This two-part course will be held on Wednesday-Thursday, April 16-17, 2014 from 9:00 am to Noon. Students must attend both sessions.
Almost anyone with a bit of Drupal knowledge can build a functional Drupal site these days, but what happens when it's time to get the last 5 years of your organization's content into that snazzy new site? More often than not, the solution involves hiring outside help or migrating content manually (ugh). Fortunately, the Drupal community has written some amazing tools to assist with content migration, and this workshop will demonstrate how to utilize them.
Examples of migrating data from comma-separated-values files (via the Feeds module), Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 (via the Migrate module), and from an generic MySql database (also via the Migrate module) will form the basis for the workshop. Participants can expect to leave the workshop with confidence that they can tackle their next data migration project.
Suggested prerequisites: Participants should have a good base knowledge of Drupal fundamentals for the Feeds migration portion of the workshop. The Migration module examples will involve a generous amount of object-oriented PHP code.
Prior to the workshop, students will be provided information about getting a sandbox environment up-and-running on either their local machine or via a (free) 3rd party hosting service.
This webinar will be delivered via SEFLIN Connect. Log-in information will be emailed approximately one week before the course.
Presented by: Michael Anello, Anello Consulting
Michael Anello is a leader in the Florida Drupal community, Drupal developer, trainer, and consultant. Through DrupalEasy, he specializes in custom modules, theme integration, and project management. He has worked on dozens Drupal sites including FieldandStream.com and Techwell.com, as well as mini-sites for Marriott and JetBlue. He has built educational, library, and political web sites with active social communities and has contributed several Drupal modules to the Drupal Project. community.
Michael has provided training courses throughout the United States, and has presented Drupal sessions in the US and abroad. He created the Drupal Career Starter Program, a 10-week intensive course to get those who wish to begin a career in Drupal with a fast start and solid foundation. He also hosts the weekly DrupalEasy podcast.
Registration deadline: 04/09/2014
Staff from Florida libraries may register for this workshop at no charge. Priority will be given to SEFLIN members. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list and added as space permits after the registration deadline.
Non-Member Registration Form