I currently have a website with a decent size forum community already built. I am looking to build a new site with Xoops, but dont want all my members to have to re-register on the website. Is there a way to integrate the existing forums into xoops? I apologize if this has already been asked, and if it has please just point me in the right direction.

This is more of a following question than an answer.

I think if I was in this situation I would back up my phpbb database (I am only interested in users at the minute) then rename the php_users table to xoops_users, then rename the fields in the table to match those of a standard xoops_user table.

Would this work?

I would then install my XOOPS CMS the standard way and then import the XOOPS table into the database (The table that I renamed from php_user)

I don't know how 'inter-dependent' the XOOPS database is, I have never had to go too deep into it, it works fine on the whole for me, so perhaps one of you uber-intelligent guys can let me know if it would work?

I would guess that the problems may come from trying to take the PHPbb forum posts into Xoops, I think it could be done in just about the same way, but I would guess that it would take a lot longer.

Dave

or u could just visit http://www.bbpixel.com and download the x-phpbb integrated version along with the phpbb standalone to x-phpbb converter..

or u can find another version of phpbbi on the dev site at http://dev.xoops.org but i think that version is still beta it maybe final tho i haven't checked in a while

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So if I install the x-phpbb version and use the converter that should bring in my current users and posts? Where can I find the converter?

MIke