By ernlilley on

My client's on Wild Apricot...but they/we agree that a Drupal site will be good for them...but what can we salvage from their current site?

Having gotten turned on to Drupal at Drupalcon2009, I'm not building a site for someone who's group is currently hosted on Wild Apricot, but wants more control over their site. I'm happy to work away at getting all the necessary modules up and running, but I'm concerned about transfering information, especially user profiles and passwords, over from there.

Does anyone have any insights, places to go for information, or experience with this?

Ernest

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mradcliffe
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There is a category set aside on drupal.org for import/export modules.

Specifically I have had good luck importing users with User Import, which imports users from a CSV file (passwords in plain text only). Passwords are stored as a MD5 hash in the users table in Drupal. If you already have passwords in that format it's a bit more difficult to import. However there is probably re-usable code in Wordpress Import.

Node Import can also import users, but I am not familiar with what sort of password importing it does myself.

There is also an up-and-coming module called Migrate (demo'd at DC2009). This will work well if you don't have any advanced multi-table import to do (such as Wordpress -> Drupal via categorization). It can take any mysql table that you import into the drupal database, and expose views to them. Then via those views you can map drupal fields to import content, users, etc...

N.B.: http://www.wildapricot.com/tags/export/default.aspx

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ernlilley commented

That should get me started. Many thanks.

Ern

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thinkling commented

Can you tell us a little about how your project went?

Did you manage to transfer user info from Wild Apricot to Drupal?

Did you consider keeping the WA service for taking donations & membership fees, and integrating it with a Drupal site hosting other content?

Thanks much!