By Corne-24 on

Hi,
Is it likely that a Drupal 5.x to 8.x upgrade will require major changes or even a major restructuring of an existing website, or is there an upgrade tool which will make the 5.x to 8.x transition relatively easy?

I've found some 6.x and 7.x to 8.x information, but no experiences starting from 5.x

I understand that this is a rather general question, but thanks for experience remarks & advice related to a 5.x to 8.x upgrade (I'm new to Drupal).

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x, Drupal 8.x

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pixelsweatshop’s picture

pixelsweatshop commented

You are not going to find any info out there going from 5 to 8. Rebuild your site in 8. Get your content out of the old one into something like a csv file and import using the migrate csv module. Drupal 5 is over 10 years old and the architecture has changed way too much to support it.

Corne-24’s picture

Corne-24 commented

Thanks for the reply! This "rebuild" process, is that close to

(1) a sort of export in Drupal 5.x and import in 8.x, that is, a sort of "reload" of the 5.x data in Drupal 8.x,

or is it closer to

(2) an export of the 5.x data and a re-design / re-implementation (rebuild?) of the website in Drupal 8.x only using the exported 5.x data, because of 5.x vs 8.x incompatibilities?

It sounds like the rebuild process you mentioned is more or less the above-mentioned (1), right?

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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

It's more like

1) Rebuild a site with similar functionality to what you have in D5
2) Migrate the data from D5 site to D8 site

Note that this will require transforming the data to some degree. It's not an easy job. You're going to want someone with experience in migrating data into Drupal to look at this. If the data isn't that important, you may just want to start from scratch in D8.

Contact me to contract me for D7 -> D10/11 migrations.

Corne-24’s picture

Corne-24 commented

Jaypan wrote:
"You're going to want someone with experience in migrating data into Drupal to look at this."

I agree, thank you for your explanation and advice.

pixelsweatshop’s picture

pixelsweatshop commented

Sorry I don't see any difference in your two points.

It's a complete build in Drupal 8 and just import content.

Corne-24’s picture

Corne-24 commented

OK, I understand that it's what I meant with (2), not (1) as I assumed in a previous post ;-) Again, thanks a lot for the feedback.