PHPbb Data to Vbulletin? is it posible?

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Joined: Mar 2006

Hi, i wasent quite shure where i should post this, so i apologise if it is in the wrong section of the forum.

I currently have phpbb as my forum See Here, and would like Vbulletin but can't at the moment as it is a bit costly, So my plan is to possibly convert to it at a later stage if my website and forum gets populer enough.

What i am wondering is What can i do about the people and posts that are on my phpbb board if and when i change to Vbulletin? Is there any way to transfer all the data over? such as the posts, topics and registered members?

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Greg K's picture

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Looks like you might be able to, see See http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/impex

-Greg

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Joined: Apr 2003

You should have no problem importing your phpBB into vBulletin.
Before your forum gets a lot of traffic you may also want to consider SMF. (Simple Machines Forum)
It's free and it is far more secure and easier to administer than phpBB.

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Joined: Jun 2006

Have done it a few times. Not only is it possible, but it is incredibly quick and easy to do. I was pretty impressed.

Also really impressed by how much of a step-up vbulletin is from phpbb. Not knocking phpbb as it served me well for a long time on a lot of project. VB definitely makes the job of the mods easier.

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