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Howdy! This importer allows you to extract posts from any RSS 2.0 file into your blog. This is useful if you want to import your posts from a system that is not handled by a custom import tool. To get started you must edit the following line this file (import-rss.php)

define('RSSFILE', '');

You want to define where the RSS file we'll be working with is, for example:

define('RSSFILE', 'rss.xml');

You have to do this manually for security reasons.

If you've done that and you’re all ready, let's go!

previous page to continue."); // Bring in the data set_magic_quotes_runtime(0); $datalines = file(RSSFILE); // Read the file into an array $importdata = implode('', $datalines); // squish it $importdata = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r"), "\n", $importdata); preg_match_all('|(.*?)|is', $importdata, $posts); $posts = $posts[1]; echo '
    '; foreach ($posts as $post) : $title = $date = $categories = $content = $post_id = ''; echo "
  1. Importing post... "; preg_match('|(.*?)|is', $post, $title); $title = addslashes( trim($title[1]) ); $post_name = sanitize_title($title); preg_match('|(.*?)|is', $post, $date); $date = strtotime($date[1]); if (!$date) : // if we don't already have something from pubDate preg_match('|(.*?)|is', $post, $date); $date = preg_replace('|(-[0-9:]+)$|', '', $date[1]); $date = strtotime($date); endif; $post_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $date); preg_match_all('|(.*?)|is', $post, $categories); $categories = $categories[1]; if (!$categories) : preg_match_all('|(.*?)|is', $post, $categories); $categories = $categories[1]; endif; preg_match('|(.*?)|is', $post, $content); $content = str_replace( array(''), '', addslashes( trim($content[1]) ) ); if (!$content) : // This is for feeds that put content in description preg_match('|(.*?)|is', $post, $content); $content = addslashes( trim($content[1]) ); endif; // Now lets put it in the DB if ($wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $tableposts WHERE post_title = '$title' AND post_date = '$post_date'")) : echo 'Post already imported'; else : $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $tableposts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_title,post_status, comment_status, ping_status, post_name) VALUES ('$post_author', '$post_date', DATE_ADD('$post_date', INTERVAL '$add_hours:$add_minutes' HOUR_MINUTE), '$content', '$title', 'publish', '$comment_status', '$ping_status', '$post_name')"); $post_id = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $tableposts WHERE post_title = '$title' AND post_date = '$post_date'"); if (!$post_id) die("couldn't get post ID"); if (0 != count($categories)) : foreach ($categories as $post_category) : // See if the category exists yet $cat_id = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT cat_ID from $tablecategories WHERE cat_name = '$post_category'"); if (!$cat_id && '' != trim($post_category)) { $cat_nicename = sanitize_title($post_category); $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $tablecategories (cat_name, category_nicename) VALUES ('$post_category', '$cat_nicename')"); $cat_id = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT cat_ID from $tablecategories WHERE cat_name = '$post_category'"); } if ('' == trim($post_category)) $cat_id = 1; // Double check it's not there already $exists = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $tablepost2cat WHERE post_id = $post_id AND category_id = $cat_id"); if (!$exists) { $wpdb->query(" INSERT INTO $tablepost2cat (post_id, category_id) VALUES ($post_id, $cat_id) "); } endforeach; else: $exists = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $tablepost2cat WHERE post_id = $post_id AND category_id = 1"); if (!$exists) $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $tablepost2cat (post_id, category_id) VALUES ($post_id, 1) "); endif; echo 'Done!
  2. '; endif; endforeach; ?>

All done. Have fun!