Converting to Drupal

Hey Drupal guys and gals :)

I'm working on converting my site to Drupal. The site, neverside.com, currently runs on a custom CMS (programmed by someone besides myself) and has quite a lot of content and users that I need to import into Drupal... about 21,000 users... 95,000 forum threads (nodes)... and 711,000 replies (comments). The site is currently dead/inactive, but with Drupal's magic I shall revive it! :D I'll be importing the nodes and comments as well, though trying to tackle users first.

I've investigated the User Import module, and determined it may not be usable for my needs (multi-hundred MB size of the CVS files aside, it's important that all my User IDs remain exactly the same to ensure that all the other content stays in sync with the correct users, even if some rows in my user table are missing - it looks like the User Import module will import users and create new ones in sequence, possibly changing a user's ID if there are any missing rows. I think the only way to ensure that IDs remain the same is to manually import the users via SQL.

As I'm not very proficient with programming or databases, I'm hoping someone can help me craft the correct SQL query I'll need to manually add users into Drupal's users table, and help me make sure it's done correctly.

Hi There

Im a Newbie in this Drupal. I just install Drupal and did the configurations.Its up now.But my problem is that I have a Database-driven website flat files(MySQL Quesries within them) that i want to convert to Drupal CMS.

I developed this website with XAMPP(PHP/MySQL) platforms using Dreamweaver as my development Tool. How do I take all my pages and put then is Drupal? Can somebody explain to me on how to do this? Any tutorial of this kind? Please help. I find this Drupal excting...less work for me as a developer.

Please help.
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Hi Friends,

I am working on a project which needs a migration of content(users, posts, comments, images etc etc) from an existing wordpress site database to the new drupal based site DB.

The drupal's wordpress import plugins support to import wordpress posts into any single content type (eg: blogs or stories or etc etc).
But what I need here is those wordpress posts should be imported to different CCKs based on tags.

All the CCKs with required fields are defined with perfect taxonomy matching.

How should I import the data from wordpress?

I have a site that has been running Vanilla forum for quite a while, and therefore, has a lot of important information which the users need to keep - even for legal reasons. I would like to move the entire site over to Drupal, but I cannot afford to loose all the forum postings.

The thought of having to work out the MySQL tables involved in both programs, and trying to move the information via raw SQL dumps sounds daunting, and far too time-consuming.

Has anyone ever transitioned from Vanilla to Drupal? - how did you do it? Is there a 'magic bullet'?

Hello,

I'm looking at replacing my home-made PHP/HTML/CSS website with Drupal.
That means I'm totally newbie in Drupal (and any CMS) management.
After reading and trying quite a few things, I'm not sure that I can achieve what I want...

This is my current "news" page : http://www.tumfatig.net/

What looks like what I want seem to be "Aggregator Summary" but it's not available for 6.x.

Matters are given in understanding and more informations. thanks for you.