Converting to Drupal

Hello,

I have yet to even download Drupal. However, I am currently searching for the perfect CMS for the re-design of a website I manage. The current site is just a forum. A forum based off the Simple Machine Forums design and I wanted to know if it was at all possible to do the following:

- Convert my user database to the new Drupal user database.
- Convert the forum data to a new Drupal driven forum.

I am wanting to use a graphical menu with Drupal.

I found Nice Menus and some documentation on using it with graphical headers but I can't get the look and feel that I want.

I figure I can have my graphic headers and then query the Drupal database myself to get the dropdowns I need.

How can I query the database directly using PHP to pull all pages from a Parent page?

Hi everyone,

I want to migrate an existing website that was coded under Adobe GoLive to Drupal 6.6. When I try to execute a page containing php code (with include commands targeting files that are outside of the drupal directory), I get the following:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function WrapMySQLDatabaseResults() in /home/www/39885474e02bb47b62c182d50ebb7449/web/Natation_Drupal/drupal-6.6/includes/common.inc(1547) : eval()'d code on line 24

I guess I need to define the WrapMySQLDatabaseResults() function, but how do I do that?

Any help would be much appreciated.

The content management page of drupal also returns this:

* warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/www/39885474e02bb47b62c182d50ebb7449/web/Natation_Drupal/drupal-6.6/includes/common.inc(1547) : eval()'d code on line 17.
* warning: include(http://www.carouge-natation.com/triathlon/config/include/utils.runtime6.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/www/39885474e02bb47b62c182d50ebb7449/web/Natation_Drupal/drupal-6.6/includes/common.inc(1547) : eval()'d code on line 17.

I am migrating an existing set of users to a Drupal 6 site. I have created SQL statements to install the users and their profile information in the Drupal database.

My problem: I need to turn the Contact flag on for all these users. I have the option set to turn the flag on by default for new users, but since these users do not come in through the usual Drupal process, their flags are not set.

I want to create a page with average/lowest/highest number in various cck fields.

Easiest way to do this is to implement php and sql queries in one single node, outputting the stats needed.

How can I let the queries go through drupal instead of having the node calling db all by itself (incl user/pass, which is obviously a high security risk)? What functions are there to use?

Situation

• Installation A: Drupal 5.1
• Installation B: Drupal 6.6 (fresh install, no content)

There is only one author in both installations: the user 1 (admin).

What I want to do

I want to import all nodes (all of the same one Content Type) of installation A into installation B. The nodes are tagged with terms of several vocabularies. I want to import these vocabularies + terms, too. And the connection of terms to nodes shall not be lost.