Existing Site -- Drupal HELP!

Posted by adamstorr on July 6, 2009 at 9:51pm

Hi everyone,

I want to use Drupal to manage all of the content on my existing site (www.adamstorr.com) which is completely dynamic and written in PHP.

Do I have to recreate my pages or can I just connect Drupal to my existing MySQL database and have all of my current posts show up in the Admin panel?

Thanks for all of the help!

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You will need to recreate the

Posted by CompuBase on July 6, 2009 at 10:06pm

You will need to recreate the content.
Nice site BTW!

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Bummer.... thanks though!

Posted by adamstorr on July 6, 2009 at 10:07pm

Bummer.... thanks though!

There might be ways to import

Posted by marcvangend on July 6, 2009 at 10:38pm

There might be ways to import your content; have a look at the Migrate module (http://drupal.org/project/migrate, imports data from mysql tables - very promising, but still under development) or at Node Import (http://drupal.org/project/node_import, imports data from a csv file).

> Do I have to recreate my

Posted by hershel on July 7, 2009 at 8:48am

> Do I have to recreate my pages or can I just connect Drupal to my existing MySQL database and have all of my current posts show up in the Admin panel?

You could actually connect to your existing database via custom code and get the posts from there, but I certainly wouldn't recommend that.

Another option is to output your site as HTML pages (there are tools which will "download" your site as HTML files such as the first two results in Google when you search on "download website") and then import those pages using http://drupal.org/project/import_html

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Posted by WorldFallz on July 7, 2009 at 2:11pm

And another option, if you can present your content as a feed, would be to use the http://drupal.org/project/feedapi and http://www.drupal.org/project/feedapi_mapper modules to import your content as nodes via a feed.

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Very nice looking site! After

Posted by caschbre on July 16, 2009 at 4:11pm

Very nice looking site!

After browsing through it I didn't see that much content that would warrant spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to import it. Once you setup your new drupal site, it may be just as fast to copy/paste your content instead of importing it.

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