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#1 2008-11-15 04:57:23
- jim
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Import Question
Hi folks,
I’m trying to import posts from a home-grown blogging platform to TXP. These posts already contain well-formed HTML. I’m creating an mtimport (Movable Type Import Format) file to do the move. It seems to work, although TXP tries to apply Textile formatting to my imported posts, resulting in some extraneous tags. For example, a BLOCKQUOTE block ends up with P tags around it, and it wreaks havoc with meaningless line breaks in general.
Under Preferences, I tried changing “Use Textile” to “leave text untouched”, and then ran the import again, but I got the same results.
Any suggestions for how to suppress this behavior?
Thanks!
Jim
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#2 2008-11-15 14:58:32
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Re: Import Question
I shouldn’t post so late! The answer was obvious in the cold light of day: add CONVERT BREAKS: 0 to each mtimport entry.
Also, a tip for anybody who Googles this forum later: you need to open and close the body with five dashes, or TXP will not import the body.
So, this is wrong, and TXP will import everything but the body:
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TITLE: Sample Post
AUTHOR: jim
DATE: 01/31/2002 03:31:05 PM
PRIMARY CATEGORY: Main
STATUS: publish
ALLOW COMMENTS: 1
CONVERT BREAKS: 0
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BODY:
This is the body.
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TITLE: Second Post
etc.This is right:
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TITLE: Sample Post
AUTHOR: jim
DATE: 01/31/2002 03:31:05 PM
PRIMARY CATEGORY: Main
STATUS: publish
ALLOW COMMENTS: 1
CONVERT BREAKS: 0
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BODY:
This is the body.
-----
--------
TITLE: Second Post
etc.TXP still throws an error for each post imported:
Notice: Array to string conversion in /f1/content/jim/public/textpattern/include/import/import_mt.php on line 192… but the import seems to work in spite of this.
Take care,
Jim
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#3 2008-11-15 15:03:02
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Re: Import Question
I shouldn’t post so late! The answer was obvious in the cold light of day: add CONVERT BREAKS: 0 to each mtimport entry.
Crap, that isn’t quite right either. I’ll post back if I find a solution.
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Re: Import Question
Jim,
Thanks for reports. I’ve never imported from another CMS yet – but I have one coming up soon.
This post might come in handy.
Thx.
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Also, when you’re done, if you have any tips you could share with us (even though it’s a home-grown CMS, some of the tips might well be useful to others importing from stock MT installs) then please either post here, shoot me an e-mail or grab a wiki account and add them to the Import page (and/or the specific Movable Type page). Cheers!
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#7 2008-11-18 04:11:40
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Re: Import Question
Okay, ultimately getting this to work wasn’t too hard. The steps:
- Create a file called import.txt in the mtimport format. AUTHOR should be the TXP login you want to assign to the imported articles. See my other notes above.
- Put the file in
/textpattern/include/import - In TXP, go to Admin, Import. Set “Import from” to “Movable Type (file)”. Complete the rest of the form.
- Hit “Continue” and cross your fingers. I got a pile of “Array to string conversion” warnings, and then a list of the successfully imported articles.
- If your imported articles were already in Textile, you’re good to go. If they are in HTML, run this query against your TXP MySQL database:
update textpattern set textile_body=0This sets the “Article Markup” setting for each article to “Leave text untouched.”
That did it for me, I hope somebody else finds this useful.
Thanks!
Jim
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