Hi guys, can some one please help me migrate a Hotaru CMS powered website to my new Drupal CMS website?
I just need the posts and users to be moved, but posts are the most important. Thanks in advance!

I realize that this may be a difficult question. The devil is always in the details. I have a site that was created many moons ago using Java Server pages, Tomcat with MySQL backend. Separating the presentation layer from the logic isn't possible in it's current form.
I'd like to use Dupral to handle all of the session and authentication. Some sort of framework that has an application block where application (menu choices) results can be posted. I'd eventualy convert the site to PHP if I end up liking this CMS.
The site need to support session variables or something similar.
Is this possible? Is there such a template that someone can recommend that may fit this bill? I'd really like to concentrate on the application and have a content/designer concentrate on site design. Something where we could both work on and enhance indepenadly without stepping on each others toes.

Hi all
I'm in the middle of converting www.fbhate.com to drupal.
The main function of this site is the option to post 'I Hate' comments - like facebook's I Like'.
I need some help in how to make this input in drupal.
I have done so fare:
1: created a content type 'ihate' - and the title is automatically updated from a new text field 'ihate'.
2: created a text filed 'ihate' within content type 'ihate' - this text filed is limited to 140 char. and has a default value 'I Hate '.
All this is working okay, but how do I make a input box - like twitter - where I dont need to access the node/add page?

Hi im new to Drupal completely, this is what i am trying to establish.. i run osdate CMS. i would like to know how to convert it into drupal or somehow link the two CMS's together.
I have small user base for now but, but i would either like the site completely converted to drupal if possible, if not how do i user the database information from the osdate system to autologin
the user to drupal, knowing the person is a registered user of osdate using a link. i tried to bridge phpbb3 but i could not get that to work, if i can get phpbb3 to work in drupal then i can connect my osdate
to the phpbb3, and as long as my phpbb3 was the master, whenever a user clicks the forum link on my osdate they goto phpbb3 an are known users an a account created, then in theory that would link them into drupal, technically making phpbb3 a bridge form osdate into drupal. but my main goal is to completely convert to drupal, i would really appreciate the help, i have no clue what to do, *complete noob* :(

Question: (Drupal 6.19) Is there any method for defeating Drupal's insertion of <p> and/or <br> tags when CR's etc. are encountered in content, short of modifying the source?
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While not strictly a Drupal question, it is prompted by my switch.
The old site ran WordPress and had a feed: http://www.mysite.com/?feed=podcast
For the Drupal installation, I've set up feeds using FeedBurner: http://feedburner.com/myfeeds/feedname
I'm wanting a 301 Redirect but am having trouble getting it to work:
Redirect 301 /?feed=podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/myfeeds/podcast

I am looking for a nice solution for the following task.
Two existing sites need to be merged somehow.
Site 1: local community site build on Drupal 6 (600 members, forum, photo uploading, video, kalender etc,)
Site 2: local radio station site build in php/mysql (mainly news articles and some statics pages)
Condition:
+ individual mainpages (HOME) of the sites should remain accessible via their respective urls: url1 and url2
There is preference for reusing the templates of Site 1 with some small modifications for Site 2 in terms of a logo and some different content blocks. Of course there will be a lot of cross linking between the sites. Being able to use the same "tags" for content is also nice.

Hi there
I'm not new to web development, but am fairly new to Drupal. An existing site for a client wants a new version and I thought it's the best time to port it to Drupal. Everything the existing site has I am pretty confident I can do in Drupal, along with the new requirements.
The only stumbling block is that the site has a discussion forum that is open to anyone. You don't need a registration or log on to post items on the forum. The site owners are happy to trust people to enter their own name and do not want them to log in. The only security they agreed to was to allow me to ask for their email address so once they enter a forum entry, they are sent an email containing a link to unlock their posting.

Coming from a Procedural php background, addmittedly not a programming expert, but have accomplished what I need to for some large projects manageing and presenting regulatory info - multi-state Laws, Statutes, etc.
I'm evaluating Drupal to see it this is the way to go now but after doing some research I'm finding it hard to believe that it is so complex to just query a database and display the content. I've found some complex drupal tutorials on displaying hierarchical content Using CCK etc. but it seems like there has to be an easier way so I'm assuming that I may not be asking the proper questions in Drupal terms (or maybe Drupal is not what I need).

Hi,
I am in process of migrating data from legacy database to Drupal7. I have created a content type (via CCK) with only one field 'title' (I removed the 'body' which is there by default). So basically my nodes will contain only a single string - the title.
I have written a script which will create a node for my new one field content type for any entry in my legacy database. What the script does for each entry is:
- Get the biggest nid in 'node' table (nextId).
- Get the biggest vid in 'node' table (nextId).
- Compare both and use the bigger value as a start point of nid incrementation - GEN_ID
- Insert a row in 'node' table:
INSERT INTO node VALUES (<GEN_ID>,<GEN_ID>,'person','und', <TITLE_VAL>, 1, 1, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(), UNIX_TIMESTAMP(), 2, 1, 0, 0, 0);
- Insert a row in 'node_comment_statistics' table:
INSERT INTO node_comment_statistics VALUES ( <GEN_ID>, 0, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(), NULL, 1, 0);
- Insert a row in 'node_revision' table:
INSERT INTO node_revision VALUES ( <GEN_ID>, <GEN_ID>, 1, <TITLE_VAL>, '', UNIX_TIMESTAMP(), 1, 2, 1, 0);