# phpBB 3 Importer (old)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-3-importer-old/17397>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [9 Luglio 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-3-importer-old/17397 "2014-07-09T18:57:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![MartyKube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@MartyKube](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MartyKube)\
**Post date:** [4 Agosto 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-3-importer-old/17397/16 "2014-08-04T00:34:40Z")

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I found one minor issue:

```
creating users
Skipping user id 1 because email is blank
      641 / 1041 ( 61.6%) Skipping user id 68191 because email is blank
     1043 / 1041 (100.2%)    
creating categories
    Admin
    The Kiteboarding
    The Gear
    Everything Else
    Snowboarding/Ski
    Other sports - MTB, Wake, SUP, Surf and anything else
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.1.4/lib/active_record/validations.rb:57:in `save!': Validation failed: Category Name is too long (maximum is 50 characters) (ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid)

```

I think this can be fixed by changing the mysql select to trim category names to 50 chars. I’ll put that in a pull request.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/2618](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/2618)

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