By metalforever on

Hello, I wish to not use drupal forums any more due to a few complaints from the users. I need to convert drupal to *anything else*. Passwords can be encrypted differently on the target forum software.

Dont say smf because the smf script doesnt work.

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Elteto’s picture

Elteto commented

Just wondering, what was the source of the complaints? There may be an easy way to fix that, instead of having to migrate a whole site.

Especially since you say *anything else*, it does not sound like you researched and identified any replacement options...

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dnewkerk’s picture

dnewkerk commented

I very seriously doubt you'll find anything to convert "from" Drupal forums here. Certainly a variety of ways to convert "to" Drupal forums. Though unlikely, your best bet will be finding a conversion tool at the site of the forum you choose to switch to... however this is unlikely too, as usually they will have scripts like "phpBB to our system" or other common forum software (not Drupal). At best they may have a "generic" import tool which will allow you to import raw data with. You could export the Drupal forum nodes, comments, taxonomy, users (a whole lot of elements) into the necessary format (e.g. CSV or XML) and use their tool to import that data. Unless you're a developer, this will not be easy. If/when you accomplish this much, you'll still need to setup a "bridge" module to connect Drupal and the forum software, so that you don't have to have 2 separate sets of users.

What complaints do your users have with the forums? Are you using only core forums, or augmented via Advanced Forum? If you name some specific issues, perhaps we can point you to solutions, which will be much easier than trying to convert forum software.

silverwing’s picture

silverwing commented

If it's functionality, you can use advanced_forum with some contributed modules http://drupal.org/node/227121 to get to a more 'standard' bb feel.

If you really want to leave the drupal forums behind, you best bet would be trying to convert to phpbb (a difficult example here) then to the system of your choice.

But that probably won't be easy.

~silverwing