can phpbb transfer to VB?

i was wondering if i ran a phpbb forum and it was real active and if i decided to upgrade to vbulletin, is it possible??

can you save all the files and upload to a vbulletin forum??

thanks

PS: whats better, phpbb or SMF??

 

You can transfer all the data from your phpbb forum to vbulletin forum through a free transfer tool from vbulletin, called impex.

 

You can easily migrate your posts and members from phpbb to VB using impex script. You can download the migration script from their member's area.

Kailash

 

The first part of your question has already been answered with VBulletin IMPEX.

In my opinion, smf is leaps and bounds better then phpbb. Mainly due to the security factor. smf has a pretty good reputation of being secure. When a flaw is found, the smf developers release and update in a timely manner.

 

VBulletin includes a conversion script so you can transfer all the data (posts/members, etc)

 

I think all the passwords are reset after migration. Please confirm it.

 

That didn't happen when the phpbb 2.x series forum was transferred to vbulletin, not too sure about 3.x series though.

 

PHPbb has changed hashing method for password in version 3 so I believe we may required to reset the password.

Kailash

 

Yes you can transfer it

 

Using vBulletin Impex Import System
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=92

 

Vbulletin saves password in salted md5 ...

 

How about migrating from SMF to Vbulletin? Will it be a breeze and painless?

 

You will get the list of items which will be migrated to vBulletin from SMF from the following link:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex_smf

The link is for SMF 1.1.4 to vBulletin conversation but I think it applies to latest version of SMF too.

Complete list to migrate from other forums to vBullwtin is available at http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex_tiers

Kailash