phpbb to vbulletin questions

[clivegriffiths]

I'm seriously considering moving from phpbb to vbulletin but have a couple of questions about transfering my forum over. Apologies if any of these are stupid questions, I've very new to all this forum stuff and know little about the basics of php, etc.

1) If I transfer from phpbb, does it just copy over all the basic data (i.e members, forums, posts, etc) and insert it into the standard vbulletin theme? or will it retain any of my styling from phpbb?

2) I have scripts in my php templates for things like adsense and other affiliate ads, will it copy these into the appropriate templates or will I have to re-insert these scripts myself in to the new vbulletin templates?

[SpArKs]

1) If I transfer from phpbb, does it just copy over all the basic data (i.e members, forums, posts, etc) and insert it into the standard vbulletin theme? or will it retain any of my styling from phpbb?

2) I have scripts in my php templates for things like adsense and other affiliate ads, will it copy these into the appropriate templates or will I have to re-insert these scripts myself in to the new vbulletin templates?

1) + 2) Just place vBulletin in another directory. Then port the information over.

[feldon23]

None of your styling or template changes are carried over from phpBB. But you'll find that adding these changes is much much faster with vBulletin and that your changes do not need to be reapplied every time a new version of vBulletin comes out*.

*Some template comparison (using the built in Template Compare and Template History features) may be required if a newer version of vBulletin fixes a critical bug in a template which you have modified.