Two MTI students made a website where people can register the delays they incurred when traveling on the Belgian railroads. For now the website resides on the ELIS servers, and can be reached at http://trappist.elis.ugent.be/~kmillet/. The idea is that the commuters drive the content which should result in an accurate image of the actual delays, rather than the statistics the NMBS gives, as they tend to drop delays smaller than five minutes and prefer to give a more optimistic picture in general. So if you are a commuter, and you use the railroad in Belgium, register and start logging your delays. Spread the word.
Posts Tagged ‘drupal’
NMBS delays
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008WordPress 2 drupal
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007I used to have a wordpress blog at Ghent University, but since acquiring the itkovian.net domain, I decided to move to drupal. However, every tool I found to port my posts over was targetting drupal < 5.0.
A darcs repository is available for a Python script that takes out posts from a wordpress database and injects them into drupal. The code is licensed under the GPL-2, so feel free to extend it.
At the moment this script will only transfer posts, without comments. To transfer the wordpress categories, it requires a free tagging vocabulary, and you need to know its ID in your drupal install (you can find this at ‘admin/content/taxonomy’ and selecting list terms for the chosen vocabulary). It also requires a minor patch to the drupal blogapi module, to allow the wordpress post dates to be taken along. You need a configuration file with a [wordpress] and [drupal] section, detailing the hostname, database, login info, etc. Example configuration files are provided.
You can get the required files by
darcs get http://itkovian.net/darcs/wordpress2drupal
If you choose to extend the code, you can email the darcs patches to itkovian drats gmail drots com.