Import and Export in Elgg 1.0

March 27th, 2008 by Marcus Povey

One of the most requested features for the new Elgg has been a generic way to import and export data. Users want to free their data, and be able to move their profiles between installs.

Quite right, and over the next few days I will be working on this…

…Actually, Elgg1’s new object model actually should make this fairly easy.

Under Elgg1 all entities have a unique identifier, so plugin authors will be able to add extra information to export and import. So, if you were to export a user or a site you will be able to get everything that you have access to.

I think this should be pretty cool.

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3 Responses to “Import and Export in Elgg 1.0”

  1. Danquigny says:
    April 4, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    Hi,

    I taste Elgg in Lille (north of France). I wonder if it’s possible to export an entire blog in an other blog outside elgg (WordlPress by example).
    And print a blog ??
    Thanks
    Thierry

  2. Marcus Povey says:
    April 8, 2008 at 11:14 am

    @Danquigny At the moment there is no easy and universal way to export an entire blog from elgg to something else.

    However, I’m working on universal import / export for the new Elgg version. There will be an upgrade path, so you might want to wait a while and upgrade to 1.0 and then use the export functionality from there…

  3. Marcus Povey » Blog Archive » Elgg 1 object model says:
    April 8, 2008 at 11:21 am

    [...] above is a rather simplistic example of what is possible. I have hinted at some other applications a few posts [...]

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