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Ok a progress update

Last week I decided to recode the importer as a WordPress plugin as I now need to import a Vbulletin forum as well and it seemed a little daft to write two importers when a plugin with an import API would be a more sensible approach.

So so far I have written the plugin, using a very loose MVC architecture to allow other importers to be more easily slotted in. For the moment I am focusing 100% on the phpbb importer using the API.

Its all going very well. So far I have everything working apart from

• Permissions
• General Forum Options

I have a lot of 'bugs' that need fixing but as you can see from the links below its getting there

Main import options

http://www.alexjg.co.uk/mainoptions.png

This specifies what type of forum you want to import and the basic database connection options

phpB Import Options

http://www.alexjg.co.uk/phpbboptions.png

Each importer has its own set of options for defining how the import works

The actual importer

http://www.alexjg.co.uk/startimport.png

press the button and sit back !

You may notice at the top of the last image some warnings. This whole importer came from my need to import a phpBB forum into SPF, the phpBB forum has previously been imported from Vbulletin and used a plugin in phpBB to handle the authentication.

In my first importer I replicated the custom login functionality to allow WP users to login using different types of authentication. I am going to move this login functionality to a new WP plugin rather than have it in the importer as the importer should be removed after its been used.

The result

http://www.alexjg.co.uk/forum.png

Alex

Thanks

I have the two best bits of documentation  …

1) The Wiki – The file structure is damn handy

2) The Source code :-)

Its not that often you find a project with documentation as good as your

I tend to like to work things out myself, have been doing this sort of development for 20 years :-)

Should have something for people to play with in a few weeks

Alex