Before Cool Cavemen , there was Funky Storm . The band is long gone but I still keep an online presence as a sort of web memorial. Recently I added there an old copy of the forum  .

The original forum was powered by a Phorum 3.x instance. The current incarnation of the website runs on WordPress. So I produced some months ago a quick & dirty Python script to migrate Phorum content to WordPress  .

The script browse Phorum’s MySQL database and generate an XML file. The XML produced respect the WXR dialect (WordPress eXtended RSS), which means the file can be directly imported to a plain WordPress site.

A Phorum thread produces an empty page with the thread’s title only. All thread’s replies are then added as comments of that page. A top-level page is finally created, and all its threads are linked from that parent page.

The script requires the following python modules:

• lxml

• PyMySQL

• bbcode

They can easily be installed on Debian with the following commands:

1$ aptitude install python-pip python-lxml
2$ pip install PyMySQL bbcode

The script is available on GitHub so feel free to send pull request! :)