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[Matalina]

Currently we have a phpbb2.0 coppermine bridge, we would like to convert it to a standalone coppermine with out losing the current database and submissions. 

Is there anyway we can do this?

[Joachim Müller]

Just run the bridge manager and disable bridging - this will make coppermine "standalone". You will not loose pics, but correlation between your user interactions (uploads, voting, comments etc.) will be lost.
You'd have to export the users from your bridging app and import them into coppermine. There is currently no pre-made mod to accomplish this, so you'll have to do this manually (which is only an option if you have a small number of users and if you know your way around).

[Matalina]

Would this work to go from one bridge to another.  We were using phpbb, and it was my suggestion to go to standalone, however the owner wants to use their existing SMF base which was converted from the phpbb base before.

What table fields from phpbb user table will be required to port to a standalone version just username and password? anything else?

[Joachim Müller]

Will work if the correlation between the user ID and user name in SMF is the same as it used to be in phpBB. Unbridge (using the bridge manager), then re-bridge with SMF (again: use the bridge manager). If everything should work as expected, you should be fine.

[Matalina]

Thank you muchly.