Converting to Drupal

I'm in the process of wrapping a large database application in Drupal. I don't want to rebuild the whole thing with custom content types or CCK because of the number of primary/secondary key relations in the database, but I do want to limit the users who can add content using Drupal's permissions. I've created a custom content type called "Custom Forms" and copied the PHP and HTML for the form into a node of that type.

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Hi, I am new to drupal. I am familiar with Mambo/Joomla, but I am very interested in drupal. Currently I want to convert some sites from Mambo/Joomla to Drupal, but have some problems. The main problem is that I am trying to insert various images into a single story/page. For instance, in Mambo/Joomla, I had to upload the images into the media folders, and then with a {mozimage} tag, I could include as many images as I liked into a single story. So far, I have only been able to upload 1 image per story, how do I upload multiple images per story??? Please help.

I would like to know whether it is possible to convert from Zeroboard (Korea's most popluar board) based website to Drupal.

I am particularly interested in the way Drupal is encrypting the password before storing it into MySQL. Zeroboard is using password() function in MySQL but what does Drupal use?

i have a local parenting resource website that i would like to package as a sort of website-in-a-box to sell to others in other areas so they can set up a similar site for their area. the site is currently edited using frontpage 2003 but i was thinking that it would be much easier if i made the website-in-a-box version on a CMS so that people don't have to have frontpage (expensive) and can edit it from any web browser.

through some research, i happened upon drupal (i am just going with the CMS in fantastico in my cpanel of my host) and so far i really like how user friendly it seems. i have had some experience with mambo, but i decided i liked drupal a little better...can't remember why now (its been awhile since i was actually researching things), but i digress, lol!

anyway...what i have in mind is a framework site...with some content that i either get permission from the authors to include or just include my own articles...and set up the pages like the local links page and the local kids classes, local parks, etc etc...i have over 160 pages on my site, much of which is local, but a lot of nonlocal parenting related info as well...so i will have to go through and decide what i would include for a boxed site...but my question here is would drupal work well for this purpose?

and if so....how hard is it going to be to get the theme set up so it at least somewhat resembles the original site? i don't care if its exactly like the original...i actually would like the copies to not be identicle to my original anyway....i have a web designer friend that is going to put together some graphics that are a little differently colored and such to make them not look exactly like my original...

I am struggeling converting my old PHPBB forum to drupal using the HEAD version of phpbb2drupal.

Converting users and topics runs fine, but when trying to convert the posts (there is a large number of posts) my page goes blank after just 7 seconds. When trying backspace and run again, it reports that a large number is already imported but on susequent attempts to import posts it still times out. Apparently not all posts are imported when I check the forum afterwards. Any clues anyone?

/Sten

Hi,

I inherited a data structure from a site we are trying to convert into Drupal. The site is for a music artist and has the following four tables relating to one another:

Shows
songs
venues
show-songs matching table.

Relationships:
- Each show entry has a venue id.
- so it's possible to list venue info per show, and shows per venue.
- The show-songs matching table helps a show instance display all the songs (set list) for that particular show.

I'm having a total brain freeze on how to best implement this in Drupal. Currently, I have shows/songs/venues each as their own content type via CCK (replicating the fields, and imported the data in via nodeimport module.) I preserved the show-songs matching table and have hacked the node template to check the content type and if a "show" type make a query to the show-song table to pull songs for that show. I'm also doing something similar with venue, to display all shows at any particular venue.

All works so far, albeit kludgy, but now, I want to create some form of include/persistant form/search area to allow the user to search/browse by venue name and year (via drop down boxes), which I'm at a total loss to do (use the views module somehow, just can't figure out how.)

In any case, I'm thinking that I'm going about this totally wrong and there has to be a better way to utilize other modules with CCK and Views to integrate and display this data better. I've been researching other modules that do various node relationship stuff, but haven't found anything satisfactory.