WordPress:Importing From Roller
You can fairly easily import data from Roller using the MovableType import script.
- Export your blog from the Roller database for importing into WordPress.
- Copy photographs, images, graphics, video, and all content files to the appropriate directories in your WordPress site server.
- Modify the
$user
,$oldresources
,$newresources
, and$connection
variables in the beginning of the script below script and place it on your server where PHP execution is allowed. - Execute the script. This will create a "dump" of your Roller blog content into a MovableType Import format.
- Use
wget
to store it into file.
Then follow the instructions for Importing from Movable Type to WordPress.
The following scripts should work for Roller pre-2.0 release. After Version 2.0, the comment table is changed to roller_comment
. Change the select statement to roller_comment
.
Exporting Roller Database from postgresql
For Roller using the postgresql database, copy the following script carefully and place it in a text editor and save it with an appropriate name as a PHP file. Upload it per the instructions above to your Roller server.
<html> <head> <title>Roller export</title> </head> <body> <? // assumes that Roller is running on postgresql // it also assumes that there is only one blog for user // the character set used by Roller is utf8, but this seems to suit at least // WordPress just fine, so no conversions done // just modify the script, store it somewhere where php execution is allowed // and wget the url // // provided by Madis Kaal // $user = "bloguser"; // in entry body, all occurrencies of $oldresources are // replaced with $newresources $oldresources = "/resources/bloguser/"; $newresources = "http://somesite/wp-content/"; // define your database connection here // dbname is name of database // usually, it is on localhost // password is for accessing the db // and user is username for it $connection = pg_connect("dbname=dbname host=localhost password=dbpassword user=dbuser"); // -- this is it, no changes should be needed below ------------------------------- // get ID for user $result = pg_Exec($connection, "select id from rolleruser where username='".$user."'"); $uid=pg_result($result,0,0); // get ID for site $result = pg_Exec($connection,"select id from website where userid='".$uid."'"); $siteid=pg_result($result,0,0); // get all entries for this site $entries= pg_Exec($connection,"select id,title,text,pubtime,categoryid,allowcomments,publishentry from weblogentry where websiteid='".$siteid."' order by pubtime"); // dump all entries echo "--------\n"; for($i=0; $i<(pg_numrows($entries)); $i++) { // turn the category ID into category name, I know SQL-heads would just // do it in query, but I'm a complete C-head $resultRow = pg_fetch_array($entries, $i); $c=$resultRow["categoryid"]; $cat=pg_result(pg_Exec($connection,"select name from weblogcategory where id='".$c."'"),0,0); // dump metadata first echo "PRIMARY CATEGORY: ".$cat."\n"; echo "AUTHOR: ".$user."\n"; echo "TITLE: ".$resultRow["title"]."\n"; $c=$resultRow["pubtime"]; // convert YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.ms to MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss echo "DATE: ".substr($c,5,2)."/".substr($c,8,2)."/".substr($c,0,4).substr($c,10,9)."\n"; $c=$resultRow["publishentry"]; if ($c=="t") { $c="1"; } else { $c="0"; }; echo "STATUS: ".$c."\n"; $c=$resultRow["allowcomments"]; if ($c=="t") { $c="1"; } else { $c="0"; }; echo "ALLOW COMMENTS: ".$c."\n"; echo "-----\n"; // done with metadata, multiline entries follow echo "BODY:\n"; $c=str_replace($oldresources,$newresources,$resultRow["text"]); echo $c."\n"; // find comments for the entry $comments=pg_Exec("select name,email,url,posttime,remotehost,content from comment where entryid='".$resultRow["id"]."'"); for ($j=0; $j<(pg_numrows($comments)); $j++) { $c=pg_fetch_array($comments,$j); // discard all comments containing url. this gets rid of spam, and also // some legimate comments as well if (strpos($c["content"],"http://")===false) { echo "-----\n"; echo "COMMENT:\n"; echo "AUTHOR: ".$c["name"]."\n"; echo "EMAIL: ".$c["email"]."\n"; echo "URL: ".$c["url"]."\n"; echo "IP: ".$c["remotehost"]."\n"; $d=$c["posttime"]; echo "DATE: ".substr($d,5,2)."/".substr($d,8,2)."/".substr($d,0,4).substr($d,10,9)."\n"; echo $c["content"]."\n"; } } echo "--------\n"; } pg_close($connection); ?> </body> </html>
Exporting Roller Database from MySQL
For MySQL databases, copy the following script carefully and place it in a text editor and save it with an appropriate name as a PHP file. Upload it per the instructions above to your Roller server.
