Important phpBB Migrator: Looking for phpBB3 users that want to convert their data to Kunena 1.6

please, spend on the converter. we can not wait

rinuccio sp wrote: please, spend on the converter. we can not wait

Well the converter have been there for months - my modified one for weeks:

www.kunena.org/forum/134-k-15-installati...rom-phpbb3-to-kunena

I had seen him a few days ago
Unfortunately there are still attachments

then the transition fb >> kunena 1.5 >> 1.6

is not welcomed by all.
anyway thanks for your work and your availability and sorry for my bad english :blush:

ummmmmmmmmmmmmm, so.

What about Joomla 1.6?

I think the topic went wayyyyy offbase as this talk all is about people migrating into J! 1.5...

please answer...

ok. thank you.

I think YOU'RE way off base as this is about migrating phpBB to KUNENA 1.6 and has nothing to do at all with Joomla 1.6.

Gentlemen: There are several issues involved here. The main issue is how to migrate from one forum structure into Kunena.

There are two parts to every forum:

1. The database that stores the messages, the users, and various configuration settings that govern how the forum operates and these are easy enough to change with a few well-crafted SQL statements.


2. The file storage system that handles attachments (uploaded images and files); attachments are typically stored outside the database. The difficulty here means that you need operate on the file structure. The file structures in Joomla differ between K 1.5 and K 1.6 and so, in that respect, the compatibility of K 1.5 or K 1.6 with a particular version of Joomla may be relevant to this discussion.

Ideally, there should be something that exists outside Kunena to the migration from something else into Kunena. Even more ideally, in my personal opinion, this standalone function should also install Kunena onto whatever Joomla platform is running at the time. But these things take time to develop and they require support from the community to develop them.

There is a genuine need - and a ready market - for this kind of activity. Many players, from the "big end of town", many of them saddled with large legacy forums, are looking at Kunena and Joomla to run their operations. People may be surprised to learn that a lot of the development work that has gone into Kunena resulted from the investment of these few "major players" from which we all freely benefit.

Kunena has always been a free product, will continue to remain a free product, and the support on this forum will be free to all who want to use it. But, while there are great plans for extending and enhancing Kunena in many ways, there is a cost borne by a small handful of people who give their time freely to the project. Kunena is a community-driven project and members of the community can contribute in many ways: financially; developing ideas and software; active participation with testing; documentation; and helping one another with solutions to each other's problems on the forum.

I don't know much about phpBB3 or how to convert it to Kunena. I don't know much about how to convert any other forum to Kunena either, for that matter. I agree that it's important to this project that we find answers that actually help people. I do not think it helps this discussion if we dwell on the technical limitations of the solutions that have been offered.