I have quite a few pages that are in PHP and we are moving to Confluence Cloud.

Question

We are moving our current intranet site from Joomla (onprem server) to Confluence Cloud. As a result of many years of intranet page development, I have several pages that are pulling data in from databases and the data is being displayed using PHP pages.

I am testing several apps to achieve this functionality, but was wondering if anyone else out there has run into the same obstacle and what they did.

Shannon S · Answer

Hi Matthew,

I had a look at their documentation, but I wasn’t able to find anything specific about any system requirements in order to use the add-on.

I would recommend raising a ticket with the codefortynine support team. You can find their contact information on the Support tab of their Marketplace listing:

* External Data for Confluence: Support

They’ll be able to have a look at your issue with you and determine why you might be having issues.

Take care,

Shannon

Matthew Buchanan_qf0z4a · Answer

Shannon -

Thanks for your reply! I am working one getting one of the apps that is mentioned in your link to connect to one of our databases now. I have tried getting External Data for Confluence to connect with a database that we house internally, but am having some issues. I believe it has something to do with the security of the database.

Any suggestions on what to check would be greatly appreciated!

Shannon S · Answer

Hi Matthew,

Happy to help you with your migration to Confluence Cloud! It sounds like you have a dynamic page in Joomla currently, and you need to display this data in Confluence.

An idea might be to install an add-on from Marketplace that will allow you to display data from a database, much like you are doing in Joomla with PHP. There are a few add-ons that can help with this, and some examples can be found below:

* Confluence Cloud Database Add-ons

Otherwise, importing data directly from Joomla would require you to convert the content to XML or a Word Document, and then import that into Confluence. You can see Import content into Confluence Cloud for more details on that.

I hope this helps, but let me know if you have any questions.

Take care,

Shannon