I have an older site in D5 that I am working on upgrading to D6. Unfortunately, some modules that were used in the old site no longer exist (addnode for example). What will happen when I upgrade without this module? Katie
It depends on how instrumental the module was in the site. It probably goes without saying, but make sure you make backups of the file system and database. Drupal updates aren't really 'easy' to do. Sometimes it's easier to just recreate the site (not always, though). Joel From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Katie Legere Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 8:10 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] question about upgrading I have an older site in D5 that I am working on upgrading to D6. Unfortunately, some modules that were used in the old site no longer exist (addnode for example). What will happen when I upgrade without this module? Katie
I'm going to try it locally with backups of everything and see.... wish me luck! Katie Legere Systems Coordinator, Queen's University Library Queen's University x75297 ________________________________________ From: support-bounces@drupal.org [support-bounces@drupal.org] on behalf of Joel Willers [joel.willers@sigler.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:13 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] question about upgrading It depends on how instrumental the module was in the site. It probably goes without saying, but make sure you make backups of the file system and database. Drupal updates aren't really 'easy' to do. Sometimes it's easier to just recreate the site (not always, though). Joel From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Katie Legere Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 8:10 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] question about upgrading I have an older site in D5 that I am working on upgrading to D6. Unfortunately, some modules that were used in the old site no longer exist (addnode for example). What will happen when I upgrade without this module? Katie -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
When upgrading it is best to do some clean up on the older site so that you aren't using things that are not supported on the new version. In other words you have to think about how the new site will work. You should be looking at going to D7 which in your case requires a brief excursion through D6 if you go the upgrade path to conversion rather than the migrate path. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Katie Legere <legerek@queensu.ca> wrote:
I have an older site in D5 that I am working on upgrading to D6. Unfortunately, some modules that were used in the old site no longer exist (addnode for example). What will happen when I upgrade without this module?
Katie
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I suspect that there will be a complete redesign in another year so I'm going to use D7 for that - I'm in the excursion mode now to see how much harm that does. Perhaps we'll end up doing nothing until the redesign and starting more or less fresh. This is a good learning opportunity though... Katie ________________________________ From: support-bounces@drupal.org [support-bounces@drupal.org] on behalf of Walt Daniels [wdlists@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:45 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] question about upgrading When upgrading it is best to do some clean up on the older site so that you aren't using things that are not supported on the new version. In other words you have to think about how the new site will work. You should be looking at going to D7 which in your case requires a brief excursion through D6 if you go the upgrade path to conversion rather than the migrate path. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Katie Legere <legerek@queensu.ca<mailto:legerek@queensu.ca>> wrote: I have an older site in D5 that I am working on upgrading to D6. Unfortunately, some modules that were used in the old site no longer exist (addnode for example). What will happen when I upgrade without this module? Katie -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Katie Legere wrote:
I have an older site in D5 that I am working on upgrading to D6. Unfortunately, some modules that were used in the old site no longer exist (addnode for example). What will happen when I upgrade without this module?
Make sure your core and contrib modules are at the latest version of D5 before moving to D6. The same is true for D6 to D7. Also make use of the devel module and the coder module if you need to convert a module you are using. And refer to the http://drupal.org/update/modules/5/6 documentation. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd
Thanks, that's useful. My immediate issue seemed, once I updated the database, to be that the theme was custom buitl and doesn't exist. It's a sub theme of Zen though so I am going through it line by line as suggested in hopes of 'updating' it to 6. Katie ________________________________________ From: support-bounces@drupal.org [support-bounces@drupal.org] on behalf of Earnie Boyd [earnie@users.sourceforge.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:35 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] question about upgrading On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Katie Legere wrote:
I have an older site in D5 that I am working on upgrading to D6. Unfortunately, some modules that were used in the old site no longer exist (addnode for example). What will happen when I upgrade without this module?
