By ringo_shells on

Hi All,

I'm currently trying to convert my pre-existing Joomla-based website (http://www.somethingfm.net/) over to a Drupal-based one. I was wondering if anyone else out there had done this, or if it was even possible (without doing a lot of content copy-pasting).

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WebWeasel’s picture

WebWeasel commented

I just finished converting an old Mambo site to Drupal which is mostly the same. The only content we had was stories, pages and links (to put it in Drupal terms). I used the node_import and user_import modules to get the data imported from mos_content, mos_weblinks and mos_users. I just used phpMyAdmin to dump the data as a CSV formatted file and it was pretty easy. If you want to keep the categories you can export the results of a phpMyAdmin query that joins the mos_* to mos_categories and you'll keep your category info.

It's really not all that hard. Your mileage may vary.

slinky’s picture

slinky commented

If I was even considering moving from Joomla, while helpful, your instructions still seem a tad incomplete. There would seem to be a larger undertaking such as retaining the sections and categories and other such variables. I don't see very many people switching to drupal from joomla/mambo here.

trumpcar’s picture

trumpcar commented

Here's a working example of converting Joomla users to Drupal 5.x.

http://drupal.org/node/214022