SOLVED - Joomla 1.5 to 2.5 Migration Tool Instructions

[ozneilau]

Hi,

Thanks for your excellent migration tool which I started using today. It looks more complicated than it is. Might I suggest some clearer instructions will help?! Maybe like this:

This PHP script assumes you have used the jUpgrade or SP Upgrade tool or similar to migrate from 1.5 to 2.5 to preserve user ids.
First update JEvents on source and target websites to the latest JEvents version, and back up both websites to be safe!
Download the script from http://www.jevents.net/downloads/catego ... -migration and unzip.
In phpMyAdmin or similar, remove all the Joomla 2.5 jevents tables:

j25_jevents_categories
j25_jevents_exception
j25_jevents_icsfile
j25_jevents_repbyday
j25_jevents_repetition
j25_jevents_rrule
j25_jevents_vevdetail
j25_jevents_vevent
j25_jev_defaults
j25_jev_users

In phpMyAdmin or similar, add read permission for the Joomla 2.5 database user to the Joomla 1.5 database (if a different database).
Install the managed people, managed locations and any other jevents club addons (if you are using them) on your Joomla 2.5 site.
Edit the upgradejevents.php file and change line 11 to reflect the relative path of the destination website:

e.g. if source is http://www.websitename.com and destination is http://www.websitename.com/j25, amend line 11 to: define("NEWSITEPATH", "j25");
e.g. if source is http://www.websitename.com/j15 and destination is http://www.websitename.com, amend line 11 to: define("NEWSITEPATH", "..");

Upload the upgradejevents.php file to the root of your Joomla 1.5 installation.
Log in to the backend of Joomla 2.5 as a Super Admin.
Run the script by calling it in your browser e.g. http://www.j15site.com/upgradejevents.php.
All being well the script will migrate the data, creating categories automatically with default permissions and show:

migrated categories
migrated main tables
updated category references
reset access levels
migrated user permissions
migrated categories

Check your events and categories to see that they have migrated across correctly.
You may need to set up JEvents configuration manually on the destination website as the script does not migrate configuration settings.

Thanks,

Neil.

[Tonyp]

Hello,

Thank you for you detailed information. I will add this .

Our plan was to implement the script within the JEvents build it's self so then JUpgrade automatically migrates it without needing to run the migration script. But as users have been coping well it has been a lower priority.

Regards
Tony

[ozneilau]

Excellent!

Thanks Tony and keep up the good work!

Neil

[nhwi]

Hi there,
When I run the script, I get this:
migrated categories
migrated main tables
updated category references
reset access levels
migrated user permissions
migrated categories

But nothing shows up in the new calendar.

I did have to uncomment line 129 - 144 (// now do colours and admins!) cause I got an error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/jupgrade/upgradejevents.php on line 131
So when I uncomment it then it seems fine but nothing is migrated.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

[Tonyp]

Hello,

You have placed the file in the wrong directory for a start it should be in the Joomla 1.5 directory.

Can you then try it?