[Imc-drupal-dev] sf-active to drupal migration scripts

[Steev Hise]

I have yet to try them but for the edification of anyone else moving 
from sf-active to drupal I'm forwarding these scripts that victor of 
melbourne imc just sent me as well as a few tips.

steev


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Begin forwarded message:

> Hi Steev,
>
> I've been working on this for melb imc and for a guy shane. Attached
> is some of our conversation about getting it working (may be
> completely irrelevant, but there might be some useful snippets in
> there). The original script exports to drupal 4.6; I've also attached
> a version for 4.7 which I think worked as well. If you want v5 you'll
> either have to install 4.7 then upgrade or else hack the script - it
> writes straight into the drupal database so it's a bit ugly; a nicer
> way would be to use some of the hooks drupal provides for this sort of
> functionality. You will need to do some customisations (particularly
> the category mapping - you will need to set up your
> taxonomy/categories in drupal before running this script). I think I
> ran the script from within the browser. I'd test it out by limiting
> the number of articles imported until everything seems to be working.
> The script lives in the folder website/news. And I think it needs the
> php iconv libraries installed to handle strange characters (long
> hyphens and smart quotes) from text copied from word, though I can't
> quite remember how this worked.
>


Steev Hise |  steev at detritus.net | http://detritus.net/steev
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