I search for easiest way for migrating from custom CMS builded upon PostgreSQL to WordPress CMS.
I don't search for ready-quick answer, but some guidance, approach explanation etc.
Also, if someone here is sure that his approach is successful, then we can work together (with some money arrangement).
Thank you
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I have made a very basic website using HTML. It is basically a template, the thing you start with. I want to use SQL to make a database. I would also like to display all of the data on that screen (index.html). Can you help me achieve that?
Short answer: No, not only with SQL.
SQL is a language used to perform queries in a database (inserting data, deleting, searching, etc.). To use it to display data on your website you would also need to learn some other programming language, so you can write code that will serve as an interface between your website and the database. Two most popular choices are Python (with Flask or Django) or NodeJS, I recommend using Python, since it's known to be somewhat beginner-friendly. I suggest finding a tutorial online to get you started.
Happy coding!
I think, you should use the 'sqlalchemy' for the database system. You can look the sqlalchemy documentation to have more info.
Where can I find a template for a database design schema. I will be using MySQL. It is a simple website where users, managers, admin can login. Also user can pay a subscription fees and one time fees Using credit card or paypal. I am really confuse how to design the database properly without having major issues later on in the project.This is just a pet project so my resource is none. If you guys could help me out that would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Use followings for reference purpose, and alter them a bit for your need. If you are looking for full functioning data model explicitly for you, then I think, you may not be able to find it.
Sample Databases, use 5th one, I think it suits best for you.
Mysql sample just for reference.
I like taxonomies in Drupal and thinking about building a CMS on it for a website that has been online for years. I'd like to leave the database AS IS (it's mySQL) to make sure the old CMS works as well - some people who use it aren't willing to learn new stuff. The website in question is a products catalog and I'd like to extend it to also manage orders, inventory, samples and QA documentation.
It seems that using two databases - one for drupal itself and the other for data - has other pros as well. It's like separating model from view.
I'm not a frameworks kind of guy - I rather like to do things from scratch employing only minimal number of dependencies and intermediary layers. I like the Drupal's approach and appearances though.
Is Drupal the right tool for the job? How easy is it to use it with existing database without importing all the data into drupal's db? Am I going right direction? Thanks a lot!
I think it is nearly impossible to reuse the existing database as is with Drupal.
If you still want to use Drupal, there is a rather sophisticated module to help moving the data to a database Drupal will like: http://drupal.org/project/migrate
I've got a wordpress multisite installation that's hosting enough blogs I need to shard the database. I see there are three plugins available to spread wordpress across multiple databases:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hyperdb/
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/multi-db
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shardb/
I'm trying to decide which one to use, but I haven't really found much info comparing them[1].
Does anyone have experience deploying any of these three tools? Or better yet, experience with more than one of them and a rundown of why you switched.
Thanks,
Bethany
[1] http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/16244
It looks like the wordpress action is over here on this nice wordpress stackechange site, check it out:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/
And here's an answer to this question, over there.
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/2825/wordpress-sharding-which-multi-db-plugin-to-use
This is a doozy of a question...
I am developing a new wordpress website to replace my client's massively sized blog (tens of thousands of pages). Their existing blog is built on a custom PERL blogging platform from 1992...so as you can imagine, it needs updating.
My job is to find the BEST possible way to migrate all of their existing data into a format that wordpress can understand.
The new theme is very advanced, and this job is very advanced as well. After searching for specialists, I can't seem to find anyone who specialized in this field. What would you do in this situation? Thanks!
I've done this before, it's not that hard. I approached it as a wordpress plugin. First get the plugin to connect to the old database and get it to pull the information you need. Then you can use native wordpress function to insert new users, posts, comments, etc.
I did it line by line, which isn't the most efficient approach, but it is the easiest. I used an AJAX front-end to display the conversion status and repeatedly call the converter back-end, as the actual migration took up to several hours.
If the site can't be shut down for that long while you migrate the database, you could either look at doing a proper bulk export/import, or lock old topics and migrate those over first.
My converter was for an old PHP nuke site, and due to the fact that we were using WP-United, I didn't have to worry too much about user credentials and comments. However, the code might help you get started: http://www.wp-united.com/releases/php-nuke-converter
I have done a couple of these Wordpress migrations. The theme you're using in Wordpress is really not that big a deal, most likely. Themes in Wordpress don't ordinarily impact the database structure.
The Wordpress side is easy, it's in MySQL in most cases. The place to start for you would be to determine how the data in the PERL blog is stored. If it's a custom blog solution, there probably isn't a script you can find to do the migration. Hopefully, it's in a data form that will allow you to do a data dump in a format MySQL will allow you to import using something like phpMyAdmin (a popular GUI for MySQL). At that point, you can create a MySQL statement to match up the relevant fields in your old data with those in MySQL. If you're not comfortable doing it and want an expert, the thing to do is find out how the PERL blog stores it's data and find someone who is familiar with both that format and MySQL.