[support] How to Fix a Messed Up Site

[Steve Kessler]

What are they looking to sell. If all they need are memberships or event
payments that can all be done with Civi. 

>From my readining about eCommerce and Ubercart some of them use the same
table names. I don't see why you could not delete both modules and then
install Ubercart and see what happens. That way the only data recreation is
for the product specifications. Is there any order history to be worried
about. 

In terms of the overall upgrade to 6 - is this a stock theme and are there
upgrade paths to 6 for the modules in use. Sites that are done wrong in 5
can be a problem to move to 6. I have ran into that trying to move my first
attempt at Drupal from 5 to 6.

Fred, I know you know this but I will say backup everything before trying
this. 

Thanks,
Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Jones [mailto:fredthejonester at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 12:32 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] How to Fix a Messed Up Site

I am given now a D5 site with eCommerce and Ubercart both installed
but deactivated. The original developer still has a dev version
somewhere where Ubercart is activated and appears to be working. The
owners now want me to provide them with ecommerce capability. I have
read that eCommerce and Ubercart are not compatible. The site owners
furthermore want to upgrade to D6 and also the latest version of
CiviCRM (which anyway requires D6).

But when I explained that it may be necessary to rebuild the site in
D6 and then export/import the data (nodes and users) and that will
take a day or two of work, they have asked if there is any other way
to provide ecommerce functionality more simply. Aside from having paid
once for this site to an incompetent developer, they happen to be on a
very limited budget (they are an NPO).

So, any other suggestions?

I could just turn on Ubercart and hope it works I suppose. Heh heh.
I'm not too thrilled about that however.

Thanks.
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