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well, this import went so-so. The messages are there, but the pagination of messages is “off”. Page one has 7 messages, while page 2 has only 6 messages. Pages 3 and 4 have only 4 messages, and when I click on page 5, it says “you have no messages in your inbox.” I guess that’s what hacking gets you.

Anybody have ideas on what to do next?

Thank you, Andy. I did try that function but I must have forgotten to echo it. FOLKS, don’t forget to echo your functions!!

Thanks, Andy! I went into the database and observed how these arrays morph as more posts are made. Here’s what I figured out about the serialized array in BP’s wp_bp_messages_threads table:

First of all, the wp_bp_messages_threads table is indeed the table that associates “messages” table with “recipients” table.

In the message_ids column:

a:4:{i:0;i:1;i:1;i:2;i:2;i:3;i:3;i:5;}

– a:4 means there are 4 messages in the thread

– the i’s are the links between messages in the thread. There are 4 messages in the thread, and the thread IDs are 1, 2, 3, and 5. I’m not sure why we start with i:0 to i:1, but after that the connections are i:1 to i:2, i:2 to i:3, and i:3 to i:5.

In the sender_ids column:

a:2:{i:0;i:1;i:1;s:1:”2″;}

– I guess a:2 means that the sender has 2 messages in the thread, but I don’t know why that information is useful yet. I don’t know what the i’s mean in this context. I don’t know what s means. “2” is the user_id of the sender.

I was able to put this together and come up with a simple import script that turns phpBB message data into BP messages. It’s just a “flat” import, by which I mean that the script does not use the BP threading functionality; it just gives every message a simple “message_ids” table entry, such as a:1:{i:0;i:55;} where 55 is the id of the message, and a simple “sender_ids” entry, such as a:1:{i:0;i:3;}, where 3 is the id of the user in wp_users.

Is somebody putting all this in the codex? I don’t feel I’m qualified enough to enter these snippets, but hopefully this type of documentation will be emerging soon.

for anyone else attempting this, I also had to delete these lines:

// If the user can’t edit posts, send them to their profile.

if ( !$user->has_cap(‘edit_posts’) && ( empty( $redirect_to ) || $redirect_to == ‘wp-admin/’ ) )

I tried deleting “wp-admin” but somehow that wasn’t enough to force the redirect to the main BP page. Don’t know enough about PHP to figure out what I’m doing wrong there.

Thanks ron_r but I don’t think that link works:

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I’m sure google is on this, so we can just google site:buddypress.org