How to convert podPress to podcasting plugin database?

Great feature suggestion Saberj. I’ll add an option that says automatically place a player at the beginning / ending of a post.

Hi Cavemonkey50 and thanks for an alternative to PodPress.

Im attempting to import my PodPress posts but on clicking import get this error:

“Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/somefool/public_html/path/to/wp-content/plugins/podcasting/podpress_importer.php on line 53”

the code around line 53 is
$podcast = unserialize($data[‘meta_value’]);
$podcast[0][‘post_id’] = $data[‘post_id’];
$podcast[0][‘itunes’] = unserialize($itunes_info[0][‘meta_value’]);

Any fixes would be greatly appreciated

Thanks.

I just checked in a potential fix. Let me know if it works.

I get this

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/somefool/public_html/path/to/cms/wp-content/plugins/podcasting/podpress_importer.php on line 71

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/somefool/public_html/path/to/cms/wp-content/plugins/podcasting/podpress_importer.php on line 71

Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/somefool/public_html/path/to/cms/wp-content/plugins/podcasting/podpress_importer.php on line 88

Try the latest again. If this doesn’t resolve it, what version of PHP is your server running?

Should I be getting the latest from here https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/podcasting.zip ?

Now says

Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/somefool/public_html/fawcettmade/cms/wp-content/plugins/podcasting/podpress_importer.php on line 54

php is version 5.2.5

If possible, could you send me a database dump of your WordPress install. The main table I need to look at is wp_postmeta. Something is weird in your install, and having that table would help figure out the issue.

I forgot to mention where to send it to. Email me at ron at cavemonkey50 dot com.

Sent

Great feature suggestion Saberj. I’ll add an option that says automatically place a player at the beginning / ending of a post.

Is it already implemented? Right now I already have 3k podcasts with autoplacement, and will be try it soon.

No, it has not been implemented yet. I’m a college student and I’ve been swamped with work as late, and unfortunately have not found the time to work on adding functionality lately.

try the https://wpaudioplayer.com/ plugin. if you have an enclosure on your post, the wp-audioplayer plugin can auto insert a flash player for you.

I’m trying to patch the importer to work with WPMU. The only obvious change that I can see in the code is to change the name of the postmeta table to follow the WPMU naming convention. So in the file, wherever I see

$wpdb->postmeta

I’ve changed it to

$wpdb->wp_1_postmeta

This is a quick hack that would only run the script for the first blog, but it should work. When I run it, I get the error:

Successfully imported 0 podcasts.

Does anyone else see any other changes that are necessary to get the importer to work with WPMU?

I have been looking into getting the importer working with WPMU.

What you changed will probably not work. $wpdb->postmeta is a variable, and I don’t think there is a variable for $wpdb->wp_1_postmeta. I would try just removing that area and replacing it with ‘wp_1_postmeta’. That should work.

Let me know your findings.