Upgrade procedure

[jxrossel]

Hi,

Being a faithful user of Phoca products and having to upgrade quite often to follow up with the amazing development work, I have noticed two recurrent problems:

1) the menu link to the component has to be re-established manually after the upgrade.

2) more of a problem: all the global settings are lost.

For point (2), I was wondering if the old settings could be saved in a temporary table and then transferred to the new table after upgrading. As far as I have seen, the parameters name remain the same from one version to the other so that no clash would be encountered.

Just a suggestion,

Cheers

Jonathan

[Jan]

Hi, this is know issue described in Phoca Gallery (Guestbook) Manual,...

The upgrade method is not 100% in Joomla! and Joomla! core team works on it, so we must wait until it will be 100% ready...

Now, you can use e.g. phpMyAdmin to copy the default settings and paste them after upgrading or you can upgrade via FTP (this is the quickest way to upgrade)


Jan

[jxrossel]

Ok,

I did not know that the upgrade method was a Joomla feature! I thought it was yours...

Up to now, I avoided FTP to upgrade, because I am never quite sure to put the good files at the right place or if the database must be modified, and so on... (Oh, I've just seen you have added a detailed explanation in the user manual!)

But, I'll keep the phpMyAdmin idea! Thanks,

Jonathan