Hello
I am pretty new to Drupal. I wanted to develop a site pretty quick for porting my existing site to Drupal. What I am trying to do is - create pages corresponding my old pages and provide them through menu. So user will be able to use the functionality by navigating through Primary links or menu. My back end scripts are PHP script ( basically from my forms I wanted to access the forms php scripts in the back end !! ). I was wondering where can I put my old scripts in the drupal directory so that the pages works as such ... Is there any settings required for this ?
Thanks GK
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:45 AM, salil GK gksalil@gmail.com wrote:
Hello
I am pretty new to Drupal. I wanted to develop a site pretty quick for porting my existing site to Drupal. What I am trying to do is - create pages corresponding my old pages and provide them through menu. So user will be able to use the functionality by navigating through Primary links or menu. My back end scripts are PHP script ( basically from my forms I wanted to access the forms php scripts in the back end !! ). I was wondering where can I put my old scripts in the drupal directory so that the pages works as such ... Is there any settings required for this ?
Make sure to use the PATH module and assign your external URL to an alias matching the old path.
So for example in my old site I have example.com/foo.php and example.com/bar.php. I store these in a directory oldsite under the Drupal root directory then in my drupal admin/config/search/path UI I add http://example.com/oldsite/foo.php aliased to foo.php and http://example.com/oldsite/bar.php aliased to bar.php. Then the user will still see example.com/foo.php and example.com/bar.php. This also leaves your search engine links in tact.
Good luck,
Create a subfolder in the main parit of your drupal site and put them there. Basically drupal .htaccess files say: if the file isn't found then run drupal's index.php, Putting them in a subfolder of your drupal site will simply keep them from conflicting with other drupal files. So if your own php files are found they should run fine comingled with a drupal site.
Doing things at this level will NOT embed those scripts in your theme though, but in my experience this is what most new developers want. Then you can start slowly porting those pages into module pages provided by drupal, or using embedded drupal functionality at your leasure.
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From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of salil GK Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 8:46 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] Help required for PHP script
Hello
I am pretty new to Drupal. I wanted to develop a site pretty quick for porting my existing site to Drupal. What I am trying to do is - create pages corresponding my old pages and provide them through menu. So user will be able to use the functionality by navigating through Primary links or menu. My back end scripts are PHP script ( basically from my forms I wanted to access the forms php scripts in the back end !! ). I was wondering where can I put my old scripts in the drupal directory so that the pages works as such ... Is there any settings required for this ?
Thanks
GK
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