Converting to Drupal

Drupalers,

I have a large number of files (in the thousands) which I need to add to Drupal. Obviously, I'm not going to do this by hand, so I am writing a script to do this. I have figured out how to create nodes for each document (node_save), but now need to figure out how to attach the files to the node. I looked over upload.module, but didn't understand it well enough to guess which function I needed to call.

Can anyone offer some ideas how I can do this?

Thanks!!!

I have an interesting problem to sort out. I have a number of websites that I'm building using Drupal. At present, I'm building each site in my "localhost" (just getting the modules customized, themed, etc.), and I will eventually be moving each to its own live server account using a HostGator Reseller account.

The problem comes with domains. Each site is going to replace an existing site with a domain, but before redirecting the DNS to the new servers (based in HostGator Reseller accounts), I need to have the Drupal sites working first.

One thought I had was to create each site under a temporary domain name, and then simply redirect the DNS's when the development was complete. The main problem I see with this is that it may be necessary to register a temporary domain if the client doesn't currently have one. The other concern with this is that when switching domains, some Drupal modules / features might break. This would be a problem for sure, especially considering we're using ecommerce modules across the board.

Another thought I had was to create new sites under subdomains of our company's website, and then redirect the DNS when the development is complete. But I've seen lots of posts showing problems with this, and furthermore, I would have the same issues noted above.

What to do? Am I going to HAVE to take the clients' existing sites down in order to get Drupal up and running, or is there a way I can develop it behind-the-scenes?

Hi,

i would like to know if there is a way that my website, made with drupal, emails me or an administrator every night all the new messages that have been posted in the forum during the day.

Thanks

Hello,

I built a small website which was like a "blog" website for people. People could create an account and they can post messages which their friends can see and also reply.

So, much like Xanga website.

Is this possible with Drupal? (after reading, it seems so~)

also what if I want to add a few features into my website? like specific to website which no particular modules can handle, can these be added without much fuss using Drupal??

thanks!

Hi ppl!!

I have a site made in Mambo 4.5.3, but, I dislike it :((( (a lot of reasons)
Now, after I found the advantages of drupal, I would like to transfer my page to it. the problem with the template is solved, by the most important problem is the database :(

is it possible to convert the existing dattabse (with a lot of informations) to a drupal version, without rewriting every news and so.

cheers, Sergiu

On my old postnuke site, I had the Static_Docs module installed so URLs of http://www.example.com/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=foo/ would display files in the foo directory. I'm migrating to Drupal 4.7 and would like to rewrite the index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f= to /files/ but I can't seem to get the syntax right in .htaccess. I also tried a permanent redirect in my apache config but it seems to be ignored.