Hopeless Geek

As promised, the parts of Drupal that I changed to get CP working the way I like it.

In mt2drupal I changed:

line 279: my $file = $blog->archive_url . sprintf("%06d", $entry->id) . ".html";

This part just mimics the old MT archive paths of /archives/000102.html and doesn’t handle the newer format, or custom formats. Thankfully, MT 3 has a method of getting the calculated archive path. So we change this line to say:

line 279: my $file = $entry->archive_url("Individual");

That gets us whatever the permalink is to the entry. Now when things are imported, all the paths will be the same and Drupal will answer to them as if it were MT. Sneaky.

What about TrackBacks? Install the trackback.module file and tables first, and then look at:

line 273: db_query($dbh,"REPLACE INTO ${db_prefix}trackback_pingme (nid, cid) VALUES (%d, %d)", ($preserve_id ? $entry->id : $count), $cid) if ($mode == 0);

This line of code is for Drupal4Bloggers, a custom version of Drupal. Something similar works for the stock TrackBack module, so right below it add the following:

line 274: db_query($dbh,"REPLACE INTO ${db_prefix}trackback_received (nid, cid, url) VALUES (%d, %d, %s)", ($preserve_id ? $entry->id : $count), $cid, $dbh->quote($tb->source_url)) if ($mode == 2);

Now if you’ve set the mode of the script to 2, for Drupal HEAD (aka 4.5, at the time), then it will insert TrackBacks into that table and you’ll get a nice list of TrackBacks on their own tab, like you should.

In autopath.module (a contributed module) I had to change several things. As-is all the module does is make URLs for entries be a modified title at the root of the URL. That’s nice, but not nearly as informative as what I had. That, and I wanted some consistency in my URLs for future’s sake. So I opened it up and made the following changes:

line 24: $alias = str_replace("'", "", $alias);

MT also drops non-alphanumeric characters, so I removed this line and its comment and changed this line:

line 25[1]: $alias = preg_replace("/[\W]+/ ", "_", $alias);

to read

$alias = preg_replace("/[\s]+/ ", '_', $alias);
$alias = preg_replace("/[\W]+/ ", '', $alias);

Now there’s the issue of the dates. I added the following code right before the bit where it checks for existing aliases:

$date = date("Y/m/d/", $node->created);
$alias = "archives/".$date.$alias.".php";

The modified versions of both files are attached.

You will need to rename the files to autopath.module and mt-to-drupal.cgi to get them to work properly. Please download the whole mt2drupal package from the Drupal CVS site before trying to use it. This way you get the README, which you must read.

Q&A

Q: I tried to run the script…

I will not answer your questions on how to use it. There’s a nice post from the author that talks about it and runs over some basics. For everything else, get the original package from him and read the documentation. If you’re still lost, well, I’m sorry.

Q: Will you post the changes to the Drupal CVS?

The moment I figure out how to get an account, yes. At the moment, that’s not high on my list of to-dos.

Q: Can I add the changes to CVS in your name?

No, but I lay no claim to the two lines of code. Post it as yourself, I don’t care.

¹ New line number after removing the noted lines.

Attachment	Size
autopath.module.txt	1.52 KB
mt-to-drupal.txt	13.18 KB

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