Migrating from PHP/MYSQL to Drupal

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Ram1986's picture

I have a site that is running on php (webserver) /MySQL (data server), now I want to migrate it to drupal. I am a programmer but I am new to this drupal. If anybody has experienced this kind of project migration please share your valuable experience.

Where do I start now?

I am totally blank. Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers,
Ram

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Hi Ram, Welcome to Drupal! In

saitanay's picture

Hi Ram,

Welcome to Drupal!

In a usual migration, you would generally end up creating either a content type or a Vocabulary (or a Drupal Custom Entity) for each of the entities (tables) in your conventional database.

Once you build the content types and vocabularies, then you will have to migrate the rows/records ,. ie,. migrating the actual content.

You can use Feeds module for that. Or if the content architecture is more complex with multiple node/term/user reference fields, then you can probably consider using Migrate module. It has a bit of a learning curve, but really powerful.

Links:
https://drupal.org/project/feeds
https://drupal.org/project/migrate

Cheers
Tanay

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Tanay Sai
Bangalore
skype: tanay.co.in

India

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