TOPIC: Importing Disqus comments

I'm moving from Disqus to compo. Problem is, i can't figure out how to use the Disqus comment export xml file to move my site's comments to compojoom.

Here's some info:
docs.disqus.com/developers/export/
Here's an example of my site implementation:
www.eezysteezy.com/es-blog-4/49-donek-bo...a-cut-above-the-rest

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hey Garth,
Wow, to be honest I never thought about disqus and an option to import the comments. Now that you mention this I wonder what I was thinking...

Disqus has a different xml export structure that the one of phpmyadmin for example that is why I will need to write you a small script that will import the comments. Give me few hours!

Cheers,
Daniel

I'm nearly ready with the script... How many thousands of comments do you have in disqus?
Daniel

Thousands??? Wow. You overestimate. Let's just say less than 1000.

Hey Garth,
I have the script for joomla 1.5...
I'm going on the road today and tomorrow I'll give you the script + instructions how to use it.
Thanks for your patience!
Daniel

So! There we go!
compojoom.com/blog/news/import-comments-from-disqus

Let me know if you encounter any problems.
Daniel

I'm extremely impressed with your help. Thanks so much for working on this. I've followed your instructions and ended up with this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method SimpleXMLElement::__toString() in /home/eezystee/public_html/disqus/disqus.php on line 57

Any Ideas???

Hey Garth,
What is your php version? I'm on php 5.3

Just upgraded to php 5.3.8 and tried again. Here's what I got this time:

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "disqus.xml" in /home/eezystee/public_html/disqus/disqus.php on line 46

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/eezystee/public_html/disqus/disqus.php on line 52

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/eezystee/public_html/disqus/disqus.php on line 64

Any thoughts?

Hey Garth - well it basically says that it cannot find the disqus.xml file?? Did you place it in the same folder as the disqus.php ?

Btw, you can also give me access to your site and I can do all this for you
Cheers,
Daniel

Very, very awesome. Worked perfect. Thanks so much for your efforts. Above and beyond.

You are always welcome to leave a review here :
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/contact...icles-comments/12259

I'm happy that it is all working now for you!
Daniel

The review is already submitted. Oh, and I'm using Joomla 1.7 and it worked perfect.

*off topic* Also, do you have a comment on this older thread I found?

compojoom.com/forum/1-general/2-general-...egistered-user-login

Thanks again.