phpBB => vBulletin & aMember migration

Discussion in 'Integration' started by appthemes, Jul 1, 2010.

  1. appthemes

    appthemes New Member

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    Hi there!

    I currently have a standalone open registration phpbb (3.0.4) forum and I want to move it into a brand new instance of amember and vbulletin (members-only).

    The tricky part is I don't want to migrate over all the phpbb users since they aren't all customers.

    What is the best way to do it?

    I've already imported all my customers into amember so that's the master list. The only problem is then mapping those users to the existing posts once I import the phpbb db into vbulletin.

    Here's what I was thinking:

    1) push amember users into vbulletin db
    2) import phpbb db EXCEPT for the users

    The only problem with this method is I'll have to go back and somehow map users to posts since it's not a straight import from phpbb.

    If I just import the entire phpbb into vbulletin then I'll have passwords that won't match up with amember logins. I'd also have some users that don't belong.

    Has anyone had to do this before? I'd appreciate any suggestions on order and strategy of this migration plan.

    Thanks,

    David
    http://wpclassipress.com

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