Elxis 200x.x to 4.x converter

[datahell]

I open this topic as a continue from a Greek topic in order the information to become available to all Elxis users.

We develop an Elxis 2006/2008/2009 to Elxis 4.x converter.
At this time the converter converts sections, categories, articles and autonomous pages. More over it converts Elxis 200x.x bots to Elxis 4.x plugins, and converts mosimages and other standard images, creates URLs as they were on Elxis 200x.x, and in general you get an exact copy of your old Elxis site to a brand new one.

I post a screenshot from a random page of guzzista.gr converted to Elxis 4.1.
The converter is under development and will be available in 3-4 days.

The original page in guzzista.gr

The converted page in Elxis 4.1:

[wbread]

other components and modules that are not in the new version will be completely removed from the database, and all have to erase, such as broken links?

[datahell]

The converter transfers only compatible data.
If for an Elxis 200x.x extension there is a relevant 4.x extension the converter converts the content to make it 4.x compatible. For install bot Easy Gallery is converter to plugin Gallery, bot Youtube plus is converter to plugin Youtube, etc.

[datahell]

The converter is almost complete. It turns to be an excellent tool, safe, problems free, and the converted items are very close to the original ones. In most cases the consersion percentage reaches 100%.

Here is a list of what it does till now and what left to do.

Conversions list (Elxis 2006/2008/2009 to Elxis 4.x)
- Sections > root level categories
- Categories > Sub-categories
- Content items > Articles
- Autonomous pages > Articles
- Eblog > root level category
- Eblogs > sub categories
- Eblog posts > Articles
- Bots > Plugins
- Images > Plugin image
- Users > Users
- Menu types > Menu collections
- Menu items > Menu items

Things to do
- Convert articles in other than the default language to Elxis 4.x translation items. I will develop a translation index system for this purpose.
- Check if conversion would be usefull for some modules.

IOS Reservations conversion list (IOSR 3.5/3.6 to IOSR 4.x)
Almost everything is converted for IOS Reservations including:
Locations, hotels, rooms, room prices, tour operators, hoteliers, reservations, reserved items, bots to plugins, galleries, translations, payment modules.
What is not converted are only hotel and room facilities as they are incompatible with the new facilities system.


The converter will not convert components that they do not exist in Elxis 4.x (IOS Eshop, eForum, Events callendar, etc). The supported components, except the built-in ones are:
- Sitemap
- IOS Reservations
All other components are not converted.

[datahell]

Elxis converter released!
Download from EDC
Usage instructions

[ArXoS]

great news, thanks Elxis for great support

I am testing right now a conversion of a huge database. How can i raise the stepping from 50 to something else (convertions per turn)? It  takes for my database near 200 turns for users and 180 for articles

[datahell]

You can modify the source code and change the $data['limit'] options in the spot you are interested in. I suggest you not to do so or if you do so dont raise it too much.

For each article 20 bot conversions and many other processes run and there are 50 articles per run, meaning a total of 1000 bot conversions per turn. And this only for bots. Many other conversions on images, links, etc, are executed too. If you put a big limit, a php timeout will destroy the conversion and you will have to start from the beginning.

Do this: Count how many seconds each article conversion turn takes to be completed. If it is for example 15 you can almost double the limit, set it to 80-85 (the execution time should not exceed 30 seconds).

[ArXoS]

Ok, something else ...
I converted about 6000 articles from 9000 authors and new site came with 6000 articles only from 1 author, the admin.
I guess this is because the conversion of the articles comes before the conversion of the users, so the converter must give an owner, the admin
Maybe in next version of the converter, the conversion of users come first, so the articles have their real owner

[datahell]

No, this is because on Elxis 4 users are not allowed to write articles and so it would be wrong to leave them shown as authors.

You have alarge site, any problem with the converter? Except the number of clicks you did...

[ArXoS]

No problem at all with the converter. The number of turns are not a problem any more, since i change $data['limit']
Thanks again for the support


Oh, something else ..
I noticed that the conversion of the articles, failed to move the images from old site to new. So i guess that its not safe for me to delete the old site since /images path is necessary for new articles ..

[datahell]

If an image fails to be tranfered the converter doesnt it use. So you dont have broken images. An image will not be tranfered if the destination path is not writeable. Also exteral images are not tranfered but just the html is copied.

[intefix]

Ακολουθώντας το οδηγό έκανα και σε 2ο site μετρατροπή..Αφού έκανε ότι μπορούσε ο μετατροπέας - αφού είχα πριν εγκαταστήσει το image plugin και το sitemap com - τώρα ΔΕΝ έχω πρόσβαση στη διαχείριση...γιατι?
"Δεν έχετε αρκετά προνόμια για να αποκτήσετε πρόσβαση στην κονσόλα διαχείρισης!"

[datahell]

Επέλεξες την μετατροπή των χρηστών; Αν ναι, κατά την διάρκεια της μετατροπής έπρεπε να σημιώσεις τα νέα username/password των διαχειριστών. Αν όχι, μπαίνεις με το παλιό username/password που είχες φτιάξει κατά την εγκατάσταση του Elxis 4.

[intefix]

Βασικά ΔΕΝ επέλεξα τίποτα αλλά σε όλα next-next οπότε να υποθέσω ότι δημιούργησε τους χρήστες του παλιού site. Ωστόσο διέγραψε τον elxis41; γιατί με αυτά τα στοιχεία ΔΕΝ μπαίνω...θα κοιτάξω τη βάση τι χρήστες έχω.
Τελικά βλέπω ότι διέγραψε τον χρήστη της εγκατάστασης και μετέφερε όλους τους χρήστες του προς μεταφορά site.
Μέχρι εδώ καλά. Βλέπω τα MD5 κλειδιά ίδια και χρήστες... Γιατί όμως ΔΕΝ μπαίνω; ενώ στον παλιό ιστότοπο μπαίνω...
Μήπως ΔΕΝ Είναι MD5?

[intefix]

Παίρνω από άλλο site user-pass που τα γνωρίζω και τα βάζω στη βάση...πάλι τα ίδιααααα