Need help migrating your site to Drupal?

Worried About Switching To Drupal From Joomla

I hired a web developer to redo my website, http://www.beyondquotes.com which is currently using Joomla. Since he does all of his work in Drupal, he said that it would be a relatively small matter to switch it over. But as time has gone on, I've become a little nervous about switching everything over Drupal mainly because I'm worried that it will affect my search engine rankings.

How-To Conver From Slashcode To Drupal

This is how I moved over my data from a Slashcode site to Drupal. It worked for me, might work for you, might not.

#Slash tables needed, dumpm'!

mysqldump --add-drop-table --opt -c story_topics_rendered journals journals_text users users_info comments comment_text stories story_text topics > SlashTables.sql

#need to change the name of the users and comments tables since they are the same in Drupal and Slash.

mysqldump -u -p db > db.sql
cp SlashTables.sql Good_Slash_Tables.sql
perl change.pl (this just changes the name of the users and comments tables)
mysql -u -p db_name < SlashTables.sql

##now, go to mysql and make the magic happen
##MOve over topics,Needs to go into term_data, term_hierarchy
gomysql
delete from term_data;
insert into term_data (tid,vid,name,description,weight) select tid,2,keyword,textname,0 from topics;
delete from term_hierarchy;
insert into term_hierarchy (tid,parent) select tid,0 from topics;

##Move over the Slash users into the Drupal users table.
##Move over all users who have, left a comment, written in their journal, logged into the site in the past 18 months(erso)
##maybe this needs to be done into 3 identical tables, then do a select out of them?

##Make Sure we get all the Journals Users (Slash users tables was renamed)

delete from users where uid > 2;

Converting small site using drupal

Hi,

I have done a little reading around but have been left quite confused.

I currently run a lacrosse team in the UK. Our website and forums are over at www.playlacrosse.co.uk

The site is a pretty basic 2 coloumn layout with 5 or 6 pages. The navigation and the righthand coloumn are seperate php files. In addition my site automatically updates the league table found the righthand coloumn.

My question is, can I recreate this look and content in drupal, while adding in additional functionality?

Excel (.csv) to Drupal with Search module

What i've got is three .csv files that I edit using Excel. The three files are named:

node.csv
node_revisions.csv
content_type_profile.csv (A custom content type I created using CCK)

Each of these files associate with a MySQL table. I import the data using PHPMyAdmin. Everything imports fine. I can go the the website and view the content that I just imported/created.

Problem with complex multi-level management

I want to build up an application with complex multi-level management functionality. For instance, there are 3 levels of admins in a university, which are TOP-ADMIN, DEP-ADMIN and CLASS-ADMIN. A higer admin has the full control of its direct lower admins, that is, a TOP-ADMIN can manage (add, modify and delete) DEP-ADMINs' accounts. So do the DEP-ADMINs and the CLASS-ADMINs. If possible, a CLASS-ADMIN may set up a node of form, which need to be filled out via its class members. And the content of submission should be passed firstly by its CLASS-ADMIN, then by its DEP-ADMIN, finally by the the TOP-ADMIN.

I've no idea whether it can be implemented through Drupal (5.2). Any ideas?

An illustration may demonstrate the relationship among the admins more clearly:

Multi static sites to multi drupal sites

Hi
Can anyone help a poor lost soul who can't see where to start?

I've read everything I can but don't seem to be able to find a straightforward answer to my particular problem.

I have several sites. Each is redirected to 'my.internet.IP/sitename/' from outside my local network and is available locally at '192.168.local.server/sitename/' on my local network.

How do I set Drupal to give me the same setup? The most I can get at the moment is the basic Drupal theme with "Page not found" in it!

Drupal 5.3
Apache 2
php 5
Fedora Core 7

Pages

Subscribe with RSS Subscribe to RSS - Converting to Drupal