Hi Phil You're absolutely right!! How could I be so blind.
Thanks again - you're very patient. Doug On 7/29/06, Phillip Toland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug, > This is just a shot in the dark. Are you sure that you are looking in > the right database? Maybe you are looking in the production database > and the data is in the development database. I have been bitten by > this myself a few times. I am pretty sure that the script would squawk > if there was a problem writing the data to the database. > > Good luck, > Phil > > On 7/29/06, Doug Bromley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alistair. > > > > I sppoke to soon. :( > > > > I ran the conversion after making the patch with everything appearing > > to work fine. It runs through "converting entries..." and finishes. > > However, when I check the typo DB there's been no import. No articles > > showing up in the backend or in the database itself. > > > > Bit awkward as there's no error message to give a hint about it > > > > Don't suppose you have any ideas do you? > > > > All the best. > > > > Doug > > > > On 7/29/06, Alastair Rankine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 29/07/2006, at 7:11 PM, Doug Bromley wrote: > > > > > > Thanks Alistair and Phil. Much appreciate your help. Its now working > > > like a charm so I shall get on with the process of converting > > > entirely. > > > > > > Doug, > > > > > > Good luck. I finally made the switch from Wordpress to Typo a few days > > > ago. > > > Still coming to grips with it, but mostly very successful. > > > > > > One other change that I had to make was to fixup some numeric XML entities > > > (like "ሴ") in article titles. > > > > > > Set > > > $KCODE="u" > > > > > > Then for each article: > > > a.title = CGI::unescapeHTML a.title > > > > > > It seems that Typo escapes the characters in the article titles, but > > > Wordpress doesn't. I am probably the only person in the world to use these > > > numeric entities so I haven't bothered submitting a patch. Quite happy to, > > > if anyone thinks it's worthwhile. > > > > > > Other than that the conversion process worked great. > > > > > > BTW I can also recommend my hosting provider, a2hosting. They support > > > rails > > > and even have a knowledgebase article for Typo > > > (https://support.a2hosting.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=378&nav=0,23,36) > > > > > > Again, good luck. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Typo-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Typo-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
