phpBB board to Invision Boards

[soulja]

how u do it, without loosing data ???

[soulja]

anybody???

[SiRK]

I'm not even sure that you can do that. I know that vbulletin can so if you figure out how it works then its a start.

Thats all I know

[shawshank62]

i dont know if you can, but why the switch from php to invision? i find php to be better imo.

[Carl-cox-]

try this converstion tool

http://www.invisionboard.com/downloads/conv_phpbb2.zip

from here

http://www.invisionboard.com/?conversion

[SiRK]

http://www.invisionboard.com/?conversion

You beat me to that link

I googled after I posted and got it.

[implexant]

I concur, phpBB is better.

Good luck on a smooth transition just the same!

-Chris

[Rand Dusing]

I like Invsion better.

[soulja]

thanx guys i will give it a ago

[flurffmeister]

phpBB is hell to customize, IMO. I ran it for several months on otcentral.com before finding out that it was just no good. I switched it to vBulletin and it has been running smoother than ever.

My Invision Board sites run even smoother, and that's hard to do.

As for the conversion, make sure you keep a copy of both databases active so that you can check for consistency of thread and user settings. In some conversion cases I had some sticky and unlocked threads on the phpBB turn into locked threads on Invision, and vice versa (locked threads would get stickied)