Question phpbb3 to Kunena

Hi Fran,

If there's no other user logged on J! but you, step by step method should be fine... but you should first try on a separate database. If not working, you can still try Jfusion to sync users among forum-site.

Else... there's still some place here to pray Matias ^^.

i tried the step by step method (using fireboard) as described on this thread. And it mostly worked. I say "mostly" because it appears that the passwords for each account was not migrated. Is there any way to get around this, or do the users all have to come and re-new their passwords?

One problem is I can't seem to get ANY login to work! I tried clicking on the "sync users" button, but when I do I see no activity whatsoever. It just gives a generic: "Sync FireBoard user table with Joomla! user table" message

Am I doing something wrong?

I even upgraded my own previous phpbb3 username to a super admin status, but I couldn't log into back end, because it said that username and password did not match, even though I did type in the right password. If I go to user manager, I can set a new password for myself and then i can log in, but i can't log in without doing that.

My users will be very annoyed at having to reset their passwords. Is there any solution for this?

Nevermind, I did what i should have done at first and that is to do a search of the forum. I found this and it works!

www.kunena.com/forum/101-solved-or-prior...a-step-by-step#12633

I have one issue remaining and that is the avatars. It seems the avatars were not imported. Does anyone know how to import them so that they are linked to the same users as before?

Any news?

I really, really need this. I have 1100 users to move from phpbb3 to Joomla and Kunena.

Fran, if you succeed to and your only trouble is user avatars... I guess you'll be able to find the trick over forums (I remember having seen that somewhere) else Google's your friend ^^.
We could also think that users may be able to upload them back, cleaning up old inactive users data, no ?

Matias > Did you succeed to step ahead regarding user sync ?

Edit :
I succesfully corrected the user sync problem after migration with a SQL update of Kunena's tables.

1- I exported the PHPBB3_users and jos_users table to excel, mapped new ids, removed bots and created a CSV file with phpbb3_former_id and jos_final_id that I imported via PHPMyadmin.

2- Second step is to update the kunena's user table with new ids :

One issue remain is to have each user post count with REAL post count... only found one hack to do it ... Any implementation foreseen ?

One question more : my current migration is only for tests purpose. Can I delete all jos_fb tables and Kunena before final migration ? Would that make any issue to delete the DB tables ? Will Kunena/Fireboard reinstall them itself ?