Moving from Greymatter to MovableType, with inbound links intact
Pointless Things I Learned The Hard Way #2: That moving a Greymatter blog to MovableType is a pain in the arse, unless of course the Greymatter install is broken in some insidious way which it refuses to divulge (despite all its nice diagnostics and repair features), in which case it is such a pain in the arse that it's quicker to just write some code to do it.
Here is the code. Edit the constants, then drop it in your GM folder and chmod it to 755. You can run it either on the command line or via CGI (in which case you'll want to give it a .cgi suffix), and it will spit out a file ready to be imported into MT. It turns out that this is a considerably quicker method than following the MT docs.
The cause behind all this was the migration of Leslie Harpold's fantastic 500 project, which I heartily recommend that you all go and enjoy now, rather than finishing this utterly dull blog entry since she's several orders of magnitude more interesting a writer than I am. Existing fans may note that it looks completely identical to how it did before, in which case I thank them because that was the other hard part.
The hardest part of that was keeping all the inbound archive links working. I had various ideas involving Apache redirects and the like before realising that getting MT just to output the pages with the same filenames as before was probably going to be easier, and it was. To do this, I had to persuade MT to number the individual entry archives according to the entry's position in the blog entry sequence, so that entry #1 in the blog would be 00000001.html, entry #2 would be 00000002.html, etc. There's no easy way of doing that in the base install; the <$MTEntryID$> tag returns the entry's position in the MT database as a whole, and if there are other blogs pre-existing, then the IDs won't start from 1.
I figured there was probably a plugin out there to do this already, and I was right: Lummox JR's EntryNumber plugin. So I installed it and set the Individual Entry Archive's Archive File Template value to this:
<$MTEntryNumber zero_pad="8"$>.html
However, that didn't quite do it, since the archive for this blog is missing a few corrupted entries and so the numbers jump at points. To fix this, I padded the generated export file with blank entries and set them to Draft status after the import. Then, I made a tweak to the EntryNumber plugin to make it include Draft entries in its number sequence by adding the incdraft="1" attribute to the tag:
unless($count=$cache->{$entry->id}) {
my %terms = ( blog_id => $entry->blog_id );
$terms{author_id}=$entry->author_id if $args->{author};
$terms{status} = MT::Entry::RELEASE() unless $args->{incdraft};
I've submitted these changes back to Lummox JR, so he might have included them in the code by the time you read this and you won't need to make the tweak. If you're trying to do this. Which hopefully you aren't.
Coming up next: Something remotely relevant to anyone else, I hope...
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