September 29th, 2003

Paulo says: (4:22:05 PM)
   found the bug!!!

Paulo says: (4:22:07 PM)
   woohoo

melanie got 110 says: (4:23:47 PM)
   did you kill it?

Paulo says: (4:24:24 PM)
   a colspan tag was bugging a table, 2 instead of 3 LOL it took 30 minutes

Paulo says: (4:24:34 PM)
   that sucks!

melanie got 110 says: (4:25:17 PM)
   and it took 30 minutes for the table to do anything?

melanie got 110 says: (4:25:25 PM)
   man – how tolerant a table!!!

Paulo says: (4:25:59 PM)
   LOL

melanie got 110 says: (4:27:12 PM)
   so what did the table do? tell the colspan tag’s mommie on him?

Paulo says: (4:28:05 PM)
   he asked his big brother cellspan to beat me up and go into a weird unexplainable extra image

melanie got 110 says: (4:28:40 PM)
   oh – and that worked?

melanie got 110 says: (4:28:45 PM)
   you wuss…

melanie got 110 says: (4:28:49 PM)
   told of by a big brother…

melanie got 110 says: (4:28:52 PM)
   *off

Paulo says: (4:30:30 PM)
   yeap, I kicked hios ass eventually

melanie got 110 says: (4:31:52 PM)
   good for you!

So b2 has a few little ‘bugs’. basically its a piece of unmaintaned shit. I went to post my ‘fixes’ in the forum and found out you have to login to post anything, so frig em, ill jsut post them here for my own refernece.

To import blog stuff from blogger, just follow the steps they say in the blogger-2-b2.php file to get a heap of files that contain your blogger posts. Then you gotta do a few things to the b2 mysql database tables.
1) Change the int(10) value to BIGINT(20) for the post ID fields, in both the wp_posts (ID, post_author, post_date, post_content, post_title, post_category) and b2comments tables.
2) Do a search for ‘intval’ (without quotes) in the blog.header.php file and b2template.functions.php file. In both files, comment the line out thats says somthign like p$ = intval(p$).

So basically you gotta find every occurance of intval and get rid of it IF it is changeing the post ID value to an INT, we dont want this anymore cause we are using BIGINT.

*sigh* thats it – i think – this thing could still be dodgy.

Well here it is, a new site and new blog. Im using some strange b2 blogging tool, which is kinda ok but has some weird things about it.

Ive managed to convert all my old blogger stuff over as well after some dicking around with the b2 scripts and database. Seems b2 isnt actively worked on anymore, so ill see how it goes.

At the moment its using the default look, sooner or later ill change it over to something new. Id say before long ill write my own publishing system, but until then this will do.