Converting to Drupal

Greetings,

I'm in the process of migrating my homemade CMS to Drupal and am stumped by the password discrepancy between the two databases. The password field from my original site is generated from the generic SQL statement below:

INSERT INTO users (password) VALUES (password('$p'));

I know that a lot of people that use the Zeus web server are forced into it by their hosting companies (I personally use and love it on its own merits but that's out of place here). Drupal also has some really great styles that make clean URLs very nice and very short. But without support for mod_rewrite in Zeus, you can't use them, until now. I've converted the newest (4.6-newest) rewrite rules into a Zeus rewrite script. I've actually had this for quite a while and never got around to posting it. This faithfully translates:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

into


RULE_0_START:
# get the document root
map path into SCRATCH:DOCROOT from /
# initialize our variables
set SCRATCH:ORIG_URL = %{URL}
set SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI = %{URL}

# see if theres any queries in our URL
match URL into $ with ^(.*)\?(.*)$
if matched then
set SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI = $1
set SCRATCH:QUERY_STRING = $2
endif
RULE_0_END:

RULE_1_START:
# prepare to search for file, rewrite if its not found
set SCRATCH:REQUEST_FILENAME = %{SCRATCH:DOCROOT}
set SCRATCH:REQUEST_FILENAME . %{SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI}

# check to see if the file requested is an actual file or
# a directory with possibly an index. don't rewrite if so
look for file at %{SCRATCH:REQUEST_FILENAME}
if not exists then

What are the differances in the MySQL database between 4.6 and 4.7 that would effect a migrating script?

I am trying to convert phpBB 2.0.11 to Drupal 4.7. I've been trying to update the MySQL conversion script to drupal 4.7. It seems as the users and forum containers get converted great. The problem I'm having is with the forum topics and comments. When you view the forum container, it displays the correct number of topics and posts for each forum. Then when you click on the individual forums, all the posts are messed up. Most of them say that the topic has been moved. When I'm able to click on an individual topic, it contains posts from other topics.

Can someone please help me find the problem? The script I am currently using (not yet working, see above) is here:


#
# Written by Feodor (feodor [at] mundo.ru)
#
# Modified for drupal 4.5.2 and phpbb 2.0.11-2.0.13
# by Alexander Mikhailian
#
# This script makes an assumption that phpbb and drupal tables are kept in
# one and the same database. Phpbb tables are expected to have the prefix
# phpbb_ and drupal tables are expected to have the prefix
#
# If phpBB forum use CP1251 (or another) encoding, the tables must be converted
# into UTF8. If version of MySQL less then 4.1 "iconv" command can be used for
# convertion of exported tables into UTF8.
#
# Example:
# iconv -fcp1251 -tutf8 < phpbb2.sql > phpbb2_utf-8.sql

Hi,

I evaluated Drupal and i liked it so far. Since Drupal seems like a good CMS for community web sites, i'm planning to convert our site " www.eparadesi.com " on ASP+MS SQL to Drupal and for which i'm looking for best possible options. So far i could think of the following plan and i don't know how to decide on this. I thought i can put my questions here so that expert can suggest me best way.

Afternoon -- I have a large, popular DiscusWare 4 Pro board. I would like to migrate the content and userbase over to CivicSpace/Drupal. I've searched thoroughly on this topic, but have drawn a blank. Has anyone had painless, successful experience of this particular migration?

Regards to you all -- Case.

My name is Joel Gillespie. I have a blog on MSN Spaces at http://spaces.msn.com/members/joelblog. I want very much to move my blog to a site more conducive to commenting with our many local bloggers and blog readers, and more flexible in other ways. I got into Spaces because it was idiot proof and very easy. Anyway, I want to keep multiple photo albums and lists (I love lists). I have talked to people about Blogger, Word Press, and Type Pad, and can't seem to find anyone who thinks those platforms would do the trick.