So, you may have noticed a few changes around here… The biggest change is that Rusted is no longer using Forum5000. I’ve been goofing around with Movable Type for a couple months now, and I finally decided that the combinations of features that it offers was worth upgrading to.
Anyways, the important thing is that the upgrade is all done, and Rusted’s running the new software. There will be more changes over the next few days as I nail down the design and stuff, but all the old posts are here, and everything should be working. If you’re interested in the more geeky aspects of the upgrade, read on…
Once I decided to upgrade, the next challenge was figuring out how to get all the posts from the F5K into MT. I beat my head for an evening against a conversion script based on one that Steve wrote when we upgraded from FCS to F5K. It was a PHP script that copied data from one database to the other, field for field.
I couldn’t get it to work, and it kept failing in completely different ways, so I finally decided to admit I was in over my head, and called Miles to see if he could help. He was busy, but he did suggest I look at the MT developer docs, which led me to find the MT Import File Format.
Now, this was something I understood. Over the next hour, I converted a copy of the F5K install to produce the MT format instead of HTML, and even learned how to use the PHP strtotime function to convert the dates to the format MT was expecting.
Anyways, after a lengthy conversion process, I finally finished the import process, and now I’m running the fancy new MT software! Hooray!
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Is the right hand column supposed to expand beyond the edge of the page? Horizontal scrolling is a pain … B-)
January 29th, 2004 at 7:27 pm
No, it’s not supposed to… that’s a bug caused by IE6, which I plan on fixing soon, when I get the design ironed out.
January 30th, 2004 at 9:11 am
Temporary Fix: I applied a different default style, which doesn’t break in IE6.
January 30th, 2004 at 10:25 am
So . . . if I have a Rusted account, how do I post? Do I have to install Movable Type on my computer?
January 31st, 2004 at 6:45 pm