By ali.sharif on

Hi to all
My current Drupal website developed by dr5 and i want to move all contents from drupal 5 to drupal 6 without upgrading DR5 to DR6.
i tried some ways, but they didn't work properly.
what's the best solution for doing this ?
any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance

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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
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Migrating data is never an easy process. Getting it all is even harder. You can look at the node export module (http://drupal.org/project/node_export) for moving content, or the import/export api (http://drupal.org/project/importexportapi) for moving everything. For users you can try using the User Import module (http://drupal.org/project/user_import), though you would have to export your users list using a .csv file first.

In the end, it will probably be much easier just to upgrade your D5 installation to D6.

Contact me to contract me for D7 -> D10/11 migrations.

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ali.sharif commented

Thanks jay
I've done it already, but my data that imported to the new website uses Unicode and data shows like this:
�t�h�a�t� �y�o�u� �a�r�e� �c�a�
is there any solution for solving this problem ?

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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

Drupal runs on unicode - so it shouldn't be a problem.

1) Is your database in UTF8?
2) Are your documents saved in UTF-8?
3) Is your theme putting out a charset in the header that is not UTF-8?

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ali.sharif commented

yes,all of the them are utf8

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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

Check your php.ini settings then. You may have set something wrong in there.

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ali.sharif commented

thanks , i'll try to do it

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hernangarcia commented

Thanks in advance!

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alexpavlovic commented

We have developed a custom data migration solution in perl that works directly with Drupal database schema. We can move custom content types, comments, nodewords data, users, nodes and so on from D5 to D6 system. This is a commercial ( paid ) solution though and we have to tune it to match exact client needs, please let me know if you are interested and I will send you more information. Thanks.