Make sure your core and contrib modules are at the latest version of D5 before moving to D6. The same is true for D6 to D7. Also make use of the devel module and the coder module if you need to convert a module you are using. And refer to the http://drupal.org/update/modules/5/6 documentation. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
When we went from 5 to 6 our zen theme needed very little, just replaced it with the 6 version and added in a few special theming tricks in the template.php file, fixed with some api changes. A few of the tpl files also had some special code that needed fixing. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Katie Legere <legerek@queensu.ca> wrote:
Thanks, that's useful. My immediate issue seemed, once I updated the database, to be that the theme was custom buitl and doesn't exist. It's a sub theme of Zen though so I am going through it line by line as suggested in hopes of 'updating' it to 6.
Katie
________________________________________ From: support-bounces@drupal.org [support-bounces@drupal.org] on behalf of Earnie Boyd [earnie@users.sourceforge.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:35 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] question about upgrading
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Katie Legere wrote:
I have an older site in D5 that I am working on upgrading to D6. Unfortunately, some modules that were used in the old site no longer exist (addnode for example). What will happen when I upgrade without this module?
Make sure your core and contrib modules are at the latest version of D5 before moving to D6. The same is true for D6 to D7. Also make use of the devel module and the coder module if you need to convert a module you are using. And refer to the http://drupal.org/update/modules/5/6 documentation.
-- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
That's heartening... There were a lots of 'hacks' in the original that I'm working through. i'm trying to have the user experience fairly seamless... Katie Sent from my iPad On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:33 PM, "Walt Daniels" <wdlists@gmail.com<mailto:wdlists@gmail.com>> wrote: When we went from 5 to 6 our zen theme needed very little, just replaced it with the 6 version and added in a few special theming tricks in the template.php file, fixed with some api changes. A few of the tpl files also had some special code that needed fixing. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Katie Legere <legerek@queensu.ca<mailto:legerek@queensu.ca>> wrote: Thanks, that's useful. My immediate issue seemed, once I updated the database, to be that the theme was custom buitl and doesn't exist. It's a sub theme of Zen though so I am going through it line by line as suggested in hopes of 'updating' it to 6. Katie ________________________________________ From: support-bounces@drupal.org<mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org> [support-bounces@drupal.org<mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org>] on behalf of Earnie Boyd [earnie@users.sourceforge.net<mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net>] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:35 PM To: support@drupal.org<mailto:support@drupal.org> Subject: Re: [support] question about upgrading On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Katie Legere wrote:
I have an older site in D5 that I am working on upgrading to D6. Unfortunately, some modules that were used in the old site no longer exist (addnode for example). What will happen when I upgrade without this module?
Make sure your core and contrib modules are at the latest version of D5 before moving to D6. The same is true for D6 to D7. Also make use of the devel module and the coder module if you need to convert a module you are using. And refer to the http://drupal.org/update/modules/5/6 documentation. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Maybe use one that is close to the custom one already based on Zen instead. You can search drupal.org/project/themes for zen to find them all. Earnie On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Katie Legere <legerek@queensu.ca> wrote:
Thanks, that's useful. My immediate issue seemed, once I updated the database, to be that the theme was custom buitl and doesn't exist. It's a sub theme of Zen though so I am going through it line by line as suggested in hopes of 'updating' it to 6.
Katie
________________________________________ From: support-bounces@drupal.org [support-bounces@drupal.org] on behalf of Earnie Boyd [earnie@users.sourceforge.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:35 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] question about upgrading
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Katie Legere wrote:
I have an older site in D5 that I am working on upgrading to D6. Unfortunately, some modules that were used in the old site no longer exist (addnode for example). What will happen when I upgrade without this module?
Make sure your core and contrib modules are at the latest version of D5 before moving to D6. The same is true for D6 to D7. Also make use of the devel module and the coder module if you need to convert a module you are using. And refer to the http://drupal.org/update/modules/5/6 documentation.
-- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
-- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd
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