<html> <head> <title>Roller export</title> </head> <body> <? // assumes that Roller is running on MySQL // it also assumes that there is only one blog for user // the character set used by Roller is utf8, but this seems to suit at least // WordPress just fine, so no conversions done // just modify the script, store it somewhere where php execution is allowed // and wget the url // // provided by Madis Kaal <mast@nomad.ee> // $user = "yourusernameonroller"; // in entry body, all occurrencies of $oldresources are // replaced with $newresources $oldresources = "/roller/page/username/"; $newresources = "/roller/page/username/"; // define your database connection here // dbname is name of database // usually, it is on localhost // password is for accessing the db // and user is username for it $username = "dbusername"; $password = "dbpassword"; $hostname = "localhost"; $dbname = "roller"; $dbh = mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password); $connection = mysql_select_db($dbname,$dbh); // -- this is it, no changes should be needed below ------------------------------- // get ID for user $result = mysql_query("select id from rolleruser where username='".$user."'"); $uid=mysql_result($result,0,0); // get ID for site $result = mysql_query("select id from website where userid='".$uid."'"); $siteid=mysql_result($result,0,0); // get all entries for this site $entries= mysql_query("select id,title,text,pubtime,categoryid,allowcomments,publishentry from weblogentry where websiteid='".$siteid."' order by pubtime"); // dump all entries echo "--------\n"; for($i=0; $i<(mysql_num_rows($entries)); $i++) { // turn the category ID into category name, I know SQL-heads would just // do it in query, but I'm a complete C-head $resultRow = mysql_fetch_array($entries); $c=$resultRow["categoryid"]; $cat=mysql_result(mysql_query("select name from weblogcategory where id='".$c."'"),0,0); // dump metadata first echo "PRIMARY CATEGORY: ".$cat."\n"; echo "AUTHOR: ".$user."\n"; echo "TITLE: ".$resultRow["title"]."\n"; $c=$resultRow["pubtime"]; // convert YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.ms to MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss echo "DATE: ".substr($c,5,2)."/".substr($c,8,2)."/".substr($c,0,4).substr($c,10,9)."\n"; $c=$resultRow["publishentry"]; if ($c=="t") { $c="1"; } else { $c="0"; }; echo "STATUS: ".$c."\n"; $c=$resultRow["allowcomments"]; if ($c=="t") { $c="1"; } else { $c="0"; }; echo "ALLOW COMMENTS: ".$c."\n"; echo "-----\n"; // done with metadata, multiline entries follow echo "BODY:\n"; $c=str_replace($oldresources,$newresources,$resultRow["text"]); echo $c."\n"; // find comments for the entry $comments=mysql_query("select name,email,url,posttime,remotehost,content from comment where entryid='".$resultRow["id"]."'"); for ($j=0; $j<(mysql_num_rows($comments)); $j++) { $c=mysql_fetch_array($comments); // discard all comments containing url. this gets rid of spam, and also // some legimate comments as well if (strpos($c["content"],"http://")===false) { echo "-----\n"; echo "COMMENT:\n"; echo "AUTHOR: ".$c["name"]."\n"; echo "EMAIL: ".$c["email"]."\n"; echo "URL: ".$c["url"]."\n"; echo "IP: ".$c["remotehost"]."\n"; $d=$c["posttime"]; echo "DATE: ".substr($d,5,2)."/".substr($d,8,2)."/".substr($d,0,4).substr($d,10,9)."\n"; echo $c["content"]."\n"; } } echo "--------\n"; } mysql_close(); ?> </body> </html>