Django-phpBB3 provides the database models of a existing phpBB3 installation for easy migration into a other forum software. It's not a phpBB clone or a forum!
Warning: In the current state, it's not guaranteed that changes trough the django admin will work with phpBB3! So in the current state, access 'read-only' to the data ;)
Patches are welcome! Please send pull requests.
We add two example projects:
| django_phpBB3_project | minimal project without extra depencies |
| phpBB2DjangoBB_project | DjangoBB example project which include the phpBB2DjangoBB migration command |
We added a test project for easy start in: /django_phpBB3_project/
Create a local_settings.py in /django_phpBB3_project/ At least you must setup DATABASES, e.g:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
'NAME': 'phpbb3', # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
'USER': 'phpbb3', # Not used with sqlite3.
'PASSWORD': 'foo bar', # Not used with sqlite3.
'HOST': '', # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
'PORT': '', # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
}
}optional settings, that you can change in your local_settings.py are:
# The prefix of the phpBB3 installation - default: u"phpbb3_" PHPBB_TABLE_PREFIX = u"phpbb3_"
You must create the django tables with: ./manage.py syncdb and create a superuser.
You can startup a test server with, e.g:
./manage.py runserver --traceback --insecure
not complete implemented, yet!
The migration from phpBB3 to DjangoBB is implement as a migration command here: /django_phpBB3/management/commands/phpbb2djangobb.py
To run the migration you can use the minimal phpBB2DjangoBB example project example. This project includes the DjangoBB forum app and django-phpBB3 app. Before start, you must install the dependencies!
You must add to a local_settings.py into /phpBB2DjangoBB_project/ this settings:
# filesystem path to the /files/ sub directory of the phpBB installation: PHPBB_ATTACHMENT_PATH = "/path/to/phpBB/files/"
(You must also point the attachment directory from DjangoBB to a existing filesystem path.)
Run the migration with:
cd phpBB2DjangoBB_project phpBB2DjangoBB_project$ ./manage.py phpbb2djangobb
Add --cleanup_users=x to setup which users are migrate, where x is a number:
| 0 | all users |
| 1 | users with email addresses (skip bots) |
| 2 | users with email and has a 'lastvisit' date (default) |
| 3 | email + lastvisit and has created at least one post |
Things that would not be transfered, yet:
- Forum moderators
- Category groups
- sort of in Category / Forum would not be converted to position number
- ForumWatch / TopicWatch can't be converted because the models are unsupported
Handling missing features in DjangoBB:
- We transfer phpBB Users who are in the user group ADMINISTRATORS or GLOBAL_MODERATORS to all forum moderators.
- global posts and announcement converted to normal sticky posts
- sub forums would be flatten
- ghost moved posts are ignored (only the moved post would be created)
TODOs:
- convert subscriptions
- Are the phpBB times in phpbb_posts in UTC oder in local time from user?
Here some links for phpBB documentations:
The SQL schema files from phpBB can be found here:
| Homepage | https://github.com/jedie/django-phpBB3 |
| IRC | #pylucid on freenode.net |
| Forum Thread | http://support.djangobb.org/topic/300/ |
| PyPi | http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-phpBB3/ |