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@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 12:32 PM To: support@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.
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