Before you wonder why this is 1.5, yes I am importing from phpBB2, because I'm actually importing from IPB 2.1 > phpBB2 > Drupal all at once.

I imported and all of the signatures got imported into the default input format, which is not BBcode. I'm going to try importing again with BBcode as the default import format, but it would definitely be positive if the input format selected for posts could be used for signatures as well.

And while I'm asking...does password import work from phpBB2? Because it doesn't work in the IPB > phpBB conversion and I want to know if I implement that, if it will import passwords correctly.

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naheemsays’s picture

naheemsays commented

Password import will probably not work, so they will be the same as if you were using phpbb2. I have no idea what IPB uses for its passwords, but if it uses phpass, it is probably possible to, with some custom coding, make it work (you will need to compare the code with the phpbb 2.x version).

How comfortable are you with hacking the module?

You can try to import the signatures into a different format by:

1. Create a new inpour format for the signature.
2. in phpbb2drupal.module, add a line at around line 423, at the end of that array - something like:

'signature_format' => 1

(if that is the new last line in the array, add a comma on the line before to match all the other lines) where 1 is the new input format you created - replace that with whatever the new one is.

You may also want to comment out lines 390 and 391 - replace the current ones with:

// $signature = _phpbb2drupal_strip_bbcode($user->user_sig);
// $signature = _phpbb2drupal_text_encode($signature);

(notice the new two slashes at the start of them).

Let me know if that helps in any way.

meustrus’s picture

meustrus commented

I'd be fine hacking the module, though if making BBcode the default input format works it's probably easier.

IPB 2.1 uses salted md5 password hashes. The password field stored in the database is equal to md5(md5(SALT) . md5(PASSWORD)) where SALT is stored per-user and PASSWORD is the direct user input. How does Drupal store passwords? I've figured out now that the converter software requires a login mod on phpBB to convert the salted password on that user's next login. What can I expect?

naheemsays’s picture

naheemsays commented

Drupal 6 uses md5.

I doubt there is a simple conversion from the IPB passwords to drupal passwords then - best way is to create a new module, maybe fork phpass to use the IPB style passwords (its a small module and that should not be too hard).

The other option is to force all user to create new passwords.

JeremyFrench’s picture

JeremyFrench commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Mass close of D6 issues for this module as won't fix. Please see #1854186: Support for the 6.x branch.