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• ccandreva
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 19, 2011 - 05:55 AM

  In terms of how to upgrade, it should be possible, but due to the decision to cut all ties with the PostNuke past, it won't be easy.
  
  You'll need to dig up some old versions of PostNuke, it looks like something before version 0.76 . I'm almost positive the old versions supported upgraded from PHP-nuke. From there, you'll need to upgrade to 0.76, then to a Zikula 1.0, then finally to Zikula 1.2 .
  
  When Postnuke was a fork of phpnuke, the upgrade was somewhat natural. At this point, much of the code has little in common with the phpnuke days. I'll hazard that most devs at this point have never seen phpnuke code, so any conversion possibilities would involve writing such things from scratch.
  
  Of course, the other obvious problem is that PHP-nuke itself I'm sure has evolved. Those old versions of Postnuke would upgrade from a similarly old version of PHP-nuke and may not work against a modern version.
  
  You'll probably have to sit down and see exactly what modules need to be converted and what can be redone.

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• HalbrookTech
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 19, 2011 - 08:30 AM

  Might be a job for MUTransport to look in to adding :)

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• slam
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 19, 2011 - 10:24 PM

  The link the OP provided is to a site already running PostNuke & PNphpBB2. So, he seems to talk about another site. In this case it really depends on the content of the site mentioned, but in most cases it might be much easier to start with a clean 1.2.6 install, add the modules needed, and import the data from phpNuke. Yes, you will need to adapt the database dump to fit Zikula and it's modules, but after all this will be less work and less possible problems than a multi-step conversion and upgrade. Add that it will end up with a seriously supportable and upgradable system.
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• mesteele101
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 20, 2011 - 02:36 AM

  Wow, all that work to migrate to 1.2.6 when 1.3 is right around the corner, and another migration will ensue. Hopefully anyone contemplating either a CMS conversion, or a new site using Zikula waits for the new code (1.3) to be released and build on that.
  
  I get a really weird vibe from that site and the OP. I don't think it's a legitimate topic, possibly spam related.

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• HalbrookTech
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 20, 2011 - 05:07 AM

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  Wow, all that work to migrate to 1.2.6 when 1.3 is right around the corner, and another migration will ensue. Hopefully anyone contemplating either a CMS conversion, or a new site using Zikula waits for the new code (1.3) to be released and build on that.

  
  If it's a NEW site, then yes start at 1.3, if it's a site in PostNuke, better to start the process in to 1.2 now, and then to 1.3. If it's from another platform, then all bets are off as to the best route. I think 1.3 is stable enough now to start playing with the process at least.
  
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• drak
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 20, 2011 - 05:56 AM

  Depending on the size of the site and the content it can often be much faster to just recreate the site. You've got the content already.
  
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• pheski
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 20, 2011 - 06:25 AM

  drak

  Depending on the size of the site and the content it can often be much faster to just recreate the site. You've got the content already.
  
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  I had a site using PN 0.74 and I couldn't upgrade it because it was hosted on an intranet where they were not upgrading PHP or MySQL. It had considerable content: years of event and alum updates, nearly 1000 photos with captions in albums related to events, Class business (minutes and other documents). I didn't have shell access and was fearful that the transfer would be a disaster.
  
  As it turned out, installing 1.2.4 and then scraping data and uploading it was pretty easy. Some I could do by getting stuff out of the database, but mostly I simply copied and pasted.
  
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• TakeIT2
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 21, 2011 - 01:04 PM

  Hmmm, to think where this thread has been.... Anyhow.
  
  That site is one hell of a hodge podge. if there wasn't a language barrier, a mistake about the Nuke or PN thing, mesteele101, I could see why you might think the original post might be spam; so, if we are guessing, I think someone inherited or was asked to spec the conversion/amalgamation of all the scraps and fixes that site presents.
  
  It is an interesting problem/challenge which I think only further speculation on our part would be warranted if the original poster was still in the conversation.

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