PHPNuke to Drupal Help

By rpgmp3 on 3 Feb 2008 at 07:37 UTC

Hi folks,

This is my first post after getting acquainted with Drupal. I currently run a website in PHPNuke and really need to be rid of it and change to something that is well supported and easier to use and maintain. I have had a go with Drupal and set up a couple of single user sites and seem to be getting the hang of things. I have just recently started to construct the new site in Drupal to replace the PHPNuke site and I had a few questions about the best way to go about things.

I have a large number of downloads in the PHPNuke Downloads section and I was wondering if there was a module which emulated the functionality of this area. Essentially something where I can list the downloads (which are already uploaded to the net) and write something about them and possibly count the number of download (although that does not really matter as much).

I am currently playing with setting up a forum in Drupal to receive the information from the PHPBB2 forum integrated into PHPNuke. Hopefully this will go reasonably well once everything is in place.

That's about it for now. It is getting late here and my brain is fried. Just really looking for some help getting my downloads moved over in some reasonable fashion. I am still trying to get my head around the difference between Drupal and PHPNuke so I might have missed something glaringly obvious (apologies if that's the case).

Cheers
Hal

Comments

Me too

c-c-m commented 4 February 2008 at 16:39

Hello,

I am also migrating from nuke and have same questions. Some of them are solved and others are not.

As for donwloads: I asked the same in this post and got some reply. I am still waiting for another reply, but I'm sure there must be a solution, since drupal.org has a "download section" of its own. I would be happy with something like that.

There's a script to import users, news and forums (+posts) from nuke to drupal in this website: http://bogdan.org.ua/2006/09/08/php-nuke-60-to-drupal-473-migration-conv...

Hope it helps

Hey, Thanks for that. I am

rpgmp3 commented 5 February 2008 at 04:39

Hey,

Thanks for that. I am currently playing around with the Links module and it seems to be working OK for me up to this point. I have added a few files by hand and it all seems to be looking OK. I think migrating is going to be an issue for a lot of folks but I got so sick of Nuke just not doing what I wanted it to do.

I'll have a look at the import script as well as I have to take at least users and posts from the old site to the new :)

Cheers
Hal

i am new to drupal how do i

zoga commented 25 February 2008 at 18:19

i am new to drupal
how do i use the script to import the users, news and forum from phpnuke 8 to drupal 6?

you only have to download

c-c-m commented 25 February 2008 at 21:42

you only have to download the script, open it with a text editor and read the annotations and edit the required fields. Once you execute it for first time, in case you haven't edited the fields, you may have a clear explanation about how it works.

zogg thanks. will try that

zoga commented 27 February 2008 at 00:53

zogg

thanks. will try that

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sepeck commented 25 February 2008 at 18:39

I am not sure about what features a PHPNuke downloads section offers but some random different approaches for you to consider.

WebFM : I haven't used it.

Create a content type called Downloads, use Directory to organize with taxonomy/categories + Core upload module in each 'Download content type.

Do something similar with Directory module above using CCK and FileField

There are probably several more ideas but I don't deal with file downloads so that was some possible Drupal style approaches to get you started. Check the issue and support queues with those modules as well, there may be other approaches, strengths and weaknesses scattered among those threads as well.

-Steven Peck
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