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You will find that at the stage of upgrading Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 that some of your modules will cease to work. This is because modules must be developed to work with Drupal 6 due to changes within the Drupal API for each new release. If this happens then you will need to first check to see if there is a Drupal 6 release for the modules that you have installed by visiting the Drupal modules page.

If it exist then download the module and install it. Otherwise, you may help out and start porting the module so it will run on drupal 6. This isn't too difficult of a task, thanks to the core developers that have made it easier than before.

Porting Drupal 5.x module

Below is a great screencast taking you through a step-by-step process of how you can port any modules to Drupal 6 if it has not yet been done.

Topics covered include:

• How to tell the module portage status of your Drupal site with the Upgrade Status module.
• How to perform basic community research to determine the actual porting status of your modules.
• Overview of the amazing Coder module and how to configure it.
• Where to find more information about changes between Drupal versions.
• How to use Coder module to convert a simple module from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, step by step.
• How to test to ensure the porting status was a success.

Big thanks to Angie (Webchick) Byron of Lullabot for the creating the video screencast.