I have a D7 site--it's now live and doing well and the next step is to import a large set of staff bios. They are right now stored as PHP files, in a very organized format. They have these fields:
Name Title Bio Image
which must be parsed out of the HTML, and for Image, I must actually of course import the image as an image file. It looks like I would NOT have to parse the PHP b/c the PHP part is unrelated to the content items I need. I just need to parse out, for example, in a div with class="title" there is an H2 with his name and a P with the person's title.
I think I can an XML parser in PHP to get those items.
My first question is, should I be looking into the Feeds module, the Migrate module or do this with custom code? Once I get started hopefully I can finish. :)
Thanks, Fred
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Fred Jones fredthejonester@gmail.com wrote:
I have a D7 site--it's now live and doing well and the next step is to import a large set of staff bios. They are right now stored as PHP files, in a very organized format. They have these fields:
Name Title Bio Image
which must be parsed out of the HTML, and for Image, I must actually of course import the image as an image file. It looks like I would NOT have to parse the PHP b/c the PHP part is unrelated to the content items I need. I just need to parse out, for example, in a div with class="title" there is an H2 with his name and a P with the person's title.
I think I can an XML parser in PHP to get those items.
My first question is, should I be looking into the Feeds module, the Migrate module or do this with custom code? Once I get started hopefully I can finish. :)
So is this more for individual user profiles or one page giving the staff data to anonymous users? It sounds like more than one page so you could create a staff content type and add fields for data. If all the pages use well formed xhtml using the XML parser might be good but otherwise you need the DOM parser. I think I would custom code it but I don't know what you have exactly.
So is this more for individual user profiles or one page giving the staff data to anonymous users? It sounds like more than one page so you could create a staff content type and add fields for data. If all the pages use well formed xhtml using the XML parser might be good but otherwise you need the DOM parser. I think I would custom code it but I don't know what you have exactly.
OK I also thought custom code makes the most sense. But now I wonder if these should be Users instead of a staff content type. In D7 they should be extensible as entities I think. I suppose I could use http://drupal.org/project/profile2 or create fields directly on the user entity, but I don't know how to do that. Yet. :)
I see this http://drupal.org/node/993934 but I don't have Profile on my site. Nor do I see that it's a core option.
Thanks, Fred
Sorry for my late entry.
Any time you see the Profile module mentioned concerning D6 and before, automatically translate that to Profile2 in D7. (Big secret: Profile is still there.)
Then you might find the Migrate module useful for this.
I can't imagine that you are talking about a huge amount of data here. I'd probably create a few manually, look at how the database stores those, and then probably write a quick little module to update the database directly. From what I remember seeing this shouldn't be difficult.
Another approach would be to simply use http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules!user!user.module/function/user_save... stick the new fields into the $edit array.
Nancy
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From: Fred Jones
OK I also thought custom code makes the most sense. But now I wonder if these should be Users instead of a staff content type. In D7 they should be extensible as entities I think. I suppose I could use http://drupal.org/project/profile2 or create fields directly on the user entity, but I don't know how to do that. Yet. :)
I see this http://drupal.org/node/993934 but I don't have Profile on my site. Nor do I see that it's a core option.
Nancy, cool, thanks. That answers it. Yeah, I think user_save() is the best. Now I just must figure out how to import images also, but I'm sure I can find that.
Thanks!
Fred
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