TiberiusE
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
Hello. I'm currently trying to migrate my wife's blog from Mambo to WordPress. I set up WP and I'm trying to use the script available in the codex to make the import. I added the db info on the config file and tried to run the export script. I get the following error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/content/m/h/h/mhh1212/html/wordpress/export/index.php on line 1
This is in the index.php that hasnt been edited. I opened up the file and that path is nowhere to be found. Going through the Mambo adminstrator I see in the server info that path is set as absolute path. Is that determined by the hosting company? (godaddy).
tastycarp
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
I had same issue.. I commented out the this line at the top: $_wp_installing = 1; and I got a bit further.. looks like it works but then it gets stuck at the second step looking for the file wp-includes/functions-formatting.php.
I recon this script is old and not quite working with the newer versions of wordpress as the file above is not in the version im using. I will try an older vesion of WordPress and try to upgrade from it.
tastycarp
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
I found the file functions-formatting.php was renamed to formatting.php sometime around 2.0.6 so I did a search and replace on the index.php and renamed it in the script. This script will only work up to 2.2.3. The 2.3.x series renames the wp_category table causing this script to not work. It wouldn't put things into the category I wanted so I ended up doing that manually.
itsbarry
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
I got this script to work with WP 2.3.2 thanks to a little minor hackery. It wasn't pretty but it did the job.
in index.php rename as follows:
* cat_ID –> term_ID
* categories –> terms
* cat_name –> name
* wp_categories -> wp_terms
There might be a little more to it than that, I'll send you my modded index.php if you don't care to search and replace for half an hour like I did.
