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kd
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 Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 12:56 am Post subject: move from movable type to b2? |
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i see that there are both blogger and GM import utilities, but i don't see one for MT?
could i just make an MT template that creates a text file and import it with phpmyadmin? i'm quite a newbie at this, and that scares me. |
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nessahead
Joined: 12 Mar 2002
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| Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 5:09 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, seems like you could make an MT template that would display like Blogger, rename the files like Blogger does, and then use the Blogger import utility to get the posts into b2.
Or maybe Michel could work something out that's cooler =) |
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kd
Joined: 27 Apr 2002
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| Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 7:37 am Post subject: |
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| well, if it's anywhere near the coolness of the GM import utility, i'll just wait. damn. that was cool. i still have some GM blogs out there, and the conversion process? coolest thing i've ever seen. |
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michel v
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| Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm going to have a look at how MT accesses the DBM files that it uses, and then I'll check how I can access them through PHP... or I'll learn some Perl and do a conversion utility in Perl. |
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kd
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 1:03 am Post subject: |
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cool! thanks. looking at how the blogger import thing worked, though, it seems it would be fairly easy to make MT generate a monthly archive template, rename the files, and pretend it's blogger entries. ooh -- except the comments. it wouldn't get those, now, would it?
ok, well thanks. i spent part of my day to day importing blogger and GM sites with b2, just for fun... |
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nessahead
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| I know, it *is* fun =) |
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Gadget Girl
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| Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Michel,
Have you made any progress with this yet? I have almost 1,000 entries in MT and I'm not planning on going back to it, ever. Would love to have them in b2.  Point me in the right direction if there is a thread about this already, thanks!
Sara |
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Gadget Girl
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Bumping this back up. |
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Gadget Girl
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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| *bumping again* |
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michel v
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| In fact, somebody wrote a MT converter some months ago, but I lost the email that had it |
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Gadget Girl
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Well, maybe they will see this post and send it to you again! I would love to be able to delete all of MT from my domains~
Sara |
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bigbear
Joined: 08 Sep 2002
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| Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Hi there... I would interested in such a converter as well. MT is too slow for me. |
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Gadget Girl
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| Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I just pulled my archives from MT and linked them, bear, I love b2 and I was tired of MT. Bleck. |
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bigbear
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| Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Gadget Girl wrote: | | I just pulled my archives from MT and linked them, bear, I love b2 and I was tired of MT. Bleck. |
urmmm... pulled archives... as in how? currently I have a lot of comments as well... do I physically move the archive files into a folder placed in b2 and link them? |
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Gadget Girl
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| Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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I just linked to them. I took all the archives in MT and made it a .php file. Then, all the comments are there. I still have MT on my server, I'm just accessing the files by linking.
Take a look~ www.simplysara.com/blog/ I called them into my sidebar under the MT Archives heading. I think they are on the left sidebar. |
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