This script will eventually find it’s way into the PodAPI importing functions, but right now here’s what I’ve got so far. It does quite a bit out of the gate – enjoy!

It imports items from another MySQL table (does multiple at a time actually) into your Pods. So basically, a migration script for those who have their content elsewhere! It’s not limited to straight column-to-column migrations though, it lets you do pre-processing, filtering, post-processing, and many other things!

UPDATE: Now includes Paginated importing (a few at a time with the ‘limit’ option), and verbose information while importing on every step along with a new Estimation / Status box at the top of the page that updates automatically via Javascript with the current % completed, and a ‘time left’ projection (plus time spent so far).

http://pods.pastebin.com/SXqEW5mG

For large imports, this code may help you tweak your PHP settings to perform the migration using the resources available on your own server:

http://pods.pastebin.com/HWAX0nFL

Also, something I’ve found very useful is that I created a simple “UI” for this, in which I can just built out my $import array and choose which ones I want to run, keeping the old ones easily accessible if I need to rerun or reset them:

http://pods.pastebin.com/yYSxSZXs