Is migrating from phpBB to Discourse a good idea

[neil (Neil Lalonde)]

We don’t have an SMF2 importer yet, because we haven’t had to do an import from SMF2 yet… We have a few import scripts now. If you’re up for it, you can try writing a similar script for SMF2. The hard part is writing the SQL queries to fetch the data in a format that can be imported into Discourse.

We have a phpBB script now.

phpBB 3 Importer (old)

NOTE: This guide is out-dated. Follow this guide instead! I committed a script to import from a phpBB 3 to Discourse, similar to our Drupal, Kunena, and bbPress importers. Contributions and fixes are welcome! Thanks to ruby-bbcode and @haiku’s ruby-bbcode-to-md, some bbcode can optionally be converted to markdown before importing into Discourse. I made a fork that does some conversion that is specific for Discourse. The script will also handle some other phpbb-specific markup, like smileys a…