By phil. on

Hello everyone,

i am running a very large website on typo3 Version 7.6 LTS.
It has 3 translations (EN,DE, FR) and hierarchically structured content consisting of "text + Image fields" and some simple "image fields".
Does anyone have experience migrating typo3 content to drupal? The best case would be if the page tree with all its content was copied into drupal...
But i am not sure where to start. Should i create my own extension to create NODES for each content row in the typo3 database?

I have both installations running on a local environment and can access both databases... :)

Thanks.

Philipp

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onejam commented

This is an old module: https://www.drupal.org/project/typo3_migrate you might want to check in their issue queue if any work will be done for a D8 version: https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/typo3_migrate?status=All&categorie...

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Michael-IDA commented

> But i am not sure where to start.

First build an empty Drupal site that has all the functionality you need/want. This assures you that all the features of the version of Drupal [1] you're interested in actually work.

Then use/fix the TYPO3_migrate module, manually migrate the data yourself, or hire someone to migrate the data for you. Depending on how much you value your time using/fixing the TYPO3_migrate module is probably the most expensive. Manual migration assures that everything like 'page trees' get converted correctly.

See:

Example, basic user migration into empty new system, keeping existing UID from old system.
https://drupal.org/node/1309546#comment-5592122

Drupal Data Migration
http://inet-design.com/drupal-data-migration.html

Best,
Michael

[1] Drupal 8 is probably still too young for large, feature rich sites.

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onejam commented

I would assume you will have to built a fresh drupal site to match the structure of your TYPO site. This means adding the fields you need such as content type, image fields and etc so you can map the content to these content types, fields, taxonomy and etc.

Yes, perhaps it's makes more sense to migrate to Drupal 7 so you can take advantage of that module. Drupal 7 will still be supported for another few years to come so you will have all that time to move over to drupal 8 later.

But then migrating from Drupal 7 to drupal 8 is not a simple process. Drupal 8 is almost a complete rewrite of 7 to incorporate other open source frameworks and OOP.

I'm wondering if it would be possible to use feeds: https://www.drupal.org/project/feeds to import your conent? However, not quite sure how you will handle users?

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phil. commented

Thanks for your fast replies. The site itself doesn't have much features, it's a large documentation with user login, multi language and a search.
The most important part is the structured content which consists of rich text fields and image fields.

The most important part for me is the content, everything else i have no problem recreating :-). But i guess the best solution for me would be to migrate into an empty system with some basic templates and configuration...

Thanks again everyone!

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notknow commented

Hey phil.
I am not involved in completing the same task. I just recently really became curious about Drupal but i'm a bit into Typo3 for some time now.
Did it work? Could you (did you have to) make use of the import module? This or that, really curious, all the best,
Frank

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phil. commented

Hey notknow,

i figured it was easier and better documented to fix typo3 and ended up migrating my installation from 4.5 to 7.6. We also switched the hoster and are quite happy now - aside from a few extensions that broke and had to be fixed...the processes was quite smooth.

Sorry that i cant really help you, or whoever is involved in the migration process...

Best of luck
Philipp