[support] upgrade from Drupal 4.7 to 5.3

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello, Will,

RE: "

causing the client's 
site to go down as I scramble to get someone to help me with an upgrade 
that I can't pull off."



You should definitely do this work on a test site first, prior to 
porting the upgrades to the live site. This way, your client always has 
a presence, and you can test your work at your leisure knowing that his 
web presence is intact.

Cheers,

Bill
will hall wrote:
> Hi all, i need to upgrade a template for a client from 4.7 to 5.3.
>
> Swapping old versions of modules with 5.3-compatible ones is pretty 
> straightforward. however, I am not super-confident with php, and this 
> page has me worried:
>
> http://drupal.org/node/64292
>
> Can I reasonably expect that if I go through all the template files in 
> /themes/clienttemplate, and replace any of the functions the upgrade 
> node says are new, that the upgrade will work?
>
> what i want to avoid is getting in over my head, or causing the client's 
> site to go down as I scramble to get someone to help me with an upgrade 
> that I can't pull off. Also, i need to give the client a reasonable 
> estimate of how much work the upgrade will take.
>
> thanks!
>
> will
>
>   


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