Migrating PHPBB to Kunena in Joomla 2.5

[Evangeline93]

Hello!

I am trying to figure out how to migrate PHPBB to Kunena in Joomla 2.5. The only tutorial I have been able to find pertains to Joomla 1.5. Being that so much as changed since Joomla 1.5, I am worried about trying this migration.

Here is the tutorial that I found on how to do it with Joomla 1.5: http://www.kunena.org/docs/index.php?ti ... _to_Kunena

Thank you so much!

Jennifer

[pe7er]

What if you migrate phpBB3 to Kunena on Joomla 1.5 first, then migrate to Joomla 2.5 & upgrade Kunena?

Maybe you'd better ask this specific question at the fromum from the Kunena developers:
http://www.kunena.org/forum/index

[Muug]

Evangeline, I face the same problem. Last week I found out that there exists a Kunena Forum Importer which can only be used to copy the phpbb3 content to a Kunena 1.7 forum. Which I did. This worked really great ! Everything got copied : categories, topics, replies, users, avatars, signatures, attachments. And all the users received a mail with a new password.
But next I tried to upgrade from Kunena 1.7.2 to Kunena 2.0.3 which was no problem. Untill I found out that all my topics had become 43 years old ! Really weird. I'm still working on this one, to get it solved.

[thomasjojo]

yes, this is a problem.

problem is, I managed to import the phbb3 to a joomla 1.5 site (Kunena), but upgrading this joomla with the Kunena is a nightmare now in 2.5. ( I managed to do so a year ago, )

What I would like to find is a Kunena importer for 2.5 - is that available?

Thomas

[beau18907]

I did this for a client, she is running J1.5.
I got the info from the Kunena forum.

The secret is that you must must have Kunena 1.7 installed.
Then use the importer.
Once that is complete, you can upgrade to the latest version of Kunena.

But check to make sure you don;t first need to incrementally update Kunena.

Only thing it didn't carry over was the user names and passwords. Rather a sticky issue trying to combine them, we just forced everyone to use their Joomla login and establish new links to their posts.

[thomasjojo]

yes, I sorted it, by the 1.7 Kunena in joomla 2.5

Then I upgraded to 2.0.3 and lost all content, but I found the Kunena forum: http://www.kunena.org/forum/K-2-0-Gener ... n?start=10

1) Make backup

2) Go to phpMyAdmin or similar tool and run the code from below (change both #__ to your database prefix):
UPDATE #__kunena_topics AS tt
INNER JOIN (
SELECT thread, MIN(hold) AS hold FROM #__kunena_messages WHERE hold IN (0,1) GROUP BY thread
) AS c ON tt.id=c.thread
SET tt.hold = c.hold
WHERE tt.moved_id=0

3) Go to Kunena backend >> Forum Tools >> Recount Statistics and run the action without changing any parameters.

PS. This bug is only present in Kunena 2.0.3 and can be avoided by upgrading first to Kunena 2.0.2.
PPS. It's already fixed and the fix will be in the next version.


and that worked. Now Im probably just do it over, this time WITH all the users too. I just didnt migrate them..


Thanks.

[simit]

Hi!
What is the difference Kunena with PHPBB?
I am using Joomla 2.5, you can use either the forum suggest for me?
Thank you

[tom_cat]

@simit, Kunena is the forum plugin for Joomla, so you can install it on your Joomla and thus have a forum, while phpBB is a standalone forum platform. To integrate it with your website, you will need a bridge.

Since Kunena is easier to set up, I would suggest it.
BTW, if you need to migrate from phpBB to Kunena, I've found a slideshow that shows the whole process: http://[spam]/7mvXy1

[unimaginable]

It is possible to migrate phpBB directly to Joomla Kunena 2.5 using the automated migration tool. It is paid but well at least it doesn't turn your life into nightmare) You can check it out here https://[spam]/QeMQn3