From a phpBB forum with a twist to VB

[Fabien]

I have a small phpBB forum (7000 messages, 500 users) with a standard database, and I would really like to switch to VB.

A specificity of my forum is that it has a lot of internal links, ie messages linked to other messages or to other discussions. Of course, I want these links to be active after the conversion.

A condition is of course that, after conversion, the messages and topics numbers are the same in the phpBB and the VB databases. Is this OK?

But of course, it's not enough. Perhaps, the change can be done with SQL commands converting the links? Is it possible? Has somebody already one that?

Cheers, Fabien

[Marco van Herwaarden]

It would be possible, but extreme difficult and no standard software for it. You will probably have to pay someone to do so.

[VietLang]

Yes, it would be very difficult and it won't be cheap. This can be very tedious.

[Fabien]

Why would it be extremely difficult?

Is it because because this condition is not fulfilled: "A condition is of course that, after conversion, the messages and topics numbers are the same in the phpBB and the VB databases. Is this OK?"

Thanks, Fabien

[Reeve of Shinra]

You could probably use mod_rewrite rules so that anyone clicking on the old link will be redirected to the new vb forum link. After import, VB keeps the original thread/post id's in a seperate field which should also help.

[feldon23]

In case it wasn't clear, all of the postids and threadids will change when you import.