Automate importing a MySQL database to C5 and replicate old pages...
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Guys,
I am completing a tender and the customer has an 800 page 'archive' on his old site, each page with between 5 - 10 blocks of text as articles. No images. There is a sub page hierarchy too.
He wants to create 800 new pages in C5 with the sub page hierarchy and transfer the data across so it mirrors what is on the old site. It's stored in a MySQL database.
Is this possible please??
Ian
I am completing a tender and the customer has an 800 page 'archive' on his old site, each page with between 5 - 10 blocks of text as articles. No images. There is a sub page hierarchy too.
He wants to create 800 new pages in C5 with the sub page hierarchy and transfer the data across so it mirrors what is on the old site. It's stored in a MySQL database.
Is this possible please??
Ian
- You could write a custom importer, as a tool or single page, that created pages & page versions, and populated them.
- C5 already has an xml format for importing (and a few addons that use it). So you could write something to generate the xml from the existing site and import that.
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/importexport-content/...
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/sample-content-generato...
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/eantics-xml-transformat...