By thomasmurphy on

We have a 6 year old Perl / Interbase CMS with about 10,000 entries, and were wondering if it was something Drupal could be adapted to work with. I know that Interbase can be converted to MySQL, and that Drupal runs off MySQL, but would drupal be able to be adapted to access and adapt the old database structure, and my understanding is that drupal is basically a PHP library talking to a MySQL database...correct me if I'm wrong...is it possible to write addtional PHP and bolt it on to drupal, and do people do that much? I'm just starting out, so I'm going to set up drupal and give it a test drive, but this will be cooking for a while, so if anyone has experienced anything similar I love to hear from you.

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alexmc commented

You need serious analysis by someone who understands both the Interbase and Drupal data structures. (or someone who can discover them :-)

What I would do is to write perl scripts to extract the required data from interbase and create nodes in Drupal. This isnt so hard for articles, but what about users, and the taxonomy, and any other Drupal modules you may use. What about templates?

If you were really keen then it *might* be possible to write a module in php which does some of this but I dont think it would be a good idea.