Lessons From The Big Rewrite: Data
Reflecting on our rewrite out of Drupal one of the major challenges/time suckers are the data exports/imports. Basically getting data out of Drupal and cleaning it up for the new DB.
Many CMS evaluations focus in the interface, api etc but overlook table structure. This is not that important for blogging platforms but for Drupal or Joomla, where you can define content types, it’s very important.
Ask yourself… what does the DB look like how does our content fit? Are we extending/changing anything in a funky way… something that might cause problems later on? Pay attention to the little things like.. revision history and all the other details outside of the main content.
This is really important as some day its very likely… you will have to get your data out.
Recent Comments