Hi
I wonder the best way to upgrade MyAlbum to MyAlbum-P when I on the same time wish to upgrade XOOPS 1.3.8 -> 2.0.5.2?

Should do the upgrade in my old xoops first or? Should just copy the thumbs and photos into the new xoops environment and start the upgrade process.

I wish to keep all my data in the db of course

Thanks for any help on this matter!

/Roger

hi tvesala.

I'm sorry that I can't teach you how to upgrade 1.3.x to 2.0.x.
Because I've never used XOOPS 1.3.x, nor myAlbum 1.0.3.

Probably the table structure of myAlbum1.0.3 is almostly same as myAlbum-P 2.x.
So, it is easy to upgrade into myAlbum-P, I think.

Perhaps the table of myalbum_comment should be converted into xoopscomments.

Hi again!
After hours of testing I have come up with the answer to my previous question.

The following steps must be done in the mentioned order. I will explain how to upgrade XOOPS 1.3.x > 2.0.6 RC and at the same upgrade MyAlbum 1.0.x > 1.1.3. In the final step I will describe how you end up you having the superior MyAlbum-P module installed with all your previous photos in place.

1. Make a local backup of your xoops 1.3.x files and the db from your web-account!
2. Erase your entire content of xoops-files in your webaccount!
3. Upload a xoops 2.0.X release to your webaccount!
4. Upload the MyAlbum version 1.1.3. MyAlbum 1.1.3 (beta)
5. Now upload all your photos to the ../modules/myalbum/photos and ../thumbs.
6. CHMOD photos and thumbs catalogs to 777.
7. Install xoops again with another table prefix, i.e. 'test' (we do this in order to make sure that necessary catalogs have the correct privileges).
8. Now erase all tables containing the prefix 'test'
9. Upload, again, a fresh unused copy of the mainfile.php to your webaccount.
10. Run the installation again, but use your original prefix that you used for xoops 1.3.x
11. Follow and accept all upgrade questions!
12. Upload MyAlbum-P to your modules directory
13. Upload you photos from your backup to /uploads/photos and to thumbs.
14. Enter System/Modules and update the MyAlbum module.
15. Done!

hi tvesala

Thank you for a wonderful report!

This must be very useful for some people using myAlbum1.0.x and XOOPS1.3.x

By the way, you will shortly find the proof that this really worked as described at http://ipsc.lsf.nu. I'm just waiting for my domain provider to point the domain to another DNS.

The old website can be viewed for yet another couple of days at http://www.lsf.nu/ipsc

Enjoy!

Roger aka Tvesala