Using a migration framework to migrate data
When you are migrating data, whether it is from another Drupal site or some other source, you generally need to solve two types of tasks:
1. Tasks related to changing, processing, and converting the format of the source data
2. Tasks related to fetching the data from your source, calling your code to process it, and inserting it into the Drupal database
The second of these tends to include a lot of repetition and manages to be boring without being easy. Here is where the Migrate framework (http://drupal.org/project/migrate) can help. It will let you focus on the first set of tasks - properly processing your data - while it solves the second.
Speaker(s):
Track:
Coding and Development
Experience level:
Intermediate
Comments
One of the hardest things about running Drupal where I work is going between a staging and production environment. This sounds like an awesome session and I can't wait to learn.
It really can helps to perform an actions like migration content between dev and production sites. Also it can helps you if you upgrading your site to next branch.
I think It is a good point to include a usage cases like these to the session, thanks!
Useful session