Converting to Drupal

Hi!

I move from Data Beckers "Community Now" to Drupal and I started to import the Forum. As much Drupal ist flexible the Database looks confusing.

Is there any graphical structure made?
What are vid and tid exactly?

The vid´s in term_data are all 1 all other nid´s in other tables count parallel to the nid´s. (Is this my mistake?). Thats the result by using the xoops to Drupal tutorial as similar template for my requirements.

The phpbb module is designed to integrate Drupal with an newly installed PHPBB forum.

I have been working for three days to get it to integrate with an existing PHPBB forum.

You just have to extract the account information from the existing PHPBB forum accounts and add those users to Drupal before enabling the integration module.

I did this through manual PHPMyAdmin operations and some hastily written php.

I am wondering whether there is sufficient interest to justify the creating of a simple module that imports user accounts from a PHPBB forums.

Hi,

I'm still discovering Drupal, I mean, I'm fighting to understand the "nice" ways to use it.

Let's suppose I have a custom node type built with CCK :
- title
- body
- text field 1
- text field 2

When I display the node, I have all the fields one after another, such as :
title content
body content
field1
field2

1) displaying a node

Suppose my text field 1 is a link title and text field 2 is the URL. Can I display <a href="textfield1">textfield2</a> with Views ? If yes how ? Or is Views not applicable to one single node and more applicable for "lists" (or tables, whatever) of nodes ?

I know there's a the link module and others that let me do this but it's for my general comprehension, this is a simple example to explain but I have to do more complex things.

For the moment I've chosen this solution :
- I created a node-mynodetype.tpl.php in my theme folder
- in this file I don't print $content
- instead I extract "manually" all the CCK fields and do what I want with them

Example :

$text = $node->field_text;
$text0 = $text[0];
$titlelink = $text0[value];
$text1 = $text[1];
$urllink = $text1[value];
print '<a href="'.$urllink.'">'.$titlelink.'</a>';

I have the feeling it's a "dirty" solution because of the dependency on the theme file.

Hi :)

I'm running a multi-user Serendipity (s9y) Installation and would like to convert everything to drupal.
It would not be a problem to put all the serendipity stuff into one drupal-User since I want to mark
all that stuff as "Archive" anyways.
Did anyone do this before? Any ideas of how to do this?

I run www.deafcatholic.org

I want people to be able to leave video comments in ASL.

Is drupal the best way to go?

Sincerely,

Jeremy St. Martin

Hello,

we are an Austrian literature club and migrated our website to Drupal: http://www.earth-rocks.at

I inserted about 2,500 comments into the database which are shown correctly, BUT it is impossible to post new comments.

The error log says, there would be a double entry at (some address) so the comment can not be posted.

There is probably a note (somewhere) that says, what the next comment-id should be.

All hints are appreciated!

Fritz