Posted by emarinuk on May 27, 2008 at 1:41pm
Hi,
I just got my hands into a new exciting project, which involves the upgrading an exisiting forum from Drupal system to PHPBB.
Being an existing forum, it has some content on it and my clients wants it into the new system. Is there anything already built to perform this task?
Thanks,
Ed
Comments
Hi, not that I know of,
Hi,
not that I know of, sorry. I'm guessing it's not too hard to get the basics working, the tricky part is updating all the cached information (last post for each forum in the forum table etc).
Archiving
I was thinking of making some static-like archive pages for the old content. That way I do not have to worry about importing into phpbb tables. I would only need to retrieve the posts in order and stuff them in easy templates.
By the way, I have seen a lot of comments about trasnporting users from PHPBB into Drupal. What bout the other way around? Manual handling too? ;)
Cheers,
Ed
Archive: That's less
Archive: That's less complicated, you can also keep the old Drupal forum or apply a minimal theme and do a recursive wget to mirror the content in static HTML.
Drupal -> phpBB is automatic, sort of the intended usage.