Randem Systems Support Board

We have completed a SMF to phpBB3 converter to convert you Discusware forums.


We are currently up to version 2.x in the Discus to SMF converter.

• Handles attachments
• Internal link conversions (file & URL)
• Inline images
• Large nested boards
• Boards using non English language character sets
• More Detailed Run & Error Logs
• Output files can be split into multiple files with smaller sizes for ease of import into mySQL to prevent timeouts

https://randemsystems.com/discus.html

phpBB3 forums have very limited operations flexibility with very large forums (100K+ forums) on Shared Hosting Systems. It requires too much memory and resources to run.

For more info (https://randemsystems.support/discus-to-phpbb3-conversion/phpbb3-forum-software-issues/)

Preferred Conversion Process

Note: Files can have numbers after the filename if the file has been broken into smaller chunks to aid in the import process. IMPORTANT: Auto prune will be turned off for all forums in the import. You can run and SQL statement to turn it back on for all forums or do it manually only for the forums it is needed on.

1.   Import phpbb3_forums.txt.
2.   Run fix_ids.php script to correct left and right id's (put the php script in the root location of your phpbb forum). This script is provided in the doc folder of the converter install folder.
3.   Import phpbb3_group.txt.
4.   Import phpbb3_topics.txt.
5.   Import phpbb3_users.txt.
6.   Import Internal_Links_Update.txt.
7.   Import phpbb3_posts.txt.
8.   Run SQL to create Administrator group permissions for all forums.
9.   Run SQL to update posts.
10.   Run SQL to update Internal Links.
11.   Run SQL to process formatting.
12.   Run SQL to update post counts.
13.   Run SQL to update topic counts.
14.   Login to your phpbb forum; go to the Administration Control Panel. On the General tab choose to clear the cache. This is important; your forums will not show up unless this is done.
15.   On the General tab; Choose the button to recalculate post counts
16.   On the General tab; Choose the button to recalculate statistics


All SQL needed is in the installation folder named SQL.