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Description: Step by step instructions on how to convert the XMB forums to phpBB.

Author: Callisto

Date: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:51 pm

Type: Tutorial

Keywords: xmb, xmb convertor, xmb to php, convertor

Category: Miscellanea

After downloading the convertor from the Downloads page on phpbb.com, follow these instructions.

1) Download phpBB from phpbb.com and install it on your account using the instructions provided and in the manual. Make sure you install phpBB in the same database as the XMB forum.
2) In the convertor download, extract all the files to a folder so you can edit them. Then open up _config.php so you can edit it. You need to edit a number of variables:

Code:

$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbname = "xmb16";
$dbuser = "root";
$dbpasswd = "";

These details you entered when installing phpBB so you should have no problem with them. All you need to do is replace them. For example if you database name was mydb then you would enter:

Code:

$dbname = "mydb";

Now you need to edit the following:

Code:

$xmb_prefix = "xmb_";
$phpbb_prefix = "phpbb_";
$xmb_path="../xmb";

The xmb prefix is what the XMB forum tables have in front of them, same for phpBB prefix - you set this in the installation of phpBB. The XMB path is where you have XMB installed in relation to this file.

Finally, this:

Code:

$cnv_all = 0;

If you set this as 0, if will convert everything possible in your forum.
3) Now upload this _config.php and _xmbtophpbb.php to the root of your phpBB installation directory and load _xmbtophpbb.php in your browser. It should then convert!!!