# phpBB importer fails to consider empty table prefix correctly
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-importer-fails-to-consider-empty-table-prefix-correctly/47087
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2016年七月11日 11:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-importer-fails-to-consider-empty-table-prefix-correctly/47087 "2016-07-11T11:48:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@palant](https://meta.discourse.org/u/palant)
#### Post date: [2016年七月11日 11:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-importer-fails-to-consider-empty-table-prefix-correctly/47087/1 "2016-07-11T11:48:32Z")
phpBB allows empty table prefixes, the table will be named something like `users` rather than `phpbb_users` then. The importer currently fails to consider this scenario right now - if you leave the table prefix empty then it will expect a table named `_users`.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年七月11日 19:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-importer-fails-to-consider-empty-table-prefix-correctly/47087/2 "2016-07-11T19:28:00Z")
Sure @techapj can you add code to handle this case?
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [2016年七月11日 21:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-importer-fails-to-consider-empty-table-prefix-correctly/47087/3 "2016-07-11T21:56:04Z")
I just submitted a PR with a few small changes to the phpBB3 importer and I included a fix for this issue.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4321](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4321)
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2016年七月12日 00:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb-importer-fails-to-consider-empty-table-prefix-correctly/47087/4 "2016-07-12T00:17:55Z")