[akiy]

Originally Posted by akiy

I worked out last night what I think is pretty much everything I need to import what I have from the Ryangel journal system to AN-Net's, at least in theory. In this present absence of any help from AN-Net, I'll see what I can do...

I finished putting together an importer of sorts. It's totally bare-bones, but it seems to work in importing the journals, the journal entries, and journal comments from Ryangel's vb3 journal system (which used to be on everythingvb.com and is now on vbhacks.us) to AN-Net's current system (as of 1.0.0, November 29th, 2004). Note: this importer is for the vb3 version of Ryangel's journal system, namely the version which I personally released back on everythingvb.com. I didn't follow the changes that occurred after that so there may be features (eg mood, now playing) that newer releases of that software may have added that won't be imported using this importer.

I have personally used this importer successfully on my test server.

In order to use this importer, you'll have to take into account that due to AN-Net's using the same names for some of the tables and templates, this is most likely a one-way import unless you back up your database and export your styles/phrases. I'm guessing that most folks who installed Ryangel's system are pretty competent hackers, so you should be able to go back if the importer fails. Nonetheless, I'll state here: CAVEAT/WARNING: I will not take any responsibility for any damage done to your system through the use of this importer. That said, I'll once again state that "it works for me."

The steps that this importer takes you through are the following:

1. Rename old Ryangel journal tables (importer can do this)
2. Install AN-Net's journal system (a manual step (ie you have to do this yourself))
3. Clear AN-Net journals/journal_entries/journal_comments tables (importer can do this)
4. Import journals (importer does this)
5. Import comments (importer does this)
6. Import entries (importer does this)

If you're interested in testing this out (even with the scary caveat above!), please PM me with your e-mail address and I'll send it out to you.