Importing from phpbb - an odd situation

[Pitboss]

Ok so up until about a month ago we were using Vbulliten (version-3.0.0). Then we had a new layout deisgned for the website and with it came a custom forum design - but it used phpbb.

We decided to give it a shot - not really knowing what we were in for.

Turns out we HATE phpbb - and vbulliten blows it out of the water. We badly want to go back to vbulliten now.

So my question is this. Is there a way to import the new phpbb content (users/posts/etc) into my old existing vbulliten forum?

Or does the import automatically overwrite everything - thus losing my old vbulliten content from the past year?

Basically I would like to import the newest content back into the old bord and merge them all together into one vbulliten message board.

Is this possible?

[Colin F]

The import should not overwrite any of your data.

Still, it's always a good idea to backup!

[Pitboss]

Really? That's awesome.

Once again - you guys show your head and shoulders above the rest.

[Pitboss]

Now what if I have identical users?

So two people with the user name "Pitboss" - will it merge them together?

[Steve Machol]

You will have the option to merge users during the import.

[Pitboss]

i am trying to install ImpEx - and in doing so I had to upgrade my forum to 3.0.3 cause it said it was only written for 3.0.1 or higher.

Now I am 3.0.3 and I dont see the option to "Import/Export" under the "Import and Maintenance" section in the Admin area.

Any ideas what I did wrong?

[Kerry-Anne]

upload the impex folder to /forums/ not /forums/admincp/

once you've done that hit refresh in your ACP and it will be at the bottom in the Import and Maintenence section.

I believe you have to be a super admin to see it so double check that in your config.php

[Pitboss]

Yeah it is uploaded in the root vbulliten directory - the "forums" directory.

Checked my config.php and my superadmin is user "1" and thats what I am trying to log in with.

All I see in the "import and manitenance" is :
Databse Backup
Repair Optimize Tables
Update Counters
Diagnostics
Execute SQL Query
View PHP Info

That's all I got.

[Zachery]

Did you download and install impex?

[Kerry-Anne]

Have you edited the config.php file for impex? That's ImpExConfig.php.new and renamed it to ImpExConfig.php?

[Zachery]

If you uploaded the files to the impex folder, inside of the root forum folder the Import line will showup

[Pitboss]

My apologies guys - I had to leave abruptly.

I re-DLed it and re-Installed it and it works. Well it shows up and runs.

Now I am getting errors that certain tables aren't there in the Database. And I get errors when trying to associate members.

[Zachery]

Well What errors? we do need to know :)