Druporter

Druporter - The convenient Drupal importer module

The Druporter module can be used to seamlessly import contents from an old website (non-Drupal based) to a newly created or existing Drupal website.

How it works

Druporter works on the following model

• Druporter is a quick and easy module to import contents from any legacy
  website irrespective of the back-end framework used by the website.
• Druporter does a page by page on-demand import rather than a bulk import.
• A user requests for a page on the new website which has not been imported
  from the old website yet.
  (Eg. http://my.new-drupal-site.com/path-to-my-old-content)
• If the page has already been imported, Drupal displays the imported page.
• If it has not been imported, Druporter requests the page to the old
  website i.e. to the URL http://my.old-site.com/path-to-my-old-content.
• Next, Druporter fetches the content and title from the page and uses them
  to create the node of the selected content type (in Druporter settings).
• Druporter retains the old website's path aliases.
• So, next time if some one requests for the page
  http://my.new-drupal-site.com/path-to-my-old-content, they receive the
  node imported Drupal by Druporter.

Here is a diagram explaining the working model:

Advantages

• Permalinks are retained while importing, so SEO is not affected.
• It is completely seamless and on-demand.
• No manual work of sanitising import dumps has to be done.
• Re-importing a specific content page is as easy as just deleting the
  node / page from the admin panel and requesting the URL again.

Installation/Configuration

• Download and extract the module archive into [drupal_root]/sites/all/modules/

• Download phpQuery.php from here and place it inside [drupal_root]/sites/all/libraries/pq/ so that its path looks like [drupal_root]/sites/all/libraries/pq/phpQuery.php.

  Alternatively, use the following commands:

  mkdir -p [drupal_root]/sites/all/libraries
  cd [drupal_root]/sites/all/libraries
  git clone https://github.com/nettantra/phpQuery-lib.git pq
  

  
  

• Go to Drupal Admin >> Modules i.e. (admin/modules)
• Select Druporter and click save
• Go to Drupal Admin >> Configuration >> System >> Druporter Settings i.e. (admin/config/system/druporter)
• Enter the Source/Old Website URL, the Content Type to populate to, the title and body fields on the content type, the selectors for the title and body fields and Save

• Now, simply go to your new site and import old contents using old content permalinks on the new site:

  Eg. http://my.new-drupal-site.com/path-to-my-old-content will import data from http://my.old-site.com/path-to-my-old-content
  

Module Dependencies

• ctools
• pathauto
• libraries

External Libraries

• phpQuery

Development Sponsored By

• NetTantra Technologies