Title: [Plugin: WP phpBB Bridge] Transfer users from WP to phpBB tables
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP phpBB Bridge] Transfer users from WP to phpBB tables

 *  Resolved [narf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narf/)
 * (@narf)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-transfer-users-from-wp-to-phpbb-tables/)
 * I migrated thousands of users to WP.
 * Now I want these users also to appear in the phpBB-user-table.
 * I tried to un- and reinstall the bridge-plugin, hoping that the WP-users would
   now appear in phpBB .. but it didn’t work at all.
 * Any ideas?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Nikos Merianos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merianos/)
 * (@merianos)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-transfer-users-from-wp-to-phpbb-tables/#post-1938039)
 * You can’t use the plugin to register your users from WordPress to phpBB. Your
   users must register in phpBB and then a new user for each one of your users will
   be created on WordPress.
 * The reason that you can’t transfer your users is basicly practical, because the
   process is like that :
 * WordPress in wp-config.php file have some encryption keys. That keys are the 
   following:
 * define(‘AUTH_KEY’,’……’);
    define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’,’……’); define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’,’……’);
   define(‘NONCE_KEY’,’……’); define(‘AUTH_SALT’,’……’); define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’,‘……’);
   define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’,’……’); define(‘NONCE_SALT’,’……’);
 * When a new user is registered on WordPres his password is encryted with a hash
   encryption in compination with that keys.
 * So if you will try to move your users on phpBB, because phpBB has it’s own method
   to encrypt the passwords all of your users will need to reset their own passwords.
 *  Thread Starter [narf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narf/)
 * (@narf)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-transfer-users-from-wp-to-phpbb-tables/#post-1938268)
 * Wouldn’t be a problem .. the user have to reset their passwords anyway.
 *  Plugin Author [Nikos Merianos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merianos/)
 * (@merianos)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-transfer-users-from-wp-to-phpbb-tables/#post-1938273)
 * In that case you have to transfer “manualy” your users from one database to other.
 * The “manualy” could be mean to use SQL to transfer users from one table to another,
   in case that both softwares “WordPress” & “phpBB” are istalled in the same schema/
   server or by doing extract the fields that are usefull from WordPress to phpBB
   in an *.sql file and then importing them into phpBB table.
 * From the plugin this task is not posible to be completed at all, at least in 
   this version.

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