Moving a forum from SMF to PHPBB

by Bev Clement

Posted: 16 years ago 3 replies

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I am not technically minded, but I can follow instructions.

I have a forum at the moment which is SMF but I want to move it to phpBB because I am changing over to LFM and it automatically signs up people to both the membership area and phpBB.

I have a lot of posts already at the SMF and don't want to lose them, how do I move everything across?

My plan is to move it and see that it is working before deleting the old forum.

#forum #moving #phpbb #smp

KarlWarren 16 years ago

Hi Bev,

I presume you mean SMF?

PHPBB have a community of developers who create plugins, I don't know what version you're running, but here's a link to their forum and a convertor:

phpBB • View topic - [BETA] SMF 1.1 to phpBB3 Convertor

If it's not the same version, dig around the forum or their search - there's a lot there
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  Sid Hale 16 years ago
  
  Hi Bev,
  
  Have you thought about modifying LFM to interface w/ SMF instead?
  
  SMF is a good platform. If you have a good number of users and a lot of valuable posts, I'd hate to see you lose them.
  
  An interface for new signups is less risky than a conversion from SMF to phpBB
  
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