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Import Problem (bblog import)

Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 8:09 am
by hanno
When trying to import bblog-entries I encountered some problems:

1. After entering all information I got this message:
Starting import procedure...
Tabelle 'hanno.serendipity_authors' existiert nicht Import failed:
(which is in english "table 'hanno.serendipity_authors' doesn't exist")
now, hanno was the name of the bblog-db. So the importer tries to import into the bblog-db, not into the s9y-db. It only works if you have the bblog and s9y-tables in the same db.

2. All trackbacks were converted to comments. They should stay trackbacks after conversion, else the importer doesn't make much sense.

Re: Import Problem (bblog import)

Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 11:46 am
by garvinhicking
Yes, the first error is sadly a bug in 0.8, which has yet only been fixed in our 0.9 release.

About the trackbacks: How does bblog differ from trackbacks to comments? The importer uses this query:

Code: Select all

"SELECT * FROM {$this->data['prefix']}comments WHERE type = 'comment'
and I thought that would suffice to only get comments. I'm not familar with bblog, so I only created the importer reverse engineering the database...

Regards,
Garvin

Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 3:15 pm
by hanno
You're right, the svn-snapshot fixes the first issue.

About the second, I was wrong, your query is correct, but it doesn't import trackbacks at all. Is that not supported by the importer?

Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 5:42 pm
by garvinhicking
I sadly did not have a testing base for importing trackbacks; so no, this is currently nto supported by the importer.

Regards,
Garvin

Import of Trackbacks

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 5:24 pm
by hanno
I'll have a look at it and will try to implement a patch for trackback-import.