Converting to Drupal

Back with 4.5.2 I needed a way to Bulk import users accounts AND pre-add data into the custome Profile fields. with the help of the Drupal community I came up with the following, and want to share it with all of you to see if it helps.

Below is the code I run against a CSV (Comma separated variable) file. I commented out the commits so you can use this 1st to test your import run. It checks to see if the username or email is a duplicate or not. That way you can run a PRE-Flight check for you run for real.

Hi,

I've been using PostNuke .726 for some time, but I decided to migrate to drupal soon as I got notice of it. Installation has been performed without any problem at all, as expected.

Then I searched this site for information regarding migration from xForum to Drupal, although I couldn't find any significant help. As I don't have previous experience in migrating data from one system to another, I didn't want to mess things up.

Hi all,

I'm a complete newbie to Drupal. I installed it and got it "working" (i.e. I have not yet seen any mysterious errors showing up), but before I trust my office's site to it, I would like to have a few things clarified.

My site has some 5,000 Static text files (some php included to connect to some statistics page). Many visitors keep links to one or more of these files. It is, therefore, compulsory to NOT change their location or their address. So, my first question: is it possible to display static pages within Drupal without too much hassle? I have been doing some reading on this forum, and my first impressions in this respect are a bit scary... Am I wrong? How easy is it to display these static files? By easy, I understand something like <some-command-to-open http://my.site/archive/file1234.php> .

Second question: how easy is it to categorize a file under several categories (without, of course, physically moving it)? Come to think of it: how easy is it to categorize anything at all?? I managed to get into the Drupal "taxonomy" thing, which looks promising, and I solemnly hope that this is really The Answer to anyone running a site with many different text files dealing with many different topics. How easy is it to actually link this taxonomy system to one's texts?

Third question: is it possible to have different styles apply to different contents? Is it, for instance, possible to have our series of "interviews with researchers" look different from our series of articles on "educational policy" (I work in a university, that's why).

I've hit some snags and am working my way through this but would appreciate any tips from others that might be more familiar with the workings of forums and comments in Drupal 4.5.2

I'm migrating from an oldish version of Phorum and migrated a couple of thousand user accounts across without any trouble:

http://drupal.org/node/9806#comment-30028

I've tested migrating several thousand of 25k phorum posts across but I suspect I'm missing something somewhere. Rather than hacking the tables direct, maybe there are some Drupal functions I need to RTFM about that will help me here?

All the nodes and comments are across. Blocks for forum topics and recent comments display fine and I can view the topics and comments just fine (not properly threaded yet, but they're all attached to their parents!)

But MySQL virtually hangs and takes forever to display the forums page (if at all) as an anonymous user and when I visit as uid 1 the forums page comes up quicker but displays a negative number of new nodes???

It's Almost Working For Me (TM)

;-)


// foreach phorum post {
// check to see if author has a drupal.uid
$result=db_query("SELECT uid FROM {users} WHERE (mail='%s' OR name='%s')",$ph_email,$ph_author);
$uid=db_result($result);

// no uid found, assign anonymous drupal.uid
if ($uid='') {
$uid=0;
}

// replace newlines in body
$ph_body=ereg_replace("\n","

Hi folks,

I am preparing to migrate my site from an old (v5.2) and heavily hacked version to phpNuke to Drupal 4.5.0.

I have a lot of content to move over: news items, several article sections with many articles in each, reviews and a large userbase.

I am very new to Drupal and I was hoping that a few of you more experienced users and admins might advise me on which modules I should install and how I might set things up in Drupal to more easily and seamlessly make use of Drupal as I had previously used phpNuke.

I'm attempting to migrate my blog from Typepad to Drupal. I've exported the posts & comments from the Typepad blog into a text file. Does anyone have any suggestions for importing them into Drupal? I've searched, but haven't found anything helpful thus far.