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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

Planning for the content type fields


So now that we have created our content type we are ready to add custom fields to the content type that will hold the data from our CSV file. Before we start adding the fields let's take a quick glance over our CSV data to see what types of fields and data we need to collect. We're going to illustrate this in a table for reference purposes and this will help us when we start adding our fields. On the left is the name of the CSV column and on the right is the type of the field we need to create in Drupal:

Name of the CSV column

Type of the field

fire_dept_name

Title (This field has already been created in the previous section as the default Title field in our content type. We will import the fire_dept_name column into the Title field.)

hq_addr1, hq_addr2, hq_city, hq_state, hq_zip, mail_addr1, mail_addr2, mail_po_box, mail_city, mail_state, and mail_zip

Location and Text fields. (We'll import some of the address data into fields provided by the Location...