Excellent MOD!

However it does need soem improvement.

things I feel need to be changed, added, improved:

-importing of items should be independant. currently you must import in order users, catagoris, forums, topics, polls, posts. make importing of items independant of eachother

-ability to import items again with the option to overright any exisiting entries present in the import or to import only items that havent already been imported.

-some kind of progress bar or something.

-avoid timeouts on large conversions. for instance it should detect what the servers timeout setting is and then stop automatically just before timeout is reached. display to the user how many things were imported in that time. and instruct them they must import again to get the rest of the imported items in. this would repeat owever many times it takes until all items have been imported.

this is all I can think of for now. As I said thank you to the developers and I appreciate all the hardwork thus far. I look forward to some of these changes/improvements appearing in upcoming releases.

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neclimdul
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for 1, there is some order that needs to be followed so things can be properly linked in an effecient manner. This also makes your multiple update idea difficult.

As for you timeout and progress bar comments, that's something I would like to work on. See #101372. It doesn't sound like a big priority of beginners and it requires a lot of code changes so it might be slow coming as I've got a lot of other projects on my plate.

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beginner commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Welcome Nathaniel.
In the Drupal parlance, this is not a MOD but a 'module'. :)

I close this issue, because it covers more than one topic. Usually we have one topic per issue, which makes follow-ups easier.
A quick reply on each point, though:
1) neclimdul already replied (thanks).
2) if you really need that, open an issue providing a concrete example. One use I can think of, is selectively importing users or match phpBB users to Drupal users.
3) A progress bar is a toy. If someone codes one, and it meets my requirements, I am not against it.
4) timeouts on large conversion: I recognise that this is a real problem. You can open an issue about it. Since I wrote this module, I have written another one that takes care of that, so this feature could be incorporated here.

This issue is closed.

@ neclimdul : thanks for your contributions. I think it's about time I made a proper release for 4.7 and branched off for D5, which I would release pretty soon, too. If you have a simple D5 upgrade patch (but not more), can you post it in a new issue?