Is there an easy way to move your users, messages, ranks, smilies, etc. from phpbb to vBulletin? If so, how?
Maybe a script or something? If you know, please, it would save my friend a lot of time and trouble. All help is appreciated greatly! I will choose the 1st answer which helps me most as best answer.
Answers:
I'm sure the vBulletin guys have a converter, not sure if they charge for it or not
Other answers:
The data can absolutely be done, but there is no real easy way to go about it. I cannot tell you about the smilies. What you are talking about would entail writing code to map one database to another and that is provided that the new bulletin board contains the same features.
The only potentially easy option is dependent upon your databases. If you can export the data into spreadsheets or an Access database, maybe even just making a backup of it, you might be able to do an import into the new database. This is entirely dependent upon the limitations of the database on each bulletin board and you will still need to figure out how the fields match up between the two databases.
move it to your recycibin