# phpBB 3 Importer (old)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-3-importer-old/17397>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 9, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-3-importer-old/17397 "2014-07-09T18:57:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-3-importer-old/17397/3 "2014-07-09T19:43:40Z")

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That’s how I’ve been doing it, but if you can connect to a remote mysql server, then that will work too. Just update the connection info to whatever works in the script.

```plaintext
    @client = Mysql2::Client.new(
      host: "localhost",
      username: "root",
      #password: "password",
      database: PHPBB_DB
    )

```

Connecting to the live production database is probably a bad idea, since data will be changing.

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