I want to do a backup of my blogs in business catalyst, but i can only import. There is no export features.
So I want to go on the business catalyst server directly to get the files, but I can't find any of them, even when doing a 'Find all in folder' search.
Where are the blogs files ? I can actually see my blogs on the business catalyst site so they must be somewhere, right ?
Please help!
There is no immediate access to an export of the Blog module in BC. Also the posts are saved server side in a database, so you will not find them in FTP as they are not filed that exist on the site. Both these points means it won't be simple to get them out.
The only thing you can do is put all the posts out into an RSS feed and the download the XML as a backup. Some more of this method is explained on the Adobe forums - https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1002301
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I have a site that I'm looking to transfer to Volusion. Importing tabled content into Volusion's a breeze, it's getting it tabled that's an issue. The old site has no real ability to export, nor do I know how to get at it's database. I'm thinking there must be some sort of script I can write to take the content from the frontend and download it in some sort of list that I can put into a CSV, and put into Volusion.
www.twincitygreetings.com
Any suggestions? I'm hoping to get in the image directory as well and download all them for upload to the new site.
You are going to need at the very least a file with product code, product name, weight and price.
Looking at the URL you provided it doesn't appear that the products their follow any type of orderly structure where you can target the images folder or products based on a known piece of information like a products code. Unless the back-end has some type of product export function you may have no choice but to recreate it from scratch.
I don't know if you solved this yet or not, but I would suggest scraping the data providing you have the information on the old site currently. This can be done easily using vbscript and excel, or if you aren't very savvy at coding you could look at a piece of software called mozenda. There are a whole variety of methods that can be used to scrape data, all of them pretty easy to learn with a bit of research. Basically you write a script that will crawl your dom and extract the data (to xml works best in my experience)
Hope this helps.
Sorry for probably duplication but I am not technically minded so I do not understand most of the other posts.
I used to have a website hosted by Spruz - I have exported the user data in CSV files. I want to import this data into my Joomla site (hosted by 1and1) so users of the old ste can log in to the new one without signing up again - I have contacted 1and1 multiple times but I haven't got a helpful answer yet.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
If you are not technically minded, then you are going to have to use a third party extension to do this. There are a few here:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/migration-a-conversion/users-import-a-export
Make sure your csv matches the format they require.
If you want to do it manually with a database query, then the users table is where most of the data is stored, but check out what all the other tables starting user_ are saving when a user is created, as you may need to link their id to their usergroup or profile.
http://docs.joomla.org/Tables
(Unless they built your site, then it is very unlikely that web hosts will help with any questions about the website's content. You may need to hire a developer to help you if you get really stuck.)
I'm trying to create a sample ASP.NET MVC application with a ViewModel and onion architecture - very simple online shop.
So as you suppose this shop has products, and each product should have one very small image and when user clicks on that product, he is redirected to a details page, and of course he should see a bigger image of the product.
AT first I thought, it's a simple application, I would (internet) links to the pictures in the database. But then I thought, ok what about when this image is erased from internet, my product will no longer have an image.
So I should store those pictures in the database somehow. I have heard about something called FileStream that is the right way but I found no material to understand what is that.
I hope someone would help me.
There are several options. You could save the picture in the database using a varbinary.
Read here how to read it using MVC.
When you opt for a solution where you split database and file storage, which is perfectly possible, you should consider that it could mean extra maintenance for cross-checking deleted records, etc.
If you choose the last option, the information in the article will mostly suite your needs too.
I am interested in creating a video databse. My goal is to have a folder where my videos will be kept and each time I copy/delete a video the website that presents them should be updated to. the problem is I have no idea how to approach it.
Should I..
Use Sql and store a reference to each video location?
Have a script that checks all the time if new changes happen in that folder?
A package like joomla?
I am using ubuntu btw. I already have a simple html5 page, and I am presenting the videos using html5 video.
It depends on the size and the performance you want.
1.Way : use php to scan the folder and generate links on the fly
2.way : Use a database to store the file names and retrieve the names from the database and generate urls
pros and cons.
simple to implement , no changes in upload or download script. no database required.
You need have a database , little coding required for upload and also while genrating a page
You should make a db (format does not matter) and storing in it only file names of videos: the videos would be stored on hard drive.
Any operation on the web site will pass first on db for insert/update/delete videos records and then (maybe in a transaction context) on the file system.
This would be the standard approach to your question.
I want to write an application that reads blogpost from the internet and then present in my own way.
The blogposts are stored in databases, so I figured that the only thing I had to do was to query an online database for the posts that I want to show.. But I can´t find a way to opoen a connecion to an online database...
anyone out there with a solution to my problem?
//Narancha
if the blog you are interested in, has an RSS feed, you can connect to this and use xslt to transform this to html and use css to style that