Hey there, the transition from Builder field to Kirby Blocks was smooth until Kirby v3.6. In the latest version (3.7) the automatic migration is gone, which is understandable. Unfortunately I have a Kirby website with a lot of pages that all use the Builder field and that need migration to Kirby B…

Yes, this should be possible programmatically, using the old BlockConverter class from until 3.6 as a basis. Quoting what @distantnative outlined on Discord: Thinking out loud how to approach this: take BlockConverter class and put it in a plugin in the plugin loop through all blueprints and fin…

@texnixe Thank you very much for the reply (and thanks @distantnative for the suggestions). Yes, I also was thinking that the BlockConverter class should be capable of this, but having a look at the builderBlock method made me hesitant since I couldn’t see any YAML to JSON conversion here - but I p…

I’ve never used the builder, only the editor, so not 100% positive my script also works for the builder migration, but you can give it a try! Add the following to your config.php, then (after you changed the field type to blocks in your blueprints) visit https://yoursite.com/blocks-migration …

Please do! I intend to polish it a little and then publish it as a Kirby plugin, so some feedback about whether it works for builder users would be super valuable :slight_smile:

Oh, wow - really nice! I’m trying to migrate my Kirby 3.6 site to Kirby 3.7, and also make the move from builder to blocks. When I add the code by @jonaskuske to my config.php, I get a “Cannot use object of type Closure as array” error, though – do you have any ideas on what causes this? [image] …

You’ve probably saved the Builder values as yaml so you need to replace json with yaml in the toData() methods. We’ve adopted the above script to be executed as a CLI script and also reimplemented the convert function so it also works with Kirby 3.7. But this version lacks Support for converting Ed…

Oh, that’s interesting! I tried running you CLI PHP script on my 3.6.1.1 version of Kirby, but it throws this error: Error: Call to undefined method Kirby\Toolkit\A::filter() in file /Users/fh/htdocs/fh/convert_builder.php on line 55 Do you have any ideas what causes this?

You need to upgrade to at least Kirby 3.6.5, the A::filter method was not available before: A::filter() | Kirby CMS

Hi, thanks @mactux I tried your script on 3.6.6.1 and 3.7.5 and i have this error : TypeError: convertBuilderBlock(): Argument #1 ($params) must be of type array, string given, called in path/convert_builder.php on line 56 in file /path/public/convert_builder.php on line 28 Stack trace: 1. TypeE…

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milesleif August 2, 2022, 2:01pm 5

Wow, thx a lot. I will give this a try and let you know!

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