My name is Timothy McGlothlin and I represent the city of The Dalles, Oregon on our city web modernization project. Currently, our home page is hosted on a server located at city hall and our page was created using Drupal 6.0. We are interested in modernizing our web page using a theme overlay and adding smart phone capability to our page. We are exploring companies or individual that can offer expertise and guidance to make this project successful. Do you have the capability and expertise to help?
I have an existing Drupal 6 site with extensive custom coding. Planning on waiting until 8 is out and stable with the modules I need to upgrade. This website has a 17G database with about 5.7M pages. This site is cumbersome to say the least. I run Varnish so it is pretty quick all things considered.
In the mean time I want to add a new section to the site. This will likely boost the pages up beyond 24M let alone the size of the DB.
In Drupal 6, I need to create an author content type with fields for firstname and surname (nothing to do with a node's authoring information).
1. I don't need a title, or even want to bother the person creating the node with seeing it. How do I handle the Title field, and what do I stick in it, if I can't leave it blank?
2. If I have two authors with the same name, eg. John Smith, how do I make each node unique? Can I expose/access the node ID.
Is there an upgrade path from Drupal 6 node reference fields, to entities as used in Drupal 7 and 8?
I have several Drupal 6 sites using Node Reference CCK fields. The D7 References module "integrates with the content_migrate module present in CCK 7.x-2.x-dev to allow the migration of field definitions and field values from D6".
But D7 (Entity reference) and D8 (Entities in core) make use of Entities. How do I upgrade?