# 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:** ![haiku](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/haiku/32/103858_2.png) [@haiku](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haiku)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-3-importer-old/17397/5 "2014-07-09T22:57:21Z")

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> [@neil](#):
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> Thanks to ruby-bbcode and @haiku’s ruby-bbcode-to-md, some bbcode can optionally be converted to markdown before importing into Discourse.

I’m glad you found what I did useful… I believe this is the first time code I wrote has been adopted by an open-source project 😃

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