I would eventually like to convert phpbb2drupal to use ajax calls and in the absence of javascript redirects like core does in update.php. This will provide a better user experience and most likely make the updates more flexible and easier to code.

To be honest, I need phpbb2drupal for 5 so I would like to postpone this till branches for 4.7 and 5 have been made and 5 conversion has been started. If requested I'll backport to 4.7 then. Because of this I have marked it postponed.

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beginner’s picture

beginner commented

I am not too keen on using ajax for a module that is to be used only once: we are adding complexity to the code for little benefit.

However, if you do come up with a patch, I will of course review it and consider it seriously. I don't know javascript and ajax, but I need to learn anyway, so maybe it's a good opportunity.

I would insist that the migration works equally well with a browser without javascript, i.e. the migration should work both with and without ajax (both with javascript turned on and off).

In short, ajax seems to be an overkill for this module, but if you do take the time to code a patch, I'll have a close look at it.

naheemsays’s picture

naheemsays commented
Status: Postponed » Closed (won't fix)

This won't happen - closest thing likely is batch api, but even there I will need to be supplied patches.