By gautamb on

Hi Everyone..this is my first post. I'm very new to drupal and have been a long time Joomla user. Started to notice many sites were using drupal and after looking into it I loved the amount of add on modules available. My goal in the next few months is to be able to write my own modules for drupal(hopefully its not too difficult).

My issue right now is that I have been using joomla for over 10 years and want to move to drupal. I'm happy alot of the modules I paid for in joomla(that seem to be poorly supported) are available for free on drupal(as far as I can tell do have quite a few maintainers for those packages), but I need a way to bring my data from joomla to drupal?

I found some applications but most of them are for drupal6...I found migrate but am wondering if anyone knew how to use it? It might not exist but what I'm hoping is for a tool to bring in my content and menu structures(my site had layers and lawyers of menus depending on the content)? Is there anything that will do it?

Another question I had was if Drupal has any type of bridge between django and itself? I have alot of apps I created in python and I want to start to develop web frontends for them.I'd rather just focus on my app and leave the other stuff to drupal but I'm not sure if its possible or not.

Thank you in advance,

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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souldessin’s picture

souldessin commented

I need to find a good way to migrate a Joomla site to Drupal 7 as well. I am helping to maintain a website for my church and can not stand it any more. I would be quite happy with just getting the articles transfered but if any one happens to have any tricks up their sleeves for getting other content like galleries transfered I would be very grateful.

justingeeslin’s picture

justingeeslin commented

The only way I know of to move from one CMS to another is to import your content via CSV. There are some terrific Drupal modules for importing and exporting.

You can import your tags.
I'm not sure about menus. I *think* it may be possible.

justingeeslin’s picture

justingeeslin commented

You might consider these modules.

Node import is terrific. | http://drupal.org/project/node_import
Menu Import sounds like what you need for importing menus. | http://drupal.org/project/menu_import

haripotter12’s picture

haripotter12 commented

purchased Droomla, can't wait to use it, but i'm having lots issues with page errors after the install.

Is Droomla compatible with Drupal 7 on a Joomla 1.5.x site?

ParisLiakos’s picture

ParisLiakos commented

Just released a drupal 7 alpha version for the joomla module...
http://drupal.org/project/joomla
i believe it will help you

jfambrini’s picture

jfambrini commented

Thanks for the tip on this great utility. I'm trying to move data from my joomla site to the new Drupal site I'm trying to create. I was at first trying to copy data from an existing site but it did not allow me to and gave me an error. I therefore duplicated my site on the same site where Drupal was installed under a Joomla directory. This took me two days to set up joomla and move all the data but it is still not working. Is there a way to allow us to browse to a particular directory or website address? What am I doing wrong? I suspect "Path of Joomla Installation" is the key but typing in just "/joomla" is not doing the trick. Is there a portion of some forum where I might be able to discuss this utility and get help.

ParisLiakos’s picture

ParisLiakos commented

the "Path of Joomla Installation" should be the filesystem path, not a relative path.

so you need to ask you host to give you the full path for your drupal installation and then just add /joomal to that.

it will be something like that

/home/YOUR_USERNAME/public_html/YOUR_DRUPAL_FOLDER

if you are on a linux server.
so the joomla path will be like this

/home/YOUR_USERNAME/public_html/YOUR_DRUPAL_FOLDER/joomla

Also what was the error it gave you?

jfambrini’s picture

jfambrini commented

Thanks for the quick response and thanks for the advices.

I have obtained the absolute address by using a PHP file but still getting an error. The curious though is that titles of 2 articles are now showing in content but not the text of the articles. This means that I now have access to the database.

Here it is:

•Notice: Undefined variable: term in joomla_import_categories() (line 695 of /home/content/--sites/all/modules/joomla/joomla.module).
•Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in joomla_import_content() (line 760 of /home/content/--sites/all/modules/joomla/joomla.module).
•PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'son1122312390384.jos_myblog_content_categories' doesn't exist: SELECT mcc.category,mc.name FROM jos_myblog_content_categories mcc JOIN jos_myblog_categories mc on mc.id = mcc.category WHERE mcc.contentid = :contentid; Array ( [:contentid] => 2 ) in joomla_myblog_process_node() (line 176 of /home/content/---/sites/all/modules/

The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later. .

ParisLiakos’s picture

ParisLiakos commented

ok, i see you use myblog submodule.
i am sorry for this error, but the myblog submodule is not tested at all.
i just ported from 6.x version and i didnt have a chance to test it since i didnt have a database dump available

Could you please provide me your database dump?
at least the tables that contain the myblog data.
If you do i will have it up and running within two days.

Also if you have jcomments as well i could port them too to drupal.
It is just that i dont have database dumps to make these happen :(

jfambrini’s picture

jfambrini commented

Dear Paris:
Thanks for getting back to me. I have no idea what myblog is as I have zero experience with Drupal. I don't have blogging functionality in my Joomla site so it is not needed. Most of my sites are in Joomla so this is just a test run to get a feel for Drupal. Is there a way for me not to use myblog and still get my data in?
Thanks,
Regards,
John

jfambrini’s picture

jfambrini commented

Dear Paris:
Thanks for the tip. I disabled myBlog and data came through. Menus did not come through. Check the site: http://www.sonimotors.info. Thanks for all your help. I have to now figure out how to add menus and categories within Drupal.
Regards,
John

ParisLiakos’s picture

ParisLiakos commented

heh nice.yeah you had myblog sub-module enabled and it was searching to find the myblog table and couldnt, naturally,
since you didnt have this table :P

glad it works

Unfortunately there is no automated way to import menus yet

jfambrini’s picture

jfambrini commented

Dear Paris:
Thanks a million. I could not have done it without your direction. I look forward to learning more of this very powerful CMS.
Regards,
John

ParisLiakos’s picture

ParisLiakos commented

No problem :)
Drupal community is awesome,anytime you need something just ask