BLOGGER.COM to SERENDIPITY IMPORT
Version 0.1,( 29/10/2005 )
1. First go to Blogger.com, login.
2. Go to the templates section. Set the following as your template. You should backup the current template if you want to reset it back after this operation. Click "Save template changes" button to save this new template.
3. Go to the "Settings" section of blogger.
4. Click the "Formatting" link. From the formatting options, find the "Timestamp Format" option and set it to the top most option. i.e the one with the date and time showing. Find the "Show" option, and set it to 999. Save changes
5. Now click the "Comments" link. Find the "Comments Timestamp Format" option and set it to the 2nd option from the list. i.e the one with the date and time showing. Save changes.
6. On the server with your Serendipity installation, create a directory called "blogger".
7. Next, back on Blogger.com, go to the "Publishing" section. Set it to publish to an FTP server. Enter the details of the server with your Serendipity installation. Set the FTP path as the path to the "blogger" directory you created in the previous step.
8. Go back to Blogger.com and find "Publish Entire Blog" under "Posting" -> "Status". Click the Publish entire blog button to let blogger publish the blog to your ftp server.
9. Now in the box below type in the path to the "index.html" file blogger created under your "blogger" directory. File path should then look something like "/httpdocs/blogger/index.html".
10. This script will create the users as from the blogger blog being imported. However if a user already exists, then that user will be used instead of creating a new user with similar name. For the new users that this script will create, you need to provide a default password. Type it in the box below.
11. Click "Submit". Your posts and comments should be imported to serendipity!
If you have questions or problems, feel free to drop me a mail at jaa at technova dot com dot mv.
Jaa, http://jaa.technova.com.mv
'; return $out; } function import() { global $serendipity; if (empty($this->data['bloggerfile']) || !file_exists($this->data['bloggerfile'])) { echo "Path to blogger file empty or path to file wrong! Go back and correct."; return false; } # get default pass from request $defaultpass = $this->data['defaultpass']; # get blogger uploaded file path from request and load file $html = file_get_contents($this->data['bloggerfile']); # find posts using pattern matching preg_match_all("/STARTPOST(.*)ENDPOST/sU", $html, $posts); # iterate through all posts foreach($posts[1] as $post) { # locate the post title if (preg_match("/TITLE:(.*)/", $post, $title)) { $title = trim($title[1]); echo "" . serendipity_specialchars($title) . ""; } else { $title = ""; echo "Empty title"; } # locate the post author if (preg_match("/AUTHOR:(.*)/", $post, $author)) { $author = trim($author[1]); echo "" . serendipity_specialchars($author[1]) . ""; } else { $author = ""; echo "Unknown author"; } # locate the post date if (preg_match("/DATE:(.*)/", $post, $date)) { $date = strtotime(trim($date[1])); echo "Posted on " . serendipity_specialchars($date[1]) . "."; } else { $date = time(); echo "Unknown posting time."; } # locate the post body if (preg_match("/BODY:(.*)-----/sU", $post, $body)) { $body = trim($body[1]); echo '' . strlen($body) . " Bytes of text."; } else { $body = ""; echo "Empty Body!"; } # find all comments for the post using pattern matching if (preg_match_all( "/COMMENT:(.*)----/sU", $post, $commentlist)) { echo '' . count($commentlist[1]) . " comments found."; } else { $commentlist = array(); echo "No comments found."; } $result = serendipity_db_query("SELECT authorid FROM ". $serendipity['dbPrefix'] ."authors WHERE username = '". serendipity_db_escape_string($author) ."' LIMIT 1", true, 'assoc'); if (!is_array($result)) { $data = array('right_publish' => 1, 'realname' => $author, 'username' => $author, 'userlevel' => 0, 'password' => md5($defaultpass)); // MD5 compatible serendipity_db_insert('authors', $data); $authorid = serendipity_db_insert_id('authors', 'authorid'); } else { $authorid = $result['authorid']; } $entry = array('title' => $title, 'isdraft' => 'false', 'allow_comments' => 'true', 'timestamp' => $date, 'body' => $body, 'extended' => '', 'author' => $author, 'authorid' => $authorid ); echo "Entry insert..."; if (!is_int($id = serendipity_updertEntry($entry))) { echo "Inserting entry failed."; return $id; } else { echo "Entry $id inserted."; } # iterate through all comments $c = 0; foreach($commentlist[1] as $comment) { $c++; # locate the author and author url $curl = ''; $cauthor = ''; $cdate = time(); $cbody = ''; if (preg_match("/AUTHOR:(.*)/", $comment, $cauthor) && preg_match("/href=\"(.*)\"/", $cauthor[1], $curl)) { $curl = (isset($curl[1]) ? trim($curl[1]) : ''); $cauthor = trim(strip_tags($cauthor[1])); } # locate the date if (preg_match("/DATE:(.*)/", $comment, $cdate)) { $cdate = strtotime($cdate[1]); } # locate the comment body if (preg_match("/BODY:(.*)/s", $comment, $cbody)) { $cbody = trim($cbody[1]); } $icomment = array('entry_id ' => $id, 'parent_id' => 0, 'timestamp' => $cdate, 'author' => $cauthor, 'email' => '', 'url' => $curl, 'ip' => '', 'status' => 'approved', 'body' => $cbody, 'subscribed'=> 'false', 'type' => 'NORMAL'); serendipity_db_insert('comments', $icomment); } serendipity_db_query("UPDATE ". $serendipity['dbPrefix'] ."entries SET comments = ". $c ." WHERE id = ". $id); echo "Comment count set to: ". $c .""; } echo "Import finished."; return true; } } return 'Serendipity_Import_OldBlogger'; /* vim: set sts=4 ts=4 expandtab : */ ?>