This is the third part in a series of blog posts about how to use of migrate and migrate_d2d to migrate content and files from Drupal 6 to 7. In the third part will be about files. Part 1 - Some background information, setup and user migration. contains information about how migration in general works and the needed configuration.

This is the second part in a series of blog posts about migrate and migrate_d2d. I will in this post demonstrate how to migrate taxonomy terms from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. Part 1 - Background, setup and user migration. contain information about how migration i general work and the needed configuration. Please make sure you read and understand it before attempting to follow this.

The normal way of performing a major upgrade in Drupal have traditionally been by running update.php, that fire off a lot of rather complex hook_update_N() tasks. They will try to upgrade configuration and content from one major version to another. Example Drupal 6 to 7. This is all about to change in Drupal 8. Drupal 8 have got the migrate module baked in, and upgrade is no longer a upgrade, but a migration of data and configuration from one system to another.

Ever had a site not controlled by the features module or felt that using it, add to much administrative overhead? Or you simply want to learn how to use Drupal field API? This is for you.

In this example I will try to keep the amount of code to the very minimum. Putting too much features into a example have a tendency to put some people off with the amount of code it create. The example will not explain how you create new field types, but rather use one existing provided by Drupal core.

Local dev. setup by using homebrew

Note:An quick, stort and easy starting point. Does not provide any background information outside the needed steps getting PHP, Apache and the database server running.
Tested on OS X 10.8.x/10.9.x.

Ever wanted to change the Drupal 7 markup? Get rid of all those pesky divs? If so, this is article for you. I will give you a simple example how to do this not by changing the site theme (template.php) but by using a theme function.

Yes, you have make a module, and yes, I will show you have to make it. You will also find, attached to this article, the complete code wrapped up in a zip-file. Using theme functions is not that hard so relative new Drupal users and themers should be able to follow, though, a basic PHP knowledge might come in handy.