Writing about this a little late, but a few days ago I finally tagged the 2.0 release of phpbb2drupal.

The 2.0 release imports from phpbb3.x and the final slog of bugfixing should allow for better clearing of extra tags from phpbb, and also allow for the threading data from phpbb private messages to be preserved.

I appreciated all the help I got in the issue queue too. All in all a good release - especially considering that I do not use the module (last time I needed it was over a year ago, but I have done an import for another person once since too).

I am the current maintainer of the phpbb2drupal module which, as the name suggests, migrates data from phpBB to Drupal.

Click here for all my posts about the phpbb2drupal module.

Support to import data from phpbb 3 has been added and is available through the stable 2.x series of releases. The 1.x series of releases will currently remain to import from phpbb2.x

Requirements:

• phpass Module - There is a patched version attached at the bottom of this page with fixed bugs(setting the hash method back to md5 (the Drupal default) causes errors). If you trust me, you can use it.
• BBCode Module

History

At long last, I think there is light at the end of the tunnel.

This commit should not complete support for importing data from phpbb3 to drupal. This should be available in a HEAD release within the next few hours for people to test out.

So, where are we?

1. The module is much simplified from when I took over in December. This is true both internally and externally as seen by the user.

2. User import for phpbb3 now works. This includes importing passwords, using the phpass module. There is a caveat - workaround also supplied in that link.

The phpBB2Drupal is one of those throwaway module - those that need it will use it once and then ignore it. I took over this module because I had an itch that needed scratching. I fixed a few simple bugs (patches supplied by others) and then ported it to Drupal 6.

phpBB3 Support, other big changes.