I know that there are articles out their explaining what needs to be done... I have seen the one located http://drupal.org/node/80195 and it is just making me dizzy. I have thousands of content items in Mambo and I'm in desperate need to either Hack a now defunct CMS into doing what I need it to do or move to Drupal6 which claims to do it already.
I am desperate and in need of guidance.
1) would it be easier to migrate into drupal 5 then upgrade to drupal 6?
2) How do I go about performing the migration? is it in the back-end or on the database level?
3) Am I supposed to take the tables in my database and fit it into the drupal tables?
I have thousands of questions racing through my head, but I figure these would shed some light.
I am truly hoping that Drupal will be the key to solving my issues with Mambo... but I really need to be pointed in the right dirrection.
Thank you.
PK
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1. If you have a manageable
1. If you have a manageable number of content types, you can use Node Import along with a custom CCK content type to migrate thousands of structured records from any MySQL database to Drupal. There is no reason to use Drupal 5 anymore. Drupal 6 has the stuff you need (speaking for myself really).
2. As I said, you can migrate from "within the browser" using the Node Import module. You should only need to work at the database level if you're comfortable doing so.
3. Node Import works best with CSV files, so you might need to export your existing tables using PHPMyAdmin or something first, then import into Drupal.