Sanitary migrations with XMLRPC

jp.stacey — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:16:25 +0000

Type: Not planned session

Migrating full Drupal versions can be hard and unearth horrors. If you just want content, users etc, XMLRPC could be for you.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

From Drupal to Drupal over XMLRPC proxies

This is a case study of the work involved migrating a Drupal 5 site to Drupal 6.

If your D5 site only has only core modules enabled, migration is pretty straightforward. Start adding contributed modules to the mix and - as long as you don't use unknown or unsupported code - you can still migrate with a minimum amount of pain. But what about when:

The migration will seriously break the theme
The client decides that migration is a good time to completely re-theme
... and add new functionality

A Kent approach to Drupal Awesomeness

sjy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:04:34 +0000

Type: Not planned session

The University of Kent has been experimenting with novel ways of removing the affliction of data duplication throughout our web and print publications using Drupal.

We have constructed a series of content factories to create and manage our output in sensible chunks.

This talk aims to show you the answers we came up with in migrating our core website (systems) over to Drupal, and the hurdles we have had to overcome.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

Kent's publicity factory

We will take you on a magical journey through code and print using Drupal as our vessel of discovery. Ok, maybe not, but we have been busy working with Drupal to decouple our data from where and how it is presented.

The University of Kent has a history of using Dreamweaver as our main publishing platform for web. We used it for publishing news, the online prospectus, events, pretty much everything. This led us to a situation where we found ourselves with 200,000 pages of content, much of which being duplicated and leading our web editor to the verge of breakdown.

Additional Presenters: Mark Fendley Matthew Bull

DrupalCon Copenhagen August 23-27 2010 - XML

Sanitary migrations with XMLRPC

A Kent approach to Drupal Awesomeness