thread import - advice please...
 

I have an existing installation in which I want to import approximately 300 articles into a new forum.

I want each one of the articles to be treated as an individual closed thread in a specific forum.

The basic information I have in a csv file is:

Title (Article Title)
Body (Article Body)
Date (Original Date of Article)
Author (Existing Forum Member)

I'm curious if there is a tool available to do something like this or if I actually have to perform specific sql queries with phpMyAdmin or similar application.

Any advice on how I can proceed would be appreciated

Impex can do this, though it would require some simple coding to pull it off.

Creating a default forum is easy, then looping though a csv file is easy again to get the infor out and into a thread.

Does the content have HTML in it that would need parsing out ?

Some of it does, but taking it out and adding it later should not be a big deal - It's mainly for archive purposes...

I downloaded and installed impEx on my adminCP but I'm not really sure what I'm doing...

I only uploaded the .txt module as it was the closest thing resembling a .csv file... Went through the manual as well and found nothing refering to importing csv fils - other than a reference to import users.

Is there another resource somwhere where I can educate myself a bit more about this?

Thanks in advance?