Anyone who has any interest in Drupal is encouraged to attend, whether you use it in your day job and want to learn more, have used it for a while and need help with something, or are just interested in finding out about the most popular open source content management system.
Next Meeting
Thursday, April 10, 2013
Meeting: 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Social: 8:00pm to 10:00pm
The Farm Bar & Grille
1181 Elm Street, Manchester, NH 03104
(Located at the cross of Elm Street and Bridge Street)
Website: http://www.farmbargrille.com/manchester/home
Map: http://g.co/maps/uegpa
Parking: Diagonally NorthEast of The Farm
- Take Elm Street going North
- Cross over Bridge Street (passing The Farm on your right)
- Turn Right on either Pearl St or Orange St. Follow the loopdy-loops to the inside of the lot.
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Topics/Presentations
We'd like to see everyone come prepared to either pose a question/issue they've ran across in the past month or to share something cool/amazing they've discovered in the past month. There are plenty of questions out there, so let's make sure we know what they are so we can get them all answered at this month's meetup!!
Additionally, please use the comments on this event node to suggest topics. If there is a consensus, we will try to have someone prepared to do an informal presentation.
Dinner & More Drinks
After each meetup, we usually depart from the "structured" environment, and continue our discussions over beers and food. So, when we are done being geeky, let's order food!
We look forward to seeing you all there!!
Comments
I will be on a train to NYC.
I won't be there this week b/c I will be on a train to NYC.
http://www.nyccamp.org/session/user-personas-testing-project-managers-jo...
Michelle Lauer
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Philly
And I'll be in Philly but hope to see you all next month
Psssst....
I have a surprise for you guys... :)
Jake Strawn (@himerus)
ThemeGeeks | Development Geeks
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as a (relative) newlywed...
as a (relative) newlywed... You shouldn't be coy about secret surprises, Jake...
Roger
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Topic
I'll be there. AND i have a good topic to ask that might be quite helpful to the group.
I need to figure out how to migrate 600+ nodes from one site to another site that's a new rebuild of the old one. Can't seem to get it to work correctly using feeds. And don't know the right way to do the coding for migration scripts.
Is this something anyone else wants to have discussed?
-Lou
If you don't get a good
If you don't get a good answer in the meeting, I could help you write a custom importer. I'd do the following:
I would write a way to export all the nodes as JSON from the old site. Output each fields value, with images just referencing their URL on the old site.
I would then write a custom import module on the new site that loops over all the nodes in the aforementioned JSON. Knowing the structure you can map everything in advance. Loop through it, map data to respective fields for new nodes, get remote images and save locally and write them into the files table... and then node save them all.
It will be a long running task, but in theory it should be straight forward.
I've built similiar before for parseing RSS feeds with additional XML data into more advanced and involved content types
This is where UUID would really excel to prevent creating duplicate content should something error out in the middle... but I've not used UUID.
Jesse Nicola -- Shredical six different ways to Sunday! -- My Portfolio
Migration is a great topic
I for one think this is a great topic to discuss and have recently looked into using drush site-upgrade for a project going from Drupal 6 to 7
https://drupal.org/project/drush_sup
I heartily endorse the use of
I heartily endorse the use of Drush Site Upgrade.
It was the fundamental tool I used help me migrate LuthierBuilt.net from D6 to D7.
I don't see him writing D6 >
I don't see him writing D6 > D7, just a site upgrade and a migration. I'd be curious to see Drush Site Upgrade in action though, I have a lot of older D6 sites going on I am dreading upgrading.
Jesse Nicola -- Shredical six different ways to Sunday! -- My Portfolio
Jessie, How much would you
Jessie,
How much would you charge to build me a script as a baseline to just enter the values into? I know enough coding to handle the input of the field and such, but not enough to actually write the script.
I've got a tight budget on the project, but considering how much time it will save me, I'd gladly pay well for the script. Please let me know.
Thanks
-Lou
Well, first I'd see if
Well, first I'd see if there's a better solution out there :) While what I write will definitely work and be entirely customized to any unique aspects of your situation... there may be a simpler solution out there.
As for me helping, if you did want my help I'd need to know more about just how many content types we're dealing with, how many of them have files associated with them (this is difficult), if we're dealing with taxonomy terms, any other unique or non-basic form values... do I need to map authors over to the new site and so is importing users important... etc etc.
If you don't get your answer tonight, circle back to me with a better description of the situation and I'll help you out.
I won't be there tonight. I'm in Boston Mondays through Thursdays for work, NH Fri-Sat.
Jesse Nicola -- Shredical six different ways to Sunday! -- My Portfolio