Manual talk:PhpWiki conversion

i found that the regex's noted in the topic left things all backward, so i modified them:

# link markup
s!\[\(.*\)|\(http.*\)]![\2 \1]!g  # url format -- OK
s!\[\(.*\)|\(.*\)\]![\2|\1]!g  # switch display and link text -- OK
s! |\]!]!g
s!\[ ![!g
s!|! !g
# s!\[\([^]]*\)\]!\1!g  # double bracketize -- OK
# s!\[\[\(http.*\)\]\]![\1]!g  # undo double-bracketing urls by above -- OK

Update on the sed Method for MediaWiki Version 1.15.1

I found that for a very basic phpwiki the sed script on the main page worked fine. Some '^M' end of lines were inserted but the following vim workflow fixed those:

cd converted
vim *
%s/\r\n/\r/g
%s/\r//g
:q

Like I said I was running a simple installation with not too many pages or plugins.

I also bypassed the database import step by using the [file import script] with the following BASH script:

for FILE in *
do
   php maintanence/importTextFile.php --user=pbrady --comment="Initial creation of the content from PHPWiki" converted/"${FILE}"
done

You will need to add the appropriate paths to importTextFile.php and the php binary.