Stevenjaycohen has posted a script to migrate GS Blog posts to News Manager:
http://get-simple.info/forums/showthread.php?tid=3972&pid=31496#pid31496
<?php
if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/data/blog')) {
echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
echo "Entries:<br/>";
$entries=array();
/* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */
while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {
echo $entry."<br/>";
if (strpos($entry, ".") != 0){
$entries [] = $entry;
}
}
closedir($handle);
echo "<br/><br/><b>".count($entries)." Entries</b>";
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
foreach ($entries as $filename){
if ($file = file_get_contents("/full/path/to/data/blog/".$filename)){
echo "<br/>Got ".$filename."!<br/>";
$newfile='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item>';
$titleStart = strpos($file,"<title>");
$titleEnd = strpos($file,"</title>");
$titleEnd = $titleEnd - $titleStart + 8;
$title = substr($file, $titleStart, $titleEnd);
$newfile .= $title;
$dateStart = strpos($file,"<date>");
$dateStart = $dateStart + 15;
$dateEnd = strpos($file,"</date>");
$dateEnd = $dateEnd - $dateStart - 3;
$oldDate = substr($file, $dateStart, $dateEnd);
echo "<br/>".$oldDate."<br/>";
$oDate = new DateTime($oldDate);
$date = "<date><![CDATA[".date_format($oDate, 'D, d M Y G:i:s O')."]]></date>";
$newfile .= $date;
$tagsStart = strpos($file,"<tags>");
$tagsEnd = strpos($file,"</tags>");
$tagsEnd = $tagsEnd - $tagsStart + 7;
$tags = substr($file, $tagsStart, $tagsEnd);
$newfile .= $tags;
$privateStart = strpos($file,"<private");
$privateEnd = strpos($file,"</private>");
$privateEnd = $privateEnd - $privateStart + 10;
$private = substr($file, $privateStart, $privateEnd);
$newfile .= $private;
$contentStart = strpos($file, "<content>");
$contentEnd = strpos($file, "</content>");
$contentEnd = $contentEnd - $contentStart + 10;
$content = substr($file, $contentStart, $contentEnd);
$newfile .= $content;
$newfile .= "</item>";
file_put_contents("/full/path/to/data/posts/".$filename, $newfile);
}
}
}
?>