Comments on: Blogger Beta to WordPress Import Error Solved with BB2WP

By: Ituloy AngSulong

Ituloy AngSulong — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:16:49 +0000

Saw your other comments tchandler. I decided to delete them since I fixed it already. There indeed was code in there which I used on my daughter’s blog. And purposely did that for my daughter’s blog. But I believe the code was left in there, my bad. It’s all fixed now.

By: tchandler

tchandler — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:31:08 +0000

odd. couldn’t even post the broken code. here’s a screenshot. hopefully you’ll be able to answer and not just delete this comment:

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:55:33 +0000

I figured it out.

I changed line 149 to the following:

$commentfile = str_replace(“”,”",$params[6]);

I know I probably just cold have changed it to be:

$commentfile = $param[6];

But I tried that first, and it worked, so that was good enough for me.

Thanks.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:24:20 +0000

First off, this is great. Thanks for your hard work!

I tried to use your tool, and it worked wonderfully except for importing my comments. I’m getting an error on every post that contains comments. It says there is a problem on line 167.

I’m working in a folder called wordpress in my root directory. This is the warning I get:

Warning: file_get_contents(http:///wordpress/bb2wp/2006/10/post-name.html) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in /username/public_html/wordpress/bb2wp/import.php on line 167

I believe there is a problem with str_replace for $commentfile in line 149, but I’m not sure exactly what to change to make it work.

It says:

$commentfile = str_replace(“http:///bb2wp/”,”",str_replace($_SERVER[HTTP_HOST],”",$params[6]));

But I’m wondering if there’s a problem with the “http:///bb2wp/” part.

I could be way off base, but I’d appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks!

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:23:04 +0000

I was trying to import and i got this sql error:

Query failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ’75′ , post_date = ’2005-06-09 10:48:10′ , post_date_gmt = ’2005-’ at line 2

Any ideas?

By: Jerry Wipf

Jerry Wipf — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:20:33 +0000

Thank you so much for responding my friend. I appreciate it.
I tried it and for some reason it did not transfer anything. I will try it again as I am sure I made an error somewhere. Sometimes I wish I was more of a geek. lol

By: Ituloy AngSulong

Ituloy AngSulong — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:30:54 +0000

Hi Jerry,

Question One:
Point it to the new blog www/myblog/bb2wp

Question Two:
Replace your whole template with the code provided. There should be nothing else in the template but the code provided above. Better yet, just download the file bb2wp and upload the import.php file to: myblog/bb2wp/import.php and visit it in your browser. The instructions are there and will not run right away, and you need to read it again and make sure everything is done before you click on the link to run it. Hopefully nothing goes wrong. When you use this code as your template, your template will look totally terrible. Your blog will not look presentable at all. But at least it will be in a more simple way that the script can read and import well.

By: Jerry Wipf

Jerry Wipf — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:53:23 +0000

Thanks for posting this for us. Appreciate it..

Couple Questions.

My current blog is at http://www.mydomain.com/blog

I am using the Blogger FTP for that blog..

My New WordPress Blog Location is http://www.mydomain.com/myblog

Does that mean that I point the file to
www/blog/bb2wp

or do I point it to the new blog
www/myblog/bb2wp

And my second question is about your last step..

Do I paste the code (as an entire blog of code) ANYWHERE in my template or does it have to be in a certain place within the template..

Thanks A Million For All Your Help.

Peace
Jerry