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Hello:

I searched the docs and forums to see if anyone specifically addresses this issue...e.g., what if one already has a gallery loaded with pics (over 5,000 with captions, descriptions) and wants to migrate the to Phoca without getting a migraine headache.

I think the recent 2.0.0 release seems ready for primetime and other users commented, I don't wan't to deal with invasive bridges anymore. While I have seen discussions on features in other galleries that would be nice to have in Phoca, I (and I apologize if did) missed the part on how to migrate an existing gallery to Phoca.

Other galleries usually use import scripts created by the community (no, I'm not a coder). It's probably too early in the dev stage to have that ready, but if someone has successfully done it manually, I'd like to give it a try because (again) G2 (while feature rich) doesn't integrate with Joomla well and I want a robust native script. For anybody who has done it, I guess I need to know which fields get mapped to Phoca's database, which ones are discarded, etc.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

I'm certainly no expert, brand new actually. But so far I have seen no mention of any import tools. But, I would suggest checking out this section of the User Manual, which might be helpful:

https://www.phoca.cz/documentation/index ... ough-guide

Hi, I didn't do Gallery2 and don't know its framework ... so there is no migration script from some other gallery ... the problem is, there is no time for developing Phoca Gallery nor for learning other projects and doing migration scripts maybe someone did this action, maybe he (she) can give us advice ...

Jan

Jan wrote:Hi, I didn't do Gallery2 and don't know its framework ... so there is no migration script from some other gallery ... the problem is, there is no time for developing Phoca Gallery nor for learning other projects and doing migration scripts maybe someone did this action, maybe he (she) can give us advice ...

Jan

I knew there was (is) no migration script, but I put the question out there because I know that as Phoca gets functionality that approaches the standalones like Coppermine, G2, etc., there will be more requests for this. Like you, I'm hoping that someone has done it already, or at least can give us hints to make the process as painless as possible.

Great work on the gallery.