I'm thinking about merging an existing slashcode stories table into an existing gforum posts table. I'd like to dump the entire archive (only a 100 stories or so) into a single forum - no users, or sub-posts - just single top-level posts.

The table is similar, but completely different than the posts database. I've reviewed some of the import scripts, but I'm a little lost.

Can I just rename / add / drop fields in my older stories table to resemble the posts table then import - presuming the fields are equal?

Any tips on converting 2001-11-28 12:45:42 time to a unix format?

Any other tips / thoughts in general?



Thanks!

-j