So I’ve just had to migrate a whole load of data to bbPress, and unfortunately the fairly old migration tool I was using (while generally excellent) didn’t bring across the topic-slugs, meaning I couldn’t have pretty permalinks in bbPress. So I’ve written a quick plugin which creates the topic slugs, it does this by doing 1000 at a time every time the page loads, then it very rudely bangs up a big text notice telling you it’s done and you should remove the plugin… at this point bbPress won’t work until you remove the plugin. You have been warned. I couldn’t be bothered with polite messages as this is a one use migration tool. :)
Updated version, this one also create forum slugs:
<?php /* Plugin Name: Create Slugs Description: Creates topic and forum slugs where previously there weren't any. Outputs into error log, only works on plugin activation. Plugin URI: http://simonwheatley.co.uk/bbpress/create-slugs Author: simonwheatley Author URI: http://simonwheatley.co.uk Version: 1.1 */ class CreateSlugs { protected $topics_have_slugs; protected $forums_have_slugs; function __construct() { global $bbdb; $this->db = & $bbdb; $this->topics_have_slugs = false; $this->forums_have_slugs = false; } public function create_slugs() { $this->create_topic_slugs(); if ( ! $this->topics_have_slugs ) return; $this->create_forum_slugs(); if ( ! $this->forums_have_slugs ) return; // Finished! echo "Everything now has slugs, you can disable the create topic slugs plugin by removing it from the plugins directory."; exit; } protected function maybe_finished() { // if ( ! $this->forums_have_slugs ) return; } protected function create_topic_slugs() { error_log( "TOPICS" ); $topics = $this->slugless( 'topics' ); if ( ! count( $topics ) ) $this->topics_have_slugs = true; foreach( $topics AS $topic ) { $new_slug = $this->generate_slug( 'topic', $topic->topic_id, $topic->topic_title ); $this->update_topic_slug( $topic->topic_id, $new_slug ); error_log( "$new_slug >> $topic->topic_title" ); } error_log( "Last Query: " . $this->db->last_query ); } protected function create_forum_slugs() { error_log( "FORUMS" ); $forums = $this->slugless( 'forums' ); if ( ! count( $forums ) ) $this->forums_have_slugs = true; foreach( $forums AS $forum ) { $new_slug = $this->generate_slug( 'forum', $forum->forum_id, $forum->forum_name ); $this->update_forum_slug( $forum->forum_id, $new_slug ); error_log( "$new_slug >> $forum->forum_name" ); } } protected function slugless( $type ) { // Just do 1,000 at a time for now if ( $type == 'topics' ) { $topics_table = $this->db->topics; $sql = " SELECT topic_id, topic_title FROM $topics_table WHERE topic_slug IS NULL OR topic_slug = '' LIMIT 1000 "; } if ( $type == 'forums' ) { $forums_table = $this->db->forums; $sql = " SELECT forum_id, forum_name FROM $forums_table WHERE forum_slug IS NULL OR forum_slug = '' LIMIT 1000 "; } // No need to prepared the SQL, no user input return $this->db->get_results( $sql ); } protected function generate_slug( $type, $id, $title ) { $slug = $_slug = bb_slug_sanitize( wp_specialchars_decode( $title, ENT_QUOTES ) ); if ( strlen( $_slug ) < 1 ) $slug = $_slug = '0'; // Ensure the slug is unique while ( is_numeric( $slug ) || $existing_slug = $this->existing_slug( $type, $id, $slug ) ) { $slug = bb_slug_increment( $_slug, $existing_slug ); } return $slug; } protected function existing_slug( $type, $id, $slug ) { if ( $type == 'topic' ) { $table = $this->db->topics; $sql = "SELECT topic_slug FROM $table WHERE topic_slug = %s AND topic_id != %d"; } if ( $type == 'forum' ) { $table = $this->db->forums; $sql = "SELECT forum_slug FROM $table WHERE forum_slug = %s AND forum_id != %d"; } $prepared_sql = $this->db->prepare( $sql, $slug, $id ); return $this->db->get_var( $prepared_sql ); } protected function update_topic_slug( $topic_id, $topic_slug ) { $table = $this->db->topics; $data = array( 'topic_slug' => $topic_slug ); $where = array( 'topic_id' => $topic_id ); $this->db->update( $table, $data, $where ); } protected function update_forum_slug( $forum_id, $forum_slug ) { $table = $this->db->forums; $data = array( 'forum_slug' => $forum_slug ); $where = array( 'forum_id' => $forum_id ); $this->db->update( $table, $data, $where ); } } $create_slugs = new CreateSlugs(); add_action( 'bb_init', array( & $create_slugs, 'create_slugs' ) ); ?>
I was thinking i am lost but you saved me.
Very helpfull! You should consider add this plugin at http://bbpress.org/plugins/
Thank you very much for plugin.
thanks for the script simon. I test converted a forum from SMF (don’t even remember how, but I managed to do it through phpBB3) and it was missing the topic_slug and forum_slug columns.
Hi Simon,
Thanks fir the script. This plugin might help me a lot but I cant’ use it.
I just upload it to the bb-plugins directory and rename it create-slugs.php but it doesn’t appear in the plugin page of the admin panel.
Any idea ?
Ok, it runs now. I was messing up with the php editor on my mac / http://php.about.com/od/programs/qt/TextEdit_PHP.htm