Leveraging the migrate module for migrating content into Drupal 8 from CSV files

1. Content Migration: CSV to Drupal 8
Hector Iribarne @hectoriribarne
Track: Development & Performance
Level: Intermediate

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Hector Iribarne (iribarne.com)
Drupal Site Builder & Developer
(since 2007)
Broward Drupal co-founder
iribarne on Drupal.org and IRC
Contributed Contentin and Contentout modules
(D7 sandbox modules)
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Main Topics
Demo migrating content
into D8 from a CSV file
Demo migrating users into
D8 from a CSV file
Let’s look at some D8 code!

4. Basics:
Migrating Content
CSV into Drupal 8
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Drupal 8 - Migrating from a CSV source - Basics :
● Drupal 8 contrib migrate modules:
○ Migrate Plus
○ Migrate Tools
○ Migrate Source CSV
● Great example (reference for this presentation) on migrating
content into Drupal 8 from Lucas Hedding, the maintainer of
the Migrate Source CSV module: https://github.
com/heddn/d8_custom_migrate

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DB from Site 1
(D7)
CSV file (users)
[(h)header,
(c)content]
Site 2
(D8)
Site 1
(D7)
CSV to Drupal 8 Content/User Migration:
Contentout
(One-click to
generate CSV file
from Site 1)
d8_migr8_csv2pages
1
2
Legend:
(h) header
(c) content
Sandbox module
Custom modules
Demo number
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Presentation in one slide 1
h
c
c
c
CSV file (pages)
[(h)header,
(c)content]
h
c
c
c
migr8_users
SQL query
(generate CSV file
from Site 1 DB)
SELECT
FROM
WHERE

7. Demo 1:
CSV content
into D8
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8. Demo 2:
CSV users
into D8
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9. What we
covered in
both demos
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Drupal 7 content to export:

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Create CSV file in Drupal 7 using Contentout:

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Pages.csv file:

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Import CSV content into Drupal 8:

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Voila! Content migrated to D8:

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Drupal 7 users to export:

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SQL query for users:

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qb_users.csv file:

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Import CSV users into Drupal 8:

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Voila! Users migrated to D8:

20. Let’s look at
some code!!!
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Links:
● Code/files: CSV to D8 Migration
○ http://browarddrupal.org/PastMeetings/february-2016
● Contentout sandbox module
○ https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/iribarne/2461613
○ git clone --branch 7.x-1.x http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/iribarne/2461613.git contentout
● Content Migration: CSV to Drupal 7
○ http://www.slideshare.net/hectoriribarne/drupal-camp-atlanta-2015-no-code-content-
migration

22. Questions?
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