By dckantor on

I have a site (created with Dreamweaver and Lasso) which I am converting to Drupal. I am copying over pages into the Drupal admin and building menus and all that is going well. What I need to do now is make use of the database from the other site (700 publications, 600+ glossary entries, 200 events) in the drupal site.

Is there a way to do this without a lot of custom coding and module building.

For example the old site has a glossary page in which one types a word (in any of 4 languages) and if the word is in the glossary the deifinition pops up. Can I use this table in my new site?

Thanks

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avadhutp’s picture

avadhutp commented

Nope. Not really. Custom coding is the way to go. It would not be that difficult for the nodes and events. You can look here for clues: http://sentimentalminions.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/php-script-for-the-mi...

juan_g’s picture

juan_g commented

Old database --> First, export to CSV or similar files --> Then, import into Drupal (using import modules)

See: Migrating to Drupal

A related thread: Is it possible to import a raw mysql database into Drupal?

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motty commented

Hi guys,
there was a same problem, thanks big for that information that you have given, it's really helped me.