Migrate module tour by Moshe Weitzman of Acquia. Presented at Drupalcon London 2011. See http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/data-migration-drupal

3. Code and Coders
Data Migration into Drupal
Moshe Weitzman
@weitzman

4. Goals
• Move data accurately and completely
• End product is 100% native Drupal
• Rapid, iterative, parallel development
• Excellent dev <=> client communication

5. Migrate UI
• Communicate development progress
• Communication eases worry
• Execute the migrations (or use drush)

6. Sources
• mysql, postgres, mssql, oracle,
• csv, xml, json
• see /plugins for example code

7. Destinations
• Entities: node_save(), user_save(), ...
• Fields (text, number, list, address, link...
• Contrib: OG, Flag, User Relationships, ...
• DB Table
• Easily create plugins for new ones

8. Field Mappings
• $this->addFieldMapping('show', 'status')
->defaultValue(0)

9. Migration Class
• The brains of a migration.

10. Hooks
• prepareRow(), prepare()
• complete()
• See migrate_example/beer.inc, wine.inc

11. Single Record
map
Source Mappings save
message

12. Drush Commands
• migrate-status
• migrate-import, migrate-rollback
• message and map tables
• migrate-fields-destination

13. Advanced Features
• Synch
•Highwater tracking
•System of Record
• Stub entities
• File handling (entity or File Field)
• Timers, xhprof
• migrate_example: oracle, baseball

14. Publish your Work
• Share your classes
•Wordpress Migrate
•TYPO3_migrate
•Custom classes

15. • Professional Services
• Mike Ryan (author of Migrate module)
• Moshe Weitzman

17. What did you think?

18. What did you think?
Locate this session on the
DrupalCon London website:
http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/schedule

19. What did you think?
Locate this session on the
DrupalCon London website:
http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/schedule
Click the “Take the survey”
link

20. What did you think?
Locate this session on the
DrupalCon London website:
http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/schedule
Click the “Take the survey”
link
THANK YOU!