How should I move user accounts from one PHP coded forum to another.

[kannjihyun]

Hi guys,

 

I have been using phpBB for my private website, and now would like to try some other forums from other venders. However, I am not quite sure about how should I properly transfer all those account information from the old phpBB to a new forum. My strategy is that I will copy username field from the current mySQL database to the database of the new forum. And I also plan to do the same thing with the password field as well. However, the password field of the current mySQL database is currently encrypted. I do not care to know what their passwords actually are, but I just want them to be able to log in at the new forum smoothly. Is there a simple PHP script/strategy that I could use to transfer a password from one database to another?

 

Thanks for all your help.

 

K

[trq]

Allot of forums have scripts built for this exact purpose, read the docs of the new forum you are trying and go from there.