Converting to Drupal

I'm about to convert a WordPress website to Drupal (Drupal 5.5 expected) and have been testing the "wp2drupal" module with great success. The website holds about 5.000 posts/nodes and 20.000 comments, with lots of internal links to posts.

When converting to Drupal, all the existing internal links will not work anymore and Google indexing will be lost as well (untill Google have re-indexed the website).

So, therefore I'm considering to support the following URLs after the website have been converted to Drupal:

We are in need of an accomplished MySQL developer for our in-house database that will eventually sync with our websites.
Running Windows Server 2003 onsite.

Please post your qualifications and/or examples of database work you've done.

You may email to : wb2jix (@) arrl.net

Thanks!

Hi,

after trying to get "the grip" with Drupal for about 2 weeks (used a lot of my spare time around the holidays time) I am on the edge of giving up. But before I do so I would like to ask here if there is someone willing to help me getting "really started".

What I want to do:
I am in the process of creating a foto community style website that is planned to serve "a lot" of image files. "a lot" means a number considerably above 2 Mio files. The site needs to have "lightbox", "user defined galleries", "strong categorization" (about 300-400 terms, multi language), "paid download" and some "community flicker" (like forum, chatbox, event callendar etc).
At the moment I do not care much about forum stuff etc as this is something I could create myself if I don't get "warm" with the built-in forum.

What I currently cannot do:
I have played around with CCK and the core image module. I was able to create/upload images, tag them with category-terms, even create some filtered views that somehow worked as expected.
But the current workflow of uploading images and editing information is not what I want, so I think I would either have to change the modules I used quite a lot - or start by writing my own image-content-type along with an upload/editing function.

I tried to changed our website from redaxo to drupal for more flexibility. But there is a very big problem. The Website has a simple hierarchy like /topic/article, but it is important for us that the first level is displayed "current or "active" until a child article is watched.

The system allways saves the articles with node/123, so it is not possible do get a real hierarchy. Am I wrong?
Is there a module or something like that which is able to fix this problem ?

I'm starting the process of converting a website from Mambo :-| to Drupal :-) and am currently writing a database migration script. The first table I'm populating is "users". Now I notice there is a field named "data" which contains strange-looking strings. I did a bit of web searching and it seems it's something to do with saving the user's activity history in a serialised format (I don't know what that means). So, I'm wondering is it necessary for me to populate that field at all? Can I leave it blank?

Hi I'm having problems migrating my phpbb2 forum to drupal.
The migration process worked once but there was a problem in the encoding of Arabic characters. I realised that I made a mistake in converting the encoding and after fixing the encoding problem I tried to migrate the forum again. However the migration was incomplete. The users, categories, forums and comments were migrated. The forum structure was reproduced correctly (categories and forums were ok) and users were created. However the phpbb posts were migrated as comments with the authors appearing as anonymous (with the exception of the admin which was correct). The comments were not added to the drupal forum.

During the migration process I got an error message stating that the phpbb2drupat_temp tables (user, contents, categories....) were not created. I've checked the database and the tables were not created.

I have tried
using 5.2 and 5.3dev versions of the phpbb2drupal module,
cleaning up after the migration process,
resetting the database url after each migration attempt,
disabling and uninstalling the phpbb2drupal and forums modules and retrying,
moving the phpbb tables to the drupal database,
restoring the drupal database
but always ended up with the same problem.

Has anyone come across this problem. This is so frustrating because the migration worked perfectly the first time.