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  • axa
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  • From: Charlotte, NC
  • Registered: 2007-02-18
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Topic: PHPBBFM ---> punbb

I have successfully installed a punbb forum, index page and a few mods, and am loving it. I have 2 other installations of phpbbfm and would like to migrate them to punbb.
I see the tool does over migrations from phpbb, but phpbbfm is not listed. I have a suspicion that since phpbbfm mucks around with the database so much that an attempted migration would be disastrous.

Anyone ever attempted phpbbfm ---> punbb with success ?

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  • From: Cork, Ireland
  • Registered: 2007-01-18
  • Posts: 92

Re: PHPBBFM ---> punbb

goodness, phpbbfm looks like a really bloated version of phpBB which itself is full of a lot more than average features. but i'm afraid i've never done any forum migration myself however with some planning it shouldn't be too hard and you will probably be best to use the vanilla phpBB convertor but you will lose some data regardless for features that PunBB doesn't support obviously.

the mods you do install, say PM mod etc, you should modify the convertor of phpBB so that it takes into account PMs as well and so on so that you don't lose these.