Converting to Drupal

Ok on our old site i have 50k users and I need to transpher them all to our new site. Anyoneone know of any good modules or have any advice. We are using Drupal v6

Hi!

Since I decided to develop my website to an "higher lever" - better security, stability etc.. I thought it would be a good decision to build my site upon a reliable CMS-core as Drupal.

Over to my problem; I have built my site on my own CMS based on Smarty template engine. The site is quite unique in it's structure (why I decided to make my own CMS a couple years ago). It's a product testing site, you could compare it with an e-commerce without any buying function.

My hostprovider went from being rock solid for the last two years to being completely unreliable. I'm looking to move my WordPress.org site over to a hosted Drupal Platform where I don't have to manage anything. I remember seeing an announcement on the Drupal website a month or so ago where a company is providing this service. Does anyone know the name and url for it?

Please suggest me any module module.............or do i have to integrate it with e-commerce module?
is there any particular module in which no integration is required? if there is available please suggest.

I am importing data into drupal from an old site. I wrote a script to parse an html page and insert the new nodes. The script runs correctly and I see all of the data in the DB. However, when I view nodes through drupal, some of the fields do not show.

For example, I have custom content type "Publication." A publication has title&body + url and type (both text). When I look at the content_type_publication table in phpMyAdmin, for the first node I see that field_type_value="print" and field_url_value="http://employeebenefitnews.blogspot.com/". But when I go to mysite.com/node/1, I do not see type: print
url:http://employeebenefitnews.blogspot.com/. On the page html, <div class="field field-type-text field-field-url"> is missing entirely.

If my data is in the database, why isn't it showing up on the site? I will paste my code below. Am i missing some inserts?


function insert_publication( $pub_name, $type, $time, $url ) {
global $db_conn;
if( empty( $url ) || is_null( $url ) ) {
$url = '';
}

// create node
mysql_query( "insert into node (type, title, uid, status, created, changed, comment) VALUES ('publication', '".$pub_name."', 1, 1, ".$time.", ".$time.", 2)", $db_conn );
$nid = mysql_insert_id( $db_conn );
mysql_query( "update node set vid=".$nid." where nid=".$nid, $db_conn );

// create revision

I'm wondering about moving to Drupal from a Joomla site. I've got my hand on the button for Wordpress, even though it really isn't that powerful in several ways - but it does get the job done and with style for the most part. If there is one tremendous weakness that drupal has, it's that almost all the general themes I see pale in comparison to even the average Wordpress or Joomla themes. I'm not sure why this is. Even the "good" ones seem to have lackluster efforts that are half the way there but end up just dumping content instead of displaying it elegantly.

I saw the themesnap.com site but there are many problems with those themes, still only for drupal 5 and zero support for months. Much of the themes seem not to be bug free either and it's an old version. And those themes are amongst the best I've seen! Joomla has rockettheme.com, joomlart.com, templateplazza.com, wordpress has a number of them such as gabfire.com amongst others.