By therobyouknow on

Hi
I see that there is a phpbb conversion script to totally convert and migrate a phpbb forum into a proper native drupal one.

But I need it for drupal 5 - it is only available for drupal 4.7.

So can I:
1) set up a separate drupal 4.7 site, convert the phpbb forum there
2) then upgrade this drupal 4.7 site to drupal 5.
3) then merge the site with another existing drupal 5 site.
4) use organic groups (og) to make the phpbb private areas private on the converted drupal forum
how do i do 3) ?

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naheemsays’s picture

naheemsays commented

phpbb2drupal also supports Drupal 5.

http://drupal.org/project/phpbb2drupal

Admittedly there is an annoying spelling mistake at one point where you may need to clean up the url manually(to go to the actual update page you need to remove the html tags that surround a part of the link), but apart from that, it does the job.

No idea how to do step three of what you mentioned, but what would be easier is to make a backup of your site (which I assume is Drupal 5 based), merge the forums, and if it works, replace the main site with that backup.

therobyouknow’s picture

therobyouknow commented

thanks - that's fantastic news about phpbb2drupal working for drupal 5.

How would I merge the forums? Is there a drupal tool or otherwise to do that?

Otherwise I'm thinking I would just export the MySQL queries and import them into my site.