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I’ve been looking all around for a CMS as fully functional as EE and I’ve pretty much settled on using it however I have about 3 years of blog entries on Joomla and about 5 years of SMF posts that I can’t afford to lose. I see that movable type and phpBB will both import to EE however there’s nothing for either Joomla or SMF. I’ve looked all over this forum and haven’t found anything that solves my problem. Does anyone have any suggestions for solving my problem. I REALLY want to move to EE. I’m currently using a bridged Joomla-SMF setup that have separate databases. The users are synchronized between both databases. Does anyone know if it’s even possible to produce a custom script that would take care of this migration? If so, I’ll probably pay to have one made. I wasn’t sure if it was even possible though. Thanks in advance-

Welcome to the EE forums. The answer to your question is that anything is possible. The only difficlty you may have would be a difference in the type of data stored in the SMF DB vs the EE Forums. But migrating should be fairly straight forward for anyone with a good DB background. In order to make it happen you probably will have to pay someone. You may want to find a good mySQL person to do this.

And again, welcome I too use Joomla on project. EE is a whole different world in a good way. They both have their pluses and minuses. But I think you will like the EE system.

M.

Thanks for the response. Are there dedicated EE service providers. I haven’t been able to find any. I think there’d be plenty of people (the Joomla community is huge) who’d move over to EE if there was a working script to handle this type of thing.

There sure is. Engine Hosting
www.enginehosting.com

There sure is. Engine Hosting
www.enginehosting.com

Thanks but I wasn’t talking about hosting. I was referring to actual service like programming, coding, etc.

I’ve since found this: http://expressionengine.com/professionals/category/ee_migration/ so I’ll look in to the possibilities.

Yes, the professional network is the obvious choice. Having said that, if you can somehow massage your data into the MT file format, you can then leave the import to EE. This works with many blogginy systems / CMSs, including WP, Drupal etc, not just MT.