Using some features from the following script(http://drupal.org/node/105308) I managed to port
a Xaraya 1.4 to Drupal 6.13.

It does the following:

• import of users

• import of articles and comments

• import of forums and comments

• import of content types

• import of vocabularies and terms

• import of files

The first thing I’ve done was to eliminate the sequences table, which is deprecated starting from Drupal version 4.

Managing categories:
I’ve used the xaraya categories with parent id equal to 0 as Content Types and Vocabularies
and inserted all the other as terms associated with the vocabulary.

The term hierachy is created by running a script on the term_hierarchy table
setting parent_id 0 for the first child and the original parent_id for the next ones.

Managing files and images:
Inserting them into the ‘files’ table is not enought, the FileField
and ImageField modules installation is mandatory in order to associate an field with an node.(this part is not implemented)

In order to mentain the relationships safe I had to use the original id’s in all tables .

Click here to download the script

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If you’ve encountered this message: “Windows cannot find url” when clicking links in external applications (like for example Yahoo Messenger, Adobe Acrobat, etc), here’s the solution as stated here:

1. Open Explorer
2. Select Tools and then Folder Options
3. Select the File Types tab
4. Select Extension: (NONE), File Type: HyperText Transfer Protocol
5. Click Advanced toward the bottom of the window
6. In the Edit File Type window, select open and click Edit
7. Clear the DDE message box (which should contain “%1″)
8. Click OK, Click OK
9. Repeat for File Type: HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy

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