Best Practices

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This the 3rd in a series about readying your plugins for PHP 5.3, and for PHP 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6.

NOTE: This post assumes some pretty solid PHP knowledge, because all the changes listed will require adapting your code to find a new way to do whatever it was doing before.

NOTE: This is not the complete official list of changes. I've edited this list down ...

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NOTE: UPDATED INFORMATION ABOUT UPGRADING CAN BE FOUND HERE:
https://docs.zen-cart.com/user/upgrading/


TL;DR / Executive Summary:
Are you looking for a quick way to understand best practices when upgrading your Zen Cart site? The easiest way to view it is as "a rebuild while keeping all the existing data."

This article contains 3 sections:
1. What an upgrade is, and what it is not.
2. An overview of how to rebuild a site using ...