Converting to Drupal

Hello there, I've been working on converting a phpbb site to drupal. I chose to leave the BBCode intact and to install the BBCode module to continue using BBCode in the forum.

At the very beginning, sorry for my English.

I'm working on some project, written in plain php but it's still far from being done. I'm considering switching to Drupal and I wonder whether this CMS will provide me with all features I need.

Basic concepts:

Hi,

(im brazilian, sorry for any grammar mistake)

Im migrating my site from xoops to drupal, and today ive created a script to migrate the users. This script is at the end of this post. But now id be really gratefull if someone here can help me... im migrating the forum posts (ipb forum, integrated into xoops with koudanshi's plugin) and id love to know how to *programatically* define new terms under the forum vocabulary (the terms would be related to original foruns and forum containers) and use these newly created terms to insert the posts as nodes into drupal. What i need is to know how to create the terms and how to get the ids of these terms, with some sample code if possible... i was looking the taxonomy module but im in a rush and i dont know if i can afford to spend more time to dig the info i need.

Actually, i want to do things this way (programatically creating the terms) to be able to share the script with the community... but im afraid that the time pressure will force me to do this just by hardcoding the terms.

Well, i hope somebody can help me!

That said, here is the script to migrate users from xoops to drupal. you need to export the xoops users table and import it into the drupal database, or just configure the connection where needed to connect with the xoops database (theres only one query to that database anyway).

i'm working on converting grouphug.us (running a custom codebase) to drupal. the main hangup is in handling permalinks. currently, a random number is created and used as the post id. the link to that post uses that post id. how hard would it be to keep this little bit of legacy?

I'm migrating some data and don't understand what this field is used for.

Thanks!
Doug

I recently switched my site The Daily Roxette to use Drupal. I wrote my own migration script for moving a couple of thousand news articles and almost 300,000 forum messages from an old CMS to Drupal 4.7. The news articles were moved to a custom-made flexinode content type. Forum messages were moved to built-in forum node type. Everything went smoothly, but now it seems that the search never indexes most of the migrated content. All the new content is properly indexed, but the old content isn't.