Hi All,
Not been around for a while, different projects and fatherhood have kept me away from J! and VM for a long time now.
I am back again to complete a beta transition of an existing J! / VM site for 1 of my clients. The client was one of the first J! / VM complete installs way back in the early days of 2005.
He currently runs J! 1.011 & VM 1.06 and has almost 17,000 products online. So in need of an upgrade......
So the brief is: To install & configure -
- J! 1.5 - (RC3)
- VM 1.1 - (Nightly build 01/11)
- All tweaks / hacks / modifications of existing site to be transferred
- Have full SEO urls
- Be 100% quicker on DB calls and site load timings
Sounds like a simple enough shopping list, but from painful experience, this is going to be a tough nut to crack.
Along the road I will share in this post, the problems and the solutions that I encounter.
@Soeren - Im amazed you have stuck so long with this project and find the time to complete the other extensions from your camp - 150% respect
So time to get cracking. Wish me luck please.
2xs
ED :- The clients current site - www.trollandtoad-europe.com (http://www.trollandtoad-europe.com)
Good luck.
If you encounter any problems please report over at Quality and Testing board (http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?board=61.0)
Don't use J! 1.5 RC3, lot has changed specially legacy.php file which is required for VM 1.1, try latest nightly build 9297 (I am using)
Keep us all updated, sounds like you are pushing ahead with what everyone else with Joomla 1.5 wants to do. I look forward to reading your experiences and following the site progress