How do I migrate data from an old blog to Serendipity blog?

[danaMmm]

I'm currently using simplephpblog with aplus.net hosting, but I would like to change to Serendipity -- still with aplus.net hosting -- how do I do it without loosing all my previous post?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Sadly there currently is no importer for this blog system. I couldn't find it on google, what is its homepage?

You can import generic RSS feeds into serendipity from any blog system that provides a RSS feed - you will then get everything that is contained in your RSS feeds (so only entries, no authors or categories can be imported this way).

If I know more about that system I might tell you if it's easy to write an importer for that system...

Best regards,
Garin

[danaMmm]

The other blog developer's homepage is at http://www.simplephpblog.com/

Thanks for your help!

Dave

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Ah, I remember that. This has a flat-file structure which is a pain in the back to parse for foreign applications. Sadly this is nothing to quickly write-up.

Do you know some PHP? Then I could tell you how to write an importer for the files.

The other way I outlined, RSS import, should still work though - if simplephpblog is able to emit an RSS feed containing all entries.

Best regards,
Garvin