By ithacaindy on

I have 500+ articles in a Joomla 2.5 mysqli database. I've tried the joomla import modules, tried feeds, tried importing the csv -- all with no luck. Aside from the mind-numbing alternative of hand-entering each article, is there a bullet-proof import method?

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vandana hemnani commented

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pdjohnson commented

Hi,

you should find that http://drupal.org/project/migrate Migrate Module provides the answer to your problems. You will need to have some php knowledge to use it.

Failing that try looking at http://drupal.org/project/feeds Feeds Module.

There are several sessions from DrupalCon Denver on Migrate which you might find helpful to watch.

--Paul Johnson

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srikuba commented

Hello

I have started using Drupal since couple of days. I am working on migrating a site from Joomla to Drupal 6. I could successfully import users and nodes. But on Joomla user is related to a gallery and various other works. I am unable to work out how can I get all the work related to a user and their galleries into Drupal?

Ex:On joomla's page it is something like {gallery}FolderName{/gallery}. This page is imported exactly the same way into Drupal. But how can i configure Drupal to import pictures from 'FolderName'?

Can you please provide some help and pull me out of this please?

Thanks

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duckzland commented

Not sure if there is ready made module to do it

but if you can built a drupal module, you can use php to read filenames in a folder and use node_save to save the filename to a drupal field (cck type file with image widget)

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arthitst commented

I has same your problem for joomla gallery ({gallery}xxx{/gallery})
Can you fixed it?

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lespaul4 commented

Hi ithacaindy,

I came across your post and Im in the same boat. Have you found a solution to migrating from J1.5 to D7 yet?
It seems there is an upgrade module with versions of J1.x and J1.5 but not for J2.5 or at least not yet?? :(

Best of luck,
lespaul

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ithacaindy commented

What I eventually found to work was to create a Drupal 6 installation, use the Joomla to Drupal module built for D6. That imported the Joomla articles into the Drupal database. I then upgraded the Drupal 6 installation to the latest Drupal 7.x version. Like you, I wish there was a more straightforward way to import content from the latest version of Joomla.

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Seb_CKSource commented

Just out of curiosity, what made you switch from Joomla to Drupal?

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ithacaindy commented

Joomla has some very sexy off-the-shelf templates and is very easy-to-use if you don't wander too far out of the box. My problem was I don't operate a static site and Drupal welcomes the what-if questions. Drupal 7's user-interface is light year's advanced from the earlier days, making the "steep learning curve" no longer such a climb. At the same time, Joomla is advancing, erasing some of those sharp boundaries which can turn off users. In the end, the choice of Drupal is not a vote against Joomla. In the end, what platform you use to build a site makes zero difference to the reader, after all.

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ithacaindy commented

You should check out the Joomla to Drupal module. It works flawlessly with Joomla 1.5 sites. I was having a problem with the module not importing Joomla 2.5 articles, but that problem is gone, placing the module in my 'must have' list for migrating.