nicolas
I hope there are more people out there that uses phpbb 3.1.x that want to migrate to nodebb I am only a PHP dev guy
I made some small changes to the original phpbb exporter:
https://github.com/belstgut/nodebb-plugin-import-phpbb
It seemed to work fairly well with phpbb 3.1.x on nodebb 0.6x
On 0.7 I have the doublicate First post problem again. Will look into it next week. (I changed this part of the code from psychobunny version to not even include the first posts in the sql query.) Oh, and Messages arent working either.
But u can test it.
Nice, at this moment I am going to try to setup a 0.7 system to learn more about it
Reading manuals at the moment 
@belstgut Please post your progress in this thread
Hey @belstgut, this might help you out:
I ran into this problem as well on another relatively obscure forum software import. It wasn't worth the effort trying to figure it out, so I just wrote this.
I'm also trying to migrate from an existing phpbb 3.x installation to nodebb. The things preventing me to switch are the private messages, attachments and custom smilies.
The messages seem quite managable to me, but attachments and smilies are more like a big deal I think.
Could you please share your custom code on GitHub so others can benefit from? .
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/2430/emojis-are-nice-but-how-about-our-own-smilies/7
https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-import-phpbb
Support attachments #93
https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import/issues/93
I tried the modified phpbb importer from @belstgut but it didn't work for me. Neither the extended user information like location and so on nor the messages get imported although the queries seem correct to me. The generated SQL Queries also deliver the correct data if I try them manually. Any idea?
I also edited the default plugin to only get the extended user information imported. But this also didn't work. The plugin download was disabled so the changes haven't been overwritten.
I also increased the version and restarted nodebb to ensure the plugin gets loaded in the modified version.
PS: Sorry for the duplicate post. Editing didn't work as I always get an error that the title is to short and needs at leat 3 characters.
@Armadillo said:
I tried the modified phpbb importer from @belstgut but it didn't work for me. Neither the extended user information like location and so on nor the messages get imported although the queries seem correct to me. The generated SQL Queries also deliver the correct data if I try them manually. Any idea?
I think this problem is not with the exporter, but with the importer.
for profile fields it only supports the one shown here: https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import/blob/master/write-my-own-exporter.md#yourmodulegetpaginatedusersstart-limit-callback
Sorry. it was my fault. I modified the phpbb importer plugin in the main node_modules directory and not in the node_modules within the main importer plugin.
Ok user's birthday, website, location and signature now works.
I also got messages to work, but there is a large amount of 15% which hasn't been imported. I'll see if I can find the reason.
As soon as I have a stable solution I'll upload it to GitHub and launch a pull request. 
@Armadillo said:
PS: Sorry for the duplicate post. Editing didn't work as I always get an error that the title is to short and needs at leat 3 characters.
Please submit a bug.
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues
I also got messages to work, but there is a large amount of 15% which hasn't been imported. I'll see if I can find the reason.
Again. You can send your mysqldump (send an email to plugin author) and your issue may be resolved.
https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import/issues
@nhl.pl said:
@Armadillo said:
I also got messages to work, but there is a large amount of 15% which hasn't been imported. I'll see if I can find the reason.
Again. You can send your mysqldump (send an email to plugin author) and your issue may be resolved.
https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import/issues
I already fixed it myself.
