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Migrating to Drupal 7

By : Trevor James
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Migrating to Drupal 7

By: Trevor James

Overview of this book

<p>This book will show you how to migrate your content into the Drupal content management system. You&rsquo;ll start by building a content type in Drupal to hold your migrated content. You&rsquo;ll then import your content into Drupal using the Feeds module. In order to be able to easily use them again and again, you will also learn the best methods of maintaining and packaging migration configurations.<br /><br />In "Migrating to Drupal 7" you&rsquo;ll learn how to quickly package your legacy site&rsquo;s data into a format that&rsquo;s easy to import into Drupal. You&rsquo;ll then build a content type to hold migrated data in Drupal. To save time and hassle you will learn how to import content into Drupal using the Feeds module. You&rsquo;ll then get a brief introduction to the Migrate module and its powerful features.<br /><br />With this guide you&rsquo;ll also learn how to upgrade your Drupal 6 website to Drupal 7 in short, simple steps. You&rsquo;ll also learn how to package your configuration code in Drupal using the powerful Features module.<br /><br />In "Migrating to Drupal 7" you&rsquo;ll start by collecting your current site&rsquo;s content and packaging it up into a CSV file so you can easily import it into Drupal. You&rsquo;ll then build a content type to hold your migrated data and content. <br /><br />Mastering migrations using the Feeds module will be the next invaluable tutorial before you get a closer look at the Migrate module&rsquo;s powerful features. You&rsquo;ll then upgrade your Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 and use helper modules to help run the upgrade faster and with less hassle. This book will then take you through the process of migrating CCK-based Drupal 6 fields to Drupal 7 using the Content Migrate module. <br /><br />Using the Features module you will then package up our Feeds importer and content types into code to help you to build an easily maintainable and flexible Drupal website with.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Migrating to Drupal 7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Maintaining a Migration Path
8
Migrating Content from Earlier Drupal Versions
Index

Chapter 6. Packaging Content Types and Feeds Importers

It would be helpful if we could easily take the content types and importers we built in the previous chapters and somehow package up their entire configurations and settings into something like a module. This way we could easily move these content types and importers to another version of our site or to another Drupal site altogether, as their configurations would be stored in code. One use case for this is when you have multiple versions of your site—a development site (your local environment in MAMP), a staging or sandbox site where you test your site, and a production site. Many projects you work on in the Drupal environment will fit into this deployment process of developing a site locally, pushing your code to a site in a staging or test server, and then deploying your code to production.

You may also want to install a separate Drupal site and test your content types and importers on that separate site. How do we do this without...