By jonahruh on

We just had a website created for us by a small media design company, small being the operative word. They did an OK job with the site until they were paid. Now their are alot of bugs and things i'd like to edit which would fall into our prepaid annual maintenance agreement which needless to say have become low priority for them and are not getting done. I also see that it could quickly become cramped and not dynamic enough to stay alive. I want to see if our website would work if we transferred it over to drupal. The website lists all food pantries and soup kitchens in our region on a google map. It has a page clients can search by town to find meals. It is entirely dependant on a database which feeds the pages of the site. The food organizations listed all have access to their profile in the database which then populates the pages. Check it out www.essexcountyhungerrelief.org. What do you think? Comments extremely welcome.

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nevets commented

Yes, that is something that could be done with Drupal. Using the Content Construction Kit (CCK) to make content types and views to list data it would be fairly straightforward.

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jonahruh commented

Thanks!

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uniyolu.com commented

Definitely yes. But it could be necessary to keep some of your html/php codes. (to protect the functionality of your web site)
you can contact me from this msn adress : uniyolu@hotmail.com

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jtrost commented

I am currently migrating my custom database website to Drupal. It was a bit difficult to start, but once I got a pattern down of migrating the content, it became quite easy. Here's a summary of how I do it:

1) Create custom content type with CCK for a section I want to migrate
2) Write SQL inserts for that content type and run them. Since I have a lot of data, I use PHP to grab the data from my database, and then generate the CCK SQL insert automatically. This saves me A LOT of time from manually inserting them.
3) Write SQL insert for node_revisions table. This is very simple and straightforward.
4) Write SQL insert for node table. Also very simple and straightforward.

Here's a resource I started off using: http://highervisibilitywebsites.com/import-raw-content-nodes-users-drupal However, I find his method of using a spreadsheet to be too inefficient. I opt to automate the insert statements with PHP.

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jonahruh commented

Definately a job for someone who knows what they are doing. I appreciate your response. I will find someone to help me!