XF 1.1 Importing a part of xenForo to a whole new forum (xenForo)

[faeronsayn]

How hard is it to import let's say a section of your current xenForo forum to a whole new xenForo forum? And only import users that have posts from that forum? Also would it be easy to redirect the URLs?

 

[faeronsayn]

Put it right after RewriteEngine On

Got it to work and was able to export the thread IDs into excel, now I just need to some how format them in the required manner which I have no clue on how to do

 

[Jake Bunce]

Got it to work and was able to export the thread IDs into excel, now I just need to some how format them in the required manner which I have no clue on how to do

Excel hax:

http://gotochriswest.com/blog/2011/05/20/concatenating-a-range/

 

[faeronsayn]

Excel hax:

http://gotochriswest.com/blog/2011/05/20/concatenating-a-range/

Used it, that's pretty awesome actually. Anyway, I first tried to copy paste all my thread ID's got a server 500 error misconfiguration. Then I tried just a few, and it worked, then I tried half, and it gave me the same error. Seems like this method can't handle a lot of IDs? In total I have 7000 threads that need to be redirected, so 7000 IDs, it couldn't handle about 3500.

Here is a pastebin of the code I used, this is with about half the IDs

http://pastebin.com/TbWngCjT

 

[Jake Bunce]

Seems like this method can't handle a lot of IDs?

I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[faeronsayn]

I wouldn't be surprised.

Would a php version be more efficient and stable?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Would a php version be more efficient and stable?

You could forward all threads/ requests to a PHP script that checks the ids. Or extend the threads route to check the ids before the request goes to the controller.

This whole thing is nasty, but you are asking the question so...

 

[faeronsayn]

So would I use something like this

<xen:if is="{$forumId} == 1 || {$forumId} == 2 || {$forumId} == 3">
redirect the thread
</xen:if>

Would I use that in the header or something?

 

[Jake Bunce]

It's not done in the templates. PHP programming is required.

 

[faeronsayn]

It's not done in the templates. PHP programming is required.

Where could I look into the if conditions for xenForo in php? Or the function that gets the current node id?

<?php 
 
$node_id = current_node();
 
if ($node_id == 1 || $node_id == 3)  { 
how-would-I-redirect
}
 
?>

 

[faeronsayn]

You could forward all threads/ requests to a PHP script that checks the ids. Or extend the threads route to check the ids before the request goes to the controller.

This whole thing is nasty, but you are asking the question so...

I've recognized that this way is supposedly a lot easier for the server to handle.

redirect 301 /threads/*.68/ http://mynewsite.net/threads/*.68/

I was able to use the same trick that you posted with some modification in excel to come up with the aforementioned redirect for all the ids. The only problem that I think I will have is the use of the asterisk, and I am not really sure if that's even correct.

How can I say to redirect any name in that code, will the asterisk work?

 

[Jake Bunce]

RewriteRule ^threads/([^\.]+)\.(68)/(.*)$ http://mynewsite.net/threads/$1.$2/$3 [R=301,L]

That should do it. The thread_id only occurs once.

 

[faeronsayn]

RewriteRule ^threads/([^\.]+)\.(68)/(.*)$ http://mynewsite.net/threads/$1.$2/$3 [R=301,L]

That should do it. The thread_id only occurs once.

But remember that method was causing my server to throw out errors.

I was able to use this rewrite rule outside of mod_rewrite and it worked perfectly. Just had to repeat it about 7000 times, which apparently wasn't as bad as the other method as the server is running fine.

RedirectMatch permanent ^/threads/(.*)\.550/(.*)$ http://myotherwebsite.com$0

 

[Jake Bunce]

But remember that method was causing my server to throw out errors.

The problem wasn't the use of RewriteRule. The problem was the length of the regular expression. You can use multiple rewrite rules, one per thread_id. Or use RedirectMatch. Same difference.