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#1 2007-10-27 08:25:32

cbmr777

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Registered: 2007-10-27

Posts: 1

Importing from Nucleus

I am strongly considering making the move from Nucleus to Textpattern. I am a web designer by trade so programming is not my cup of tea. (Willing to learn though ;) )

I did a search and could not find the answer to what is on my mind most… imposting my posts & comments data into Textpattern. I noticed there are importing features within the core of Textpattern for a handfull of other software. But after doing a search, did not see anything for Nucleus. Is there an easy way to do this?

Thank you in advance!

#2 2007-10-30 00:55:47

JonahC

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From: Toronto

Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 39

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Re: Importing from Nucleus

Hi:

I recently did this. I moved from nucleus to textpattern. This nucleus to movable type script did it for me.

There are no step-by-step instructions that I could find, but this is what I did:

1. copy the code, open notepad, paste the code, and then save as import.php
2. change the code in the import.php file so it could access your nucleus mysql database.
3. upload import.php to the same directory as your nucleus index.php.
4. run the import.php
5. you should now see all your nucleus entries on the screen
6. this is where it took me so long to figure out…view the source of the web page and save that page source as a text file. If you simply save the web page using “save as…” it will not work.
7. the text file that you just saved is in movable type format so it’s just a matter of importing this txt file using the MT file import in textpattern.
8. make sure you import as draft as you have to do a bit of cleaning up, but at least all your posts and comments are intact.

Hope this works for you.

Last edited by JonahC (2007-10-30 23:22:36)

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