So phpnuke just a a string representation...
As far as I know, It's not possible to do it with just MySQL, though there may be some function I'm not aware of.
The Unix binary `strtotime`, used to convert a multitude of readable date formats into a Unix timestamp, should be able to do that. So you could retrieve the users table from phpnuke with some script, run it through strtotime, then insert the altered value into the xoops.
PHP has the strtotime() function, and I'd be surprised if Perl didn't have it.
Chris
Eric Wagar wrote:
Looking at the structure of xoops.users shows the users_regdate as int(10), and phpnuke.users is varchar(20).
This means that phpnuke.users would need to be ||UNIX_TIMESTAMP(). And, I see in the MySQL book (2nd ed., pg 828) that UNIX_TIMESTAMP works with date-time or timestamp format of ccyymmdd or yymmdd, which is different than the May 1, 2004, example.
Should I assume that I need to run some type of script against that column of data? If so, how do I do it?
Thanks Eric
I don't have experience with either of those programs, but I think you can convert them.
It looks like phpnuke is keeping the date in a DATE (or maybe a DATETIME or TIMESTAMP) column and xoops is keeping the date in an INTEGER column in Unix timestamp format.
If both of those are true then you can easily convert from one or the other using the |FROM_UNIXTIME() or ||UNIX_TIMESTAMP() functions.
I am testing moving from a phpnuke site to a xoops site. In doing so, I am trying to get the user table moved over.
I see in the phpnuke tables (which a similar table exists in xoops) that the users have a sign up date. The date in phpnuke is the calendar day, May 1, 2004, for example. In xoops, it is seconds since 1-1-1970.
Is there a way to convert all 24K+ users from the day to the second format?
And, if not, would it be possible to zero out or empty the records? And,
what are the ramifications of doing so? (The most important to us is the
ability to keep username, email, and password.)
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