Upgrading or Fresh Install; Migration Problem

Originally Posted by hristov@iocc.com

What is the laston table used for? Does it need to be updated with the new userid? I guess it would not hart to have it updated ? But is it necessary? Would it be recreated?

It gets recreated, don't bother converting it.

[Regs]

hristov,

You weren't being rude, in fact, I stopped myself from posting in this thread about 20 times the last couple of days to support your 'position'. It was obvious to me that you spent quite a bit of time trying to build a solution for yourself and didn't deserve the treatment that you got.

Omegatron,

Shame on you.

~Regs.

[Chuck S]

hristov,

Not a problem at all. I dont get offended too easy. I got your PM I am glad you finally tried replicating things to test your code. Let me know how it goes.

The only tables you need to worry about are the comments and photos and of course rewriting the files.

Regs,

There is nothing rude in telling someone that I dont have time to look at their customcode. In fact I gave suggestions in the same post of how he should test it.

[Regs]

I have no problem helping someone with an issue that may not necessarily be a support issue as long as they are polite.

To me, that was an insinuation that Hristov was not being polite. You gave suggestions alright but only after beating his head against the wall 20 times

It would be nice if sometimes you guys could step back and realize that you have very capable customers here that can contribute to the further enhancement of this software rather than alienate them every chance you get. Hristov was attempting to address a problem that has been brought up upteen times and stated he would have no problems contributing what he came up with.

The fact that hristov had to apologise for something he never did and for your response to be "Not a problem at all. I dont get offended too easy." is insulting. The least you could do is acknowledge your part in the frustrations exhibited by hristov here.

~Regs.

[Chuck S]

Regs

If you post a thread and say I wrote some code how would I go about testing it and I replied that I did not have time to look at it but this is how you test it. There is nothing to get mad about or nothing I am at fault for. If you reread this thread you see Don reiternated the exact steps needed in his second post. I have repeated those steps over also and also suggested to test his self written script by duplicating installs. I was attacked for responding that I did not have time to look at someone's personal hand written code. That was a simple as it gets.

Since this post has been answered and we have both shared out opinions I see no point in this contiued discussion.

[hristov@iocc.com]

Here is a revised version of the script I posted earlier:

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What this does is change a PhotoPost's user_id from $old_id to $new_id. This would be useful later on by another script that merges a UBB.Threads account with the existing PhotoPost account. Let's say a customer has an account in UBB.Thread with username "ubb_user" and user_id of "1234" and account in PhotoPost with username "pp_user" and user_id of "1111" then I can execute the function
change_all(1111, 1234, 'ubb_user');
which would update his PhotoPost profile with the new username and user_id so integration with Ubb.Threads works.

At least that's the plan. If somebody think that there may be a problem with my plan, please let me know now.

[Chuck S]

I take it replicating the databases and running a test install helped weed out any issues

Feel Free to write up a hack if you choose and post over at http://www.photopostdev.com

[hristov@iocc.com]

Does anybody know anything about this.

Originally Posted by hristov@iocc.com

How current is this.
http://www.threadsdev.com/forum/show.../o/all/fpart/1
He is talking about 4.1-4.5. I noticed quite a few changes in the DB since 4.5. Would this work with 4.8 or do I need to watch for anything?

[Chuck S]

I am the author.

You do not need this in 4.8 as this automatically pulls the styles.

You can use this though to put Photopost on the main forum page

http://www.threadsdev.com/forum/show...//fpart/1/vc/1