Migrate Content from ASP site to Joomla/PHP
Mon, 07/27/2009 - 8:53am
Hello,
Anyone here have any experience migrating ASP content to Joomla?
There's not a huge budget for this, but hopefully it's a 'simple' (yeah right!) job.
I'm building a Joomla site for a Catholic newspaper, but 2 years of content is sitting on their old hosting provider (Going1up.com). The last time I built a Joomla site for one of their previous customers, I got a CD with everything in an Access db. Since it wasn't a requirement to maintain/keep this info, we skipped it.
I can be reached at catholicservant@gmail.com.
Thanks!
Craig
@catholicservant You can convert the Access db to MySQL db - or actually MySQL insert statements, but you will have to get the columns to match what the jos_content table format is. So there's a Title column in jos_content which would need to be the article title, and so forth. I'm not sure if you are familair with relational databases, but some tables have to be updated before others - jos_categories has to be updated prior to jos_content. If you send me the schema of your data, I can try and help you match up what needs to go where. I had to do something like this before but it was with phpBB (from another bulletin board system).