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roxics - June 16, 2009 - 14:09

My website is located here http://www.MichiganFilm.org

I'm running Drupal on another site of mine and prefer it more. However I need to convert my site so that I have all the same features including:

1. Profiles with customs fields
2. A searchable member list - where members can search for other members based on the information in those custom profile fields
3. Profiles that contain multiple user uploaded images of themselves.
4. Member video gallery

My current site doesn't have a lot of content but I do have a couple hundred members. So if I lose the content I'm alright with that. But I want to try and keep my members and their profile information they've already filed in.

My current site is running Joomla 1.0.15 with Community Builder 1.1

What do I need to set up a drupal site the functions like my current site?
What is the best way to convert my members and their profile information?

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mradcliffe - June 17, 2009 - 17:36

To replicate functionality you can do the following:

  1. Enable the core profile module
  2. Install and enable the views module and make a user view with profile fields as fields and add exposed filters.
  3. I would create content types for images or videos and then use a multimedia/asset module. I'm not familiar with all the choices, but Embedded field looks like it's robust enough to handle both images and video in the same content type (node). You can then use the aforementioned views module to create a view like you have on your current site. And other views on user pages that list a user's media.

To convert members I have had good success personally with user_import, which imports from a CSV file. I don't know how Joomla! stores its passwords so you may have to reset user passwords. You may also want to investigate the migrate module.

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I don't know how Joomla!

design_dolphin - June 21, 2009 - 10:55

I don't know how Joomla! stores its passwords so you may have to reset user passwords.

AFAIK MD5 # and SALT encryption from 1.0.13 up until 1.5.+ I don't know what it is for 1.6 development version yet.

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