Orson Teodoro

This plugin is under heavy development. Please do not use it in production unless your willing to accept difficulty of 
upgrading or correctness of the conversion.
ForumConverter migrates post, topics, and users from one forum to a WordPress compatible forum. Currently, 
ForumConverter supports phpBB 3.0.9 to bbPress 2.0 conversion in addition to migrating users as subscribers 
to your WordPress blog.
ForumConverter migrates users from the source forum database to WordPress compatible forum so that migraters can take 
advantage of BuddyPress social networking. This is not a bridge.
For phpBB-to-bbPress conversions, ForumConverter is capable of…
<ul>
<li>reproducing the same forum tree structure for bbPress</li>
<li>reproducing forum post using the same same user, timestamps, sticky flag</li>
<li>allowing converted users to sign on using their existing phpBB password.</li>
<li>converting between BBCode or native bbPress HTML markup</li>
<li>supporting inline attachment conversion and whole topic/reply attachment conversion.</li>
<li>migrating of instant messenger info, global moderator membership, and emails.</li>
<li>password protected forums migration using the same phpBB password</li>
</ul>
Some things that are impossible to do for ForumConverter for phpBB-to-bbPress conversions
<ul>
<li>Complete conversion of custom BBCode. Only YouTube BBCode is supported but BBCode lite does not support YouTube tags. </li>
</ul>
Please read the installation instructions before preceeding. Remote conversion is not supported.

ForumConverter

Migrates a phpBB forum into a bbPress forum.

Nikos Merianos

Because we had some difficulties in the past versions, we have remove some of the features of the plugin. The version 2.0.7 DOES NOT require any donation to remove the backlink. With the new version, you will not be anymore able to autosubmit posts from WordPress into forums as a threads.
The WP phpBB Bridge is the evolution of «WordPress to phpBB3 Bridge». The first version of the plugin was designed to synchronize users of phpBB to WordPress, so when a user log-in to phpBB would be simultaneously connected to WordPress also.
The new version by e-xtnd.it added new features and improvements to exploit many of the features of WordPress previously were not available. Also has been added one new Widget to give more options for your blog.
After activating the Plugin, the user is redirected to connect and disconnect at phpBB. Also keeps the record within the phpBB3 and not WordPress. If a user does not exist in the tables in WordPress, then a new user is created . It should also be noted that after the activation several of the functions of phpBB will be available in WordPress in widget area.
Feature List:
<ul>
<li>Shares user authentication with phpBB3, by forcing phbBB to handle all the authentication.</li>
<li>Adds new users to WordPress user table from the phpBB3 user table.</li>
<li>Synchronizes WordPress user table from phpBB3 user table.</li>
<li>Allows WordPress themes to display current/last visit date/time as displayed in phpBB3</li>
<li>Widget for user login/user information from phpBB3 to be displayed.</li>
<li>Meta links widget that has registration, logging in, WordPress admin, Forum moderation, and Forum administration links. phpBB3 links visible based on user authentication.</li>
<li>Forum links widget that has links to various forum functions and pages based on the phpBB3 user authentication level.</li>
<li>Multilanguage support</li>
<li>Displays latest’s post’s of specific forum id’s</li>
<li>You can create instances of the same widget.</li>
</ul>
New Features
<ul>
<li>New easy way to deactivate the plugin in case you are locked out (There is no need to access again your database to deactivate the WP phpBB Bridge).</li>
<li>A new user-friendly dashboard with a quick view information about plugin status</li>
<li>You can specify the phpBB encoding for the WP phpBB Bridge Topics widget</li>
<li>You can be informed of your server settings, software, memory usage and many other related information</li>
<li>You can download from WP phpBB Bridge dashboard the english language *.po file to translate it into your language.The translations of the previews version 1.x are not compatible with the 2.x version of WP phpBB Bridge.</li>
<li>You can remove the backlink by unchecking only one checkbox</li>
</ul>
for more info visit: http://www.e-xtnd.it/wp-phpbb-bridge/
<h3>Developers</h3>
In new WP phpBB Bridge there are many hooks you can use with your code in order to modify native data, or run some functions in some points of WP phpBB Bridge execution period.
The following hooks are available.
Actions:
<ul>
<li>wpbb_before_init</li>
<li>wpbb_after_init</li>
<li>wpbb_plugin_started</li>
<li>wpbb_includes</li>
<li>wpbb_phpbb_loaded</li>
<li>wpbb_user_object_created</li>
<li>wpbb_authentication_object_created</li>
<li>wpbb_template_object_created</li>
<li>wpbb_cache_object_created</li>
<li>wpbb_db_object_created</li>
<li>wpbb_phpbb_configurations_loaded</li>
<li>wpbb_before_user_session_begin</li>
<li>wpbb_after_user_session_begin</li>
<li>wpbb_before_acl</li>
<li>wpbb_after_acl</li>
<li>wpbb_before_user_setup</li>
<li>wpbb_after_user_setup</li>
<li>wpbb_before_get_user_id</li>
<li>wpbb_return_user_id</li>
<li>wpbb_before_return_username</li>
<li>wpbb_after_return_username</li>
<li>wpbb_styles_loaded</li>
<li>wpbb_scripts_loaded</li>
<li>wpbb_ajax_url_created</li>
<li>wpbb_before_display_warning</li>
<li>wpbb_after_display_warning</li>
<li>wpbb_uninstalled</li>
<li>wpbb_before_flus_rewrite_rules</li>
<li>wpbb_after_flus_rewrite_rules</li>
<li>wpbb_before_add_rewrite_rules</li>
<li>wpbb_after_add_rewrite_rules</li>
<li>wpbb_before_add_query_variables</li>
<li>wpbb_after_add_query_variables</li>
<li>wpbb_before_disable_me</li>
<li>wpbb_after_disable_me</li>
<li>wpbb_before_admin_dashboard</li>
<li>wpbb_after_admin_dashboard</li>
<li>wpbb_before_admin_settings</li>
<li>wpbb_after_admin_settings</li>
<li>wpbb_before_forum_integration</li>
<li>wpbb_after_forum_integration</li>
<li>wpbb_before_author_integration</li>
<li>wpbb_after_author_integration</li>
<li>wpbb_before_donators</li>
<li>wpbb_after_donators</li>
<li>wpbb_before_get_avatar</li>
<li>wpbb_after_get_avatar</li>
</ul>
Filters:
<ul>
<li>wpbb_forums_categories – 1 argument – Array containing forums</li>
<li>wpbb_user_obj – 1 argument – phpBB User object</li>
<li>wpbb_auth_obj – 1 argument – phpBB Auth object</li>
<li>wpbb_template_obj – 1 argument – phpBB Template object</li>
<li>wpbb_cache_obj – 1 argument – phpBB Cache object</li>
<li>wpbb_db_obj – 1 argument – phpBB Database object</li>
<li>wpbb_phpbb_configs – 1 argument – phpBB Configurations object</li>
<li>wpbb_new_username – 1 argument – New username for WordPress database</li>
<li>wpbb_hash_generation – 1 argument – Hash</li>
<li>wpbb_forums_list – 1 argument – Array with forums displayed in Forum Assign page</li>
<li>wpbb_blog_categories – 1 argument – Array containing WordPress categories</li>
</ul>

WP phpBB Bridge

Shares user authentication with phpBB3, by forcing phbBB to handle all the authentication.

ForumConverter vs WP phpBB Bridge