Question phpbb3 to Kunena

Hi guys,

look here for latest update Kunena Importer

Regards

Wow, ok... Long time I've been looking for that.

I would have simple question however. I tried the long way to migrate (PHPBB to FB to Kunena 1.0.8 to Kunena 1.5) and figured out that PHPBB user IDs weren't finally matching J! users ID...

Did anyone tried that component (Kunena Importer) ? Any result or feedback forum ?

Hi,

no it's not released yet, when is finished Matias will announce that.

Regards

Ok... Then we cannot download it now, right ?

Or I am maybe too noob to know how to get it...

Hi,

Yes, right you can't download.

Wait some days

Regards

Latest news:

Kunena Forum Importer now successfully imports most of the database tables to Kunena. This includes part of the configuration, all categories and messages, subscriptions, session information, etc, etc.. Moderators and forum permissions (and maybe something else) are still missing.

Images/files are not yet imported, but I'm planning on making it also automatic. Actually this is not a big issue as this is easy to do manually, but..

There's one huge issue: mapping users from phpBB to Joomla. Many phpBB integration components do not automatically add user into Joomla if you register in phpBB and vice versa. Also allowed characters for username are different and there may be other surprises, too, which makes mapping users a hard problem to solve. So now the only major obstacle is to get user mapping to work so that there will not be too many problems after conversion.

If someone has a good way to solve this problem or more knowledge in the subject, please come forward and participate in this conversation.

I know howto hack users into Joomla (I've already done it), but how to make conversion reliable and not needing manual changes -- that's not too easy.