I am about to upgrade and redesign a very old zenphoto
I have decided the best thing is a clean start with the latest zenphoto and re-skin. My question is how can I best transfer the basic gallery data. I only need the admin inserted image titles, and descriptions.
Would this be the route
- upload old site albums to new albums folder
- export from old site via phpmyadmin ( id, filename, filetitle, description)
- delete the table rows ( id, filename, filetitle, description) from the new install and re-import old data.
Do I need to employ someone with advanced sql skills to sort this out or 'should' something like this work?
any guidance much appreciated..thanks
If it is just albums and images you should be able to just upgrade. However, it is recommended to do this in steps by minor-major versions (those are the 1.x.x ones in Zenphoto's counting).
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/installation-and-upgrading#release-number-info
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/installation-and-upgrading#upgrading
You cannot (should not) import data from an old install to a new one directly as the db structure changed a bit.
Hi Acrylian
That is what I wanted to know. Upgrading is just too time consuming for such an old and broken messed around site and the new design is very different.
I also want to get rid of all the junk that has built up.
hmmm looks like i have to do manual updating to the gallery. Thanks for your help though that saved me time messing around in phpmyadmin.