Converting to Drupal

I'm in the process of moving across an old, custom-built discussion forum into Drupal (4.7), and have successfully imported the user profiles from the old database into Drupal's mysql user table.

Now, the problem I have is that the passwords are in plain text, and I can see from browsing around the forums here that the passwords are stored in the database after having gone through some sort of md5 hash encryption (apologies for incorrect use of terminology here, I am very much a novice in this particular area).

Does Drupal database design suck?

See:
http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/the-drupal-database-design-is-a-comedy-of-errors

Hi all,

I think this may be a difficult task. My site is setafocus.com, it's been ditched for a while coz of the uncontrollable amount of spam, but I really want to re-launch the site. Anyway, the site uses phpbb as a backbone/cms that time. Not a lot of heavy mods on the board. I want to convert the whole thing into drupal. The problem is the phpbb board has some articles, some reviews, etc etc. I want the articles to be nodes and the forum posts as forum posts.

Any suggestions?

Thanks very much.

I want to migrate from Mediawiki. There are many forum posts on integrating both, but I want to migrate fully to Drupal.

Can anybody help me with how? All I want to transfer are the articles themselves - I do not want the Talk pages or users or anything.

I would much prefer to transfer the articles into the Book section of Drupal - would this be easy?

Hi

I want to know how to put all my content from my mambo site into my drupal site. I've searched and found out how to do themes and users, neither of which apply to me.

Can anyone help?

OK I imported 500+ users from a different CMS and evreything went fine except one thing.
I tried to upgrade all the users from anonymous to authenticated via MySQL using UPDATE `users_roles` SET `rid` = 1 WHERE `rid` = 0; and it says 0 rows affected. Am I missing something?

Any help is greatly appreciated.