Hi Dave, > I thought one thing I could do is try and find the table that > stores phpBB's usernames and passwords, and extend those to include the > user data that I have already. But I know enough to know that it is > unlikely to be as simple as that. For example, I thought I read > somewhere that phpBB uses a different hashing algorithm to encrypt it's > passwords. > Has anyone here been through a process like this before? Can > anyone offer some tips and warnings about attempting this?
It isn't very hard to do this actually. Although I don't use phpBB myself, I had a quick look at it to see if it was what we needed for a particular community site (management decided to use vBulletin in the end). I know that phpBB has a few converter scripts on the web site. These may help you to learn a bit how you can fill the phpBB user information. You need to dig a bit around in those scripts to see which part(s) are about retrieving information from the original forum database and which part(s) are about inserting the data in the phpBB database. Of course you only need the parts that deal with the user data! There is also a universal converter system on the download page, but that seems a bit complicated at first sight. Maybe you can ask the developer of the UCS how you easily use it to add your own users to phpBB? I think you will manage ;-) Regards, Jigal. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
