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Asked: 2026-05-18T10:39:51+00:00

I’m trying to migrate all content pages on a website to DNN5 Pro. So

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I’m trying to migrate all “content” pages on a website to DNN5 Pro.

So I just created all the pages in DNN, added HTML module to the ContentPane and copied and pasted the HTML content from old pages.

The problem is that most of the pages have bits of classic asp code which do some minor server-side tasks – for example, populate tables with prices fetched from DB, pre-select user’s country based on his IP address, do some basic dates calculations, etc.

Obviously, this code won’t work in DNN.

If I had to migrate to PHP, I’d just rewrite these bits of code from classic ASP to PHP, then assign values from PHP to smarty and then would use them in templates.

But as DNN has a completely different architecture, I can’t see how similar approach can be used.

Token replacement feature in HTML module looks like what I need, but it allows to “map” only tokens provided by DNN.

So, maybe anyone had similar issue with DNN and/or knows how this should be done.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could write code directly in your skin file. Do some logic like:

    <%If PortalSettings.ActiveTab.TabID = 33 Then

//code here of what you want

End If%>

    Where 33 is the page id for the page you want to run custom code on. There are other ways to do this like creating skin objects, or creating custom modules, but this is probably the easiest thing to do. Just write code directly in you skin. Or make a copy of your skin for each page you need to do custom code for… again, more elegant ways but this will get’er done.

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