This week we're finally ready to dive in and write our first custom migration with the Migrate module. To get things set up, we need to get our source data, and create the content type in our Drupal site so that we have a destination. Joe walks through grabbing some baseball stats in SQL format for the source, and then building out the content types we'll need for teams and players. With source and destination in place, you'll create your migration module, and get it set up with the basic info you need, including making sure Drupal can talk to our source database, which is a separate database from our Drupal site. In the final lesson for this week, we get a simple migration mapped in our code, and actually run the migration for the first time.
- Set Up Migrate Demo Site and Source Data
- Preparing Your Environment to Run Migrations
- Write a Simple Migration Class
Next week we keep rolling along with the migration by completing our various field mappings, including manipulating some of our source data to better fit our destination.
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