# This is an example settings file for the phpBB3 importer. database: type: MySQL # currently only MySQL is supported host: localhost port: 3306 username: root password: schema: phpbb table_prefix: phpbb_ # Change this, if your forum is using a different prefix. Usually all table names start with phpbb_ batch_size: 1000 # Don't change this unless you know what you're doing. The default (1000) should work just fine. import: # Set this if you import multiple phpBB forums into a single Discourse forum. # # For example, when importing multiple sites, prefix all imported IDs # with 'first' to avoid conflicts. Subsequent import runs must have a # different 'site_name'. # # site_name: first # site_name: # Create new categories # # For example, to create a parent category and a subcategory. # # new_categories: # - forum_id: foo # name: Foo Category # - forum_id: bar # name: Bar Category # parent_id: foo # new_categories: # Category mappings # # For example, topics from phpBB category 1 and 2 will be imported # in the new "Foo Category" category, topics from phpBB category 3 # will be imported in subcategory "Bar category", topics from phpBB # category 4 will be merged into category 5 and category 6 will be # skipped. # # category_mappings: # 1: foo # 2: foo # 3: bar # 4: 5 # 6: SKIP # category_mappings: # Tag mappings # # For example, imported topics from phpBB category 1 will be tagged # with 'first-category', etc. # # tag_mappings: # 1: # - first-category # 2: # - second-category # 3: # - third-category # tag_mappings: # Rank to trust level mapping # # Map phpBB 3.x rank levels to trust level # Users with rank at least 3000 will have TL3, etc. # # rank_mapping: # trust_level_1: 200 # trust_level_2: 1000 # trust_level_3: 3000 # rank_mapping: # WARNING: Do not activate this option unless you know what you are doing. # It will probably break the BBCode to Markdown conversion and slows down your import. use_bbcode_to_md: false # This is the path to the root directory of your current phpBB installation (or a copy of it). # The importer expects to find the /files and /images directories within the base directory. # You need to change this to something like /var/www/phpbb if you are not using the Docker based importer. # This is only needed if you want to import avatars, attachments or custom smilies. phpbb_base_dir: /shared/import/data site_prefix: # this is needed for rewriting internal links in posts original: oldsite.example.com/forums # without http(s):// new: http://discourse.example.com # with http:// or https:// # Enable this, if you want to redirect old forum links to the the new locations. permalinks: categories: true # redirects /viewforum.php?f=1 to /c/category-name topics: true # redirects /viewtopic.php?f=6&t=43 to /t/topic-name/81 posts: false # redirects /viewtopic.php?p=2455#p2455 to /t/topic-name/81/4 # Append a prefix to each type of link, e.g. 'forum' to redirect /forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=43 to /t/topic-name/81 # Leave it empty if your forum wasn't installed in a subfolder. prefix: avatars: uploaded: true # import uploaded avatars gallery: true # import the predefined avatars phpBB offers remote: false # WARNING: This can considerably slow down your import. It will try to download remote avatars. # When true: Anonymous users are imported as suspended users. They can't login and have no email address. # When false: The system user will be used for all anonymous users. anonymous_users: true # Enable this, if you want import password hashes in order to use the "migratepassword" plugin. # This will allow users to login with their current password. # The plugin is available at: https://github.com/discoursehosting/discourse-migratepassword passwords: false # By default all the following things get imported. You can disable them by setting them to false. bookmarks: true attachments: true private_messages: true polls: true # When true: each imported user will have the original username from phpBB as its name # When false: the name of each imported user will be blank unless the username was changed during import username_as_name: false # Map Emojis to smilies used in phpBB. Most of the default smilies already have a mapping, but you can override # the mappings here, if you don't like some of them. # The mapping syntax is: emoji_name: 'smiley_in_phpbb' # Or map multiple smilies to one Emoji: emoji_name: ['smiley1', 'smiley2'] emojis: # here are two example mappings... smiley: [':D', ':-D', ':grin:'] heart: ':love:'