Comments on: Moving to Drupal 5 Beta? http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/11/21/moving-to-drupal-5-beta/ just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:41:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jim http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/11/21/moving-to-drupal-5-beta/#comment-82590 Jim Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 #comment-82590 Excellent tip, Darcy. I'll give it a whirl ... Thanks. Excellent tip, Darcy. I’ll give it a whirl …

Thanks.

]]> By: Jim http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/11/21/moving-to-drupal-5-beta/#comment-82601 Jim Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 #comment-82601 I believe it is a php error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: _wp2d_custom_process_text() in .../modules/wp2drupal/migrate.php on line 913 The line in the migrate.php file is the following string: $string = _wp2d_custom_process_text($string); The module suggests there may be some issues with PHP 4 (as opposed to PHP 5), so i may have to investigate this further. if it works, it sure beats downgarding and upgrading, but that is still a big IF I believe it is a php error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: _wp2d_custom_process_text() in …/modules/wp2drupal/migrate.php on line 913

The line in the migrate.php file is the following string:
$string = _wp2d_custom_process_text($string);

The module suggests there may be some issues with PHP 4 (as opposed to PHP 5), so i may have to investigate this further. if it works, it sure beats downgarding and upgrading, but that is still a big IF

]]> By: Horst http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/11/21/moving-to-drupal-5-beta/#comment-82709 Horst Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 #comment-82709 I'm also quite close on updating to D5 and also for me one of the showstoppers is the lack of anti-spam modules (esp. Akismet). But apart from that I can't await the moment my sites is updated :-) D5 simply looks like a great release. One of the main reasons for me to aim for D5 is the jQuery support. Currently I simply have way too many problems (and I don't want to patch core files ;-) ) to make the Drupal4.x-jQuery combination really enjoyable. I’m also quite close on updating to D5 and also for me one of the showstoppers is the lack of anti-spam modules (esp. Akismet). But apart from that I can’t await the moment my sites is updated :-) D5 simply looks like a great release. One of the main reasons for me to aim for D5 is the jQuery support. Currently I simply have way too many problems (and I don’t want to patch core files ;-) ) to make the Drupal4.x-jQuery combination really enjoyable.

]]> By: chris garrett http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/11/21/moving-to-drupal-5-beta/#comment-82736 chris garrett Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 #comment-82736 I will wait until you have tried it first ;O) I will wait until you have tried it first ;O)

]]> By: Jim http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/11/21/moving-to-drupal-5-beta/#comment-82737 Jim Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 #comment-82737 Hey Darcy, I know I am a bit behind the Drupal conversion curve, but I was sure you had annotated your conversion process from WordPress to Drupal last May. Problem is I can't find the post(s) discussing how you integrated the WordPress database of posts, comments, pages, etc into Drupal 4.7? I am playing with the idea currently, and I tried exporting my WorPress posts to Drupal using this <a href="http://drupal.org/node/69706">module</a> -to no avail. Any advice for a potential convert? Thanks ... Hey Darcy,

I know I am a bit behind the Drupal conversion curve, but I was sure you had annotated your conversion process from WordPress to Drupal last May. Problem is I can’t find the post(s) discussing how you integrated the WordPress database of posts, comments, pages, etc into Drupal 4.7? I am playing with the idea currently, and I tried exporting my WorPress posts to Drupal using this module -to no avail. Any advice for a potential convert?

Thanks …

]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/11/21/moving-to-drupal-5-beta/#comment-82738 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 #comment-82738 Jim, the recipe I followed is no longer online, but involved migrating from WordPress 2 back to 1.x, then over to Drupal 4.6 and up to 4.7 It wasn't fun, and was a bit scary, but it worked. I would have tried that module you linked to. You say it didn't work - what happened? PHP error? Something silent? Jim, the recipe I followed is no longer online, but involved migrating from WordPress 2 back to 1.x, then over to Drupal 4.6 and up to 4.7

It wasn’t fun, and was a bit scary, but it worked. I would have tried that module you linked to. You say it didn’t work – what happened? PHP error? Something silent?

]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/11/21/moving-to-drupal-5-beta/#comment-82739 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 #comment-82739 I might hold off a bit before updating for good. Early poking looks like all's well, but the spam blockers aren't updated yet and I wouldn't want to go live with a D5 site without those. In related news - I just updated Bad Behavior to use the latest BB build, and it's apparently doing a MUCH better job of blocking evildoers, and my site feels a couple of orders of magnitude more responsive. knock wood. cross fingers. I might hold off a bit before updating for good. Early poking looks like all’s well, but the spam blockers aren’t updated yet and I wouldn’t want to go live with a D5 site without those.

In related news – I just updated Bad Behavior to use the latest BB build, and it’s apparently doing a MUCH better job of blocking evildoers, and my site feels a couple of orders of magnitude more responsive. knock wood. cross fingers.

]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/11/21/moving-to-drupal-5-beta/#comment-82740 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 #comment-82740 Ah. How about using a local machine to do the migration? You could install something like <a href="http://www.mamp.info/en/home/">MAMP</a> on your desktop box (or powerbook or whatever) to do the migration with PHP5 and MySQL provided in a self-contained installation, then move the database to the server when done? That's basically what I did for my migration - it all happened on my Powerbook first, then I moved the results back up to the server. Ah. How about using a local machine to do the migration? You could install something like MAMP on your desktop box (or powerbook or whatever) to do the migration with PHP5 and MySQL provided in a self-contained installation, then move the database to the server when done? That’s basically what I did for my migration – it all happened on my Powerbook first, then I moved the results back up to the server.

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