Building custom importers

The importer includes a clean framework for building custom importers.  A new importer can be built by an experienced developer in as little as 2-3 days!

To get started with building an importer, take a look at one of the existing ones under the importers folder.

In most cases you just need to create a new file and fill out a set of array options that will tell the importer engine where the old forum data is located.

A typical mapping would look similar to the following:

For more information on building a custom importer, check out our blog article here:  Writing Custom Importers For Simple:Press.