By yngens on

I have a Drupal website with integrated through Gallery module Menalto Gallery2. In light of the fact that almost all the features offered by Menalto Gallery now can be achieved by properly configuring views, imagecache and either image or imagefield module, I would like to migrate all of the pictures on my site (which are in user albums) together with the comments from Gallery2 to Drupal.

For anyone who studies first the following threads #803052: Converting from Gallery to Drupal and CCK and http://gallery.menalto.com/node/85365 and comes up with functional migration script I am ready to pay $100. The migration script will be contributed back to the Drupal community.

Edit: Thanks to roginald's willing to contribute, the bounty amount increases up to $200.

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roginald commented

I'm good for $100 as well. Let me know if this happens. My use case would be for an existing site, so I would not be able to use a migration that assumed a clean Drupal install on the other end.

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yngens commented

According to one of its developers Mike Ryan (http://drupal.org/node/966220#comment-3694290) the Migrate module does not necessarily assume a clean Drupal installation:

...a node from an external site, the corresponding node created on the main site will have a new nid - there is no conflict with pre-existing content on the main site...

My use case also is for existing site.

roginald, thanks for willing to contribute. I have edited the title of the page accordingly.

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yngens commented

Hey Roginald,

Your contact form is not enabled, so writing here.

Taking into account the total of our announced bounty, a talented Drupal developer had been working on this and today I can say successfully accomplished migration of two big database of images from AcidFree and Gallery2 into single Drupal installation preserving all the pre-existing uids and comments. All the magic work was done by tamerzg. Please, contact either me or directly Tamer to provide him your website data and he can help you.

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majortom commented

I am interested in migrating a few sites I have that all currently use Gallery2. Did you ever get a migration script? Did you contribute it to the community? Did you ever post documentation explaining how to use it? Thanks in advance. :-)

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1kenthomas commented

Is this completed?

Note: one of my goals for the new Support system is the ability to "close" requests such as this. It might also be useful to be able to separate/sort out feature requests such as this, from project and other larger requests.

Thanks.

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majortom commented

I am still really eager to find a solution, but I have not heard from any of those involved.

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roginald commented

this is completed for me in as far as i was able to obtain a customized script to suit my purposes. not sure if that helps though.

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alforddm commented

I'm looking for a solution like this and was wondering if anything had been developed open source? I'm experienced enough to modify something for my own uses but not enough to write something from scratch.

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Rand HOPPE commented

...over at http://kirbymuseum.org

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benjifisher
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Are people still interested in getting Gallery2 albums into Drupal?

I am making progress on this with my own sites. I now have a module that I can use to import photos. It also creates a taxonomy vocabulary based on the album structure, and tags the created nodes with these terms. If there is still interest, I can add the module as a project on d.o. It does not yet handle users, comments, ratings, ...

Questions:

1. Are you willing to import tables from Gallery2 to Drupal. (You could use drush or phpMyAdmin, for example.) Or is this something you would like the module to handle?
2. Do you want to create nodes from the photos, then make your own views, or would you prefer to use a module like Media Gallery?

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majortom commented

I think Media Gallery support would be great. It might be nice to have an option to create nodes for each picture, but by default, I would expect Media Gallery would be a better option. As for importing the tables, if you provide a drush script, to do the import, that would be great, although having the module do all the work would be nice.

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benjifisher
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Currently, the module will import SQL dumps of the tables it knows about. If you have phpMyAdmin, then it is easy to generate those dumps.

Yesterday, I looked at Media Gallery (MG). It is very different. Instead of creating a node (or a file entity) for each photo, MG has a node for each gallery, and then photos are attached to that node. First of all, I am not sure how to create the Gallery2 structure in MG: in MG, can galleries have sub-galleries? Second, the Migrate module has support for creating nodes built in, and I am not sure how hard it will be to add multiple photos to one album instead of creating a node for each.

I will upload a version of the module soon (maybe today) that creates nodes. If you can suggest how to structure the MG albums, I will have a look at the technical issues. (No promises that I will be able to resolve those issues.)

See http://drupal.org/node/1273612 and http://drupal.org/node/1037002

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benjifisher
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I just uploaded my module as a sandbox project: http://drupal.org/sandbox/benji/1793958

I will write some instructions tomorrow. If you are eager, you can have a look before I get to that.

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Rand HOPPE commented

Thanks for the effort, Benji. I will try to use it over the next few weeks.