I’ve been able to run the excellent import script for phpBB and get most of the content moved over with a few tweaks for our situation. Thanks to @neil and everyone who had a hand in the script. I’ve made an addition to the script for placing the imported users into their respective groups also. I’…

Looks great, @casey ! I haven’t had to import category permissions yet, so haven’t done it.

Thanks @neil . I hope the code is helpful. After doing a deep dive into the phpBB permissions scheme I realize that, at least to my understanding of it now, it would be near impossible to do a direct automatic translation of the permissions. As a new user to both phpBB and Discourse I didn’t know th…

Maybe the importer can declare a subset of possible permission setups that it will allow, and make sure that the permissions are normalized into that form before importing?

@riking that would probably work for, at least, getting a beginning set of permissions in place. In our situation it would have been removing “everyone” from all categories and then mapping “See” “See / Reply”, “See / Reply / Create” to the relevant phpBB3 permissions and groups. Turns out this is b…

Importing phpBB group/forum permissions

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gerhard (Gerhard Schlager) May 19, 2021, 3:09pm 8

The latest version of the script imports groups.

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