Replicate data between MySQL servers with a different structure

As part of a system upgrade I need to sync a database between 2 different servers (master-master). The catch is that the structure is slightly different between the 2.

Most of the differences are:-

• Columns that exist in 1 but not the other and need populating based on other fields/tables
• Type changes where some integer fields are now enums with text values that will need mapping from a static list
• Multiple tables have been merged into 1

So far I’ve been thinking about setting triggers up which would catch all INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements and insert them into a “queue” table. A PHP script would then convert the data and write the changes to the other server.

All queries in the system are executed through a central database object so I could potentially add some code to parse each query, create a new query that works with the other server and execute both queries together.

There’s also the possibility to only use the new database and use query parsing code to re-format the data on each read/write to make it compatible with the old system.

Data has to be copied both ways (master-master) and it has to be as close to realtime as possible. Has anyone got any better suggestions or advice on how to do this?