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videohead
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Drupal to Joomla CB

Post by videohead » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:31 pm

I just successfully converted a 500 person Drupal site to Joomla Community Builder.
It took about 30+ queries in phpMyAdmin - took me about 4 hours, and I am not particularly SQL adept.

What a huge difference in performance, usability, and available features!!
I heartily recommend this for any non-profit running Drupal.

The conversion was pretty smooth.
The only missing pieces were passwords (they use different Hash specifications) and the dates for the posts.
So I kept the old site functional so people could look up their old posts, and reset all of the user passwords to 'password'.
Drupal's weird Julien date function is seriously messed up - I honestly couldn't find a conversion utility.
Post here or contact me directly if you need help with this.
Unfotrunately, I didn't keep track of my queries, but I'm pretty sure I could recreate them.
Lots of Insert into from and about 10 inner joins. Not too bad!!

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Re: Drupal to Joomla CB

Post by assur3 » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:23 pm

If you don't mind my asking, why did you convert? Joomla is better-looking, easier to use, and has a lot more functionality, but Drupal seems to be a lot faster with a large user base, and has access control and DOM built in. Did your objectives change?


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