Drupal 6 version doesn't appear to work.
ajpiano - October 12, 2008 - 20:20
| Project: | Import Typepad / MoveableType |
| Version: | 6.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | critical |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs work |
Description
I could not get the module to work under D6.
Seems that the menu_hook doesn't conform to proper D6 format, which makes me less than optimistic about the rest of the functionality working...
#1
Yeah, that's not the only thing broken. I spent a few hours making fixes, but I got stopped up on the author mappings. I just decided to use drupal 5 with the import_typepad module for 5.x. If that's an option, you can do it and upgrade to 6 after the import.
#2
Yeah, I just set up another install on d5, imported, and upgraded it to d6. Then I reinstalled and reconfigured all the modules I had set up the day before on my first d6 install. Awesome.
#3
This really shouldn't be marked as stable for D6.x It really doesn't work. Just tested in D6.9.
#4
Tested with v6.10 and as said before, it's not even close to work.
I get the following error when I enable the module:
warning: Missing argument 1 for import_typepad_menu() in /Users/myusername/Documents/www/drupal-6.10/sites/all/modules/import_typepad/import_typepad.module on line 24.
and nothing else after that.
Unfortunately, I don't have time at the moment to learn how Drupal modules work to fix it...
#5
Here's a start on a fix for this. I ran the 6.x-2.x version through coder module, first to clean up all the syntax errors that it complained about, and then with the upgrade 5.x to 6.x checks turned on. It doesn't throw errors on admin/build/modules any more, but it still doesn't work, either. I'm out of time for the day, I'll take another stab at this when I have some time.
Micah
#6
FWIW I used the 5.x version in a =D5.x sandbox and then upgraded core to 6.x.
Also:
The module expects to import into a content type called "blog". Any other name will prevent you from editing the nodes. For simplicity, I wiped out the other content types from the 5.x install.
Set up your Drupal categories in advance. Taxonomy CSV import/export worked for me.
Set up your users in advance, since the import module wants to map the Movable Type author to the Drupal author.
Tidy your markup tags and oddball ASCII characters in the export file, before you do the import.
Also in the export file, change PRIMARY CATEGORY: to CATEGORY:. Honestly, I don't know if this was necessary but it took less time to do that than to type this sentence.
Ignore the "ERROR 1 State = 5" thrown errors.
full report: http://www.marketingtechnician.com/blog/migrating-movable-type-drupal