By Anon-dupe on

Just wondered if someone familiar with Drupal could answer a few questions. I currently use pMachine (90% happily) but want to consider Drupal because going forward I need multiple taxonomies that have multi-levels.

1. Is there a script to convert pM MySQL database to Drupal db? How difficult would it be to write a script to move at least the entries, not the categories?

2. Does Drupal allow one to publish at a future date/time? (So a visitor after that time sees the content but not before.)

Thanks for any assistance!

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Anon-dupe commented

I also wondered if Drupal has the pM ability to create a page with a human readable name (e.g., fred.php) which calls a specific page or set of content with a functional call? Or do all Drupal links have the extended machine readable URLs (e.g., durpal.org/node.php?id=1)?

Thanks!

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ax commented

1. Is there a script to convert pM MySQL database to Drupal db? How difficult
would it be to write a script to move at least the entries, not the
categories?

no script. yet. it is, however, generally quite easy to write one. have a look at Migrating from other weblog software to Drupal for conversion scripts from some other systems. if you should write one for pMachine, please contribute!

2. Does Drupal allow one to publish at a future date/time?
(So a visitor after that time sees the content but not before.)

this used to work out of the box in 3.x (if i remember correctly); it doesn't in 4.x. there is a contributed module, however, hat does exactly that. it's called "scheduler"; you can browse code + doc here and download the package from the download page.

3. I also wondered if Drupal has the pM ability to create a page with a human
readable name (e.g., fred.php) which calls a specific page or set of content
with a functional call? Or do all Drupal links have the extended machine
readable URLs (e.g., durpal.org/node.php?id=1)?

starting with 4.2 drupal has "clean urls" which are inherently quite human readable (just check the urls of drupal.org). for arbitrary names, there is another contributed module called "path" (here and at the download page) that allows to assign arbitray urls to arbitrary content.

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Anon-dupe commented

Thanks, Ax, for your answers! With URLs no less. Appreciate the help.

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cre8d commented

I'm in the process of converting a site from pMachine to Drupal. If anyone is interested in how I'm doing it, let me know.

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kvarnelis commented

Ok, so how do we do it? cre8d is not accepting emails says your account profile...

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kvarnelis commented

still looking... anyone????

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cre8d commented

Sorry about that - I didn't realise it was disabled and only saw your message today.

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bebop1065 commented

It would really help a Drupal neophyte out quite a bit.

Thanks, for your response and details.

SPN

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spudart commented

I'm looking to convert my site on pmachine over to drupal, and I would greatly appreciate any tips or help. I plan on writing a script, but anything that is already started would be great.