How bad will it be?

[DanAllkins]

Looks like I'm out of date..

How bad is it going to be to upgrade from V 1.3.0.1 to the new 1.3.7???

[kuroi]

Looks like I'm out of date..

How bad is it going to be to upgrade from V 1.3.0.1 to the new 1.3.7???

Generally not too bad as long as you aren't using lots of add-ins, haven't customised the code excessively and have used the over-ride system wherever possible. Nothing like the challenge of upgrading for 1.2.x to 1.3.

[DanAllkins]

we have a few add-ins like the royal mail plug in, but we didn't use the override system so our template is the default template with a few pages with eddited code, but not to much, and we are using the default CSS files

[kuroi]

No matter. It's not too late. I recommend using a file comparison tool like WinMerge (open source) to compare your current site files with a clean download of 1.3.0.1. Then separate out the changed files to create a template. It's a bit of extra work, but at least you will know where you stand and be well set up for this and future upgrades.

[bobdog]

No worries,

I just did that exactly on a site. I went from 1.3.0.1 to 1.3.7 and it went well. I did do some custom coding and overwrites, and I was finished in one hour total.

What I did was put it in a sandbox first, make an sql backup of old site, added that to the new sandbox site, and then traced down the custom overwrites I did in my original folder.

[DanAllkins]

Sorry... whats sandbox?

[Merlinpa1969]

just a seperate folder

[kuroi]

As Merlin says, a separate folder, where you can play around, or as we grown-ups like to call it, test.

[DanAllkins]

I get you now. haha

As I have backed up the 'live' database' when I restored it do I have to put the new store 'offline' then restore it?

[DanAllkins]

its ok... found my answer for the database in the FAQ... I'll keep you posted if I need help...

Cheers guys

Dan