[GUIDE] Extend the Importers

[xfrocks]

As I read through this thread of Paul, I tried to extend the Importer without copying over the old importer code. It's pretty simple and straight forward. Below is the basic steps, I'm going to release a addon using this soon so you can see that later.

1. Add your listener to load_class_model and extend XenForo_Model_Import
2. Override the method named getImporter and wait for somebody calls XenForo_Importer_vBulletin, use the idea of XenForo_Application::resolveDynamicClass and you can extend that class
3. In your class (MyAddon_Importer_vBulletin), override the method getSteps, catch the parent generated array and add your owns
4. Add extra methods to your MyAddon_Importer_vBulletin to handle those extra steps (stepX, stepY, etc)

Hope this helps and gives somebody ideas Or you can wait my addon

 

[RvG]

we better wait for you lol

 

[xfrocks]

It's available now http://xenforo.com/community/threads/bd-banking.5853/

 

[ragtek]

thx very much for this tutorial and the add-on with the example code

this was very useful