Bootcamp Lucerne, CH 2008 - Migration

www.joomlatools.org Migration Joomla! 1.0 => Joomla! 1.5 Joomla! BootCamp, Luzern May 31st 2008 Joomla! is a registered trademark of Open Source Matters, Inc.

www.joomlatools.org Mathias Verraes DOCman Lead Developer http://www.joomlatools.org Joomlatools Nooku Senior Architect http://www.nooku.org Nooku Senior Architect http://www.nooku.org Joomla! is a registered trademark of Open Source Matters, Inc.

www.joomlatools.org Migration
The philosophical bit
The theoretical bit
The bit where we actually get stuff done
The bit where you ask questions and it turns out my explanation was way too hard.
Joomla! is a registered trademark of Open Source Matters, Inc.

www.joomlatools.org 1. About Migration
What?
Why?
Why not?

www.joomlatools.org What is migration?
Migration <> upgrade

www.joomlatools.org Why migrate?
Better UI
Better documentation
Better code, more stable
Support for J!1.0 will end one day
3PD's will follow

www.joomlatools.org 1.0 vs 1.5 extensions (2008-01-21) May 2008: 24% Joomla! is a registered trademark of Open Source Matters, Inc.

www.joomlatools.org Why not?
Can take a lot of work
Risk of errors
Hard to test
Got 3PD extensions?
Port your own extensions?
==> Do you really need it?

www.joomlatools.org The theoretical bit
Preparing
Legacy plugin
Backlink plugin
Data from core: com_migrator
Data from extensions: ETL plugins
Templates

www.joomlatools.org Preparing
Clean up!
Test locally!
Document steps!
Other options: Manual migration, Feeds, ...

www.joomlatools.org Legacy plugin
What is it?
Performance
extensions.joomla.org

www.joomlatools.org Legacy plugin Joomla! is a registered trademark of Open Source Matters, Inc.

www.joomlatools.org Backlink plugin
Old links from 1.0 -> Redirect 301 to new URL
com_migrator

www.joomlatools.org Refactoring
Convert extensions to native 1.5
XML manifest
API
MVC

www.joomlatools.org Data from core extensies
Using com_migrator

www.joomlatools.org Data from 3PD extensions
Using ETL plugins

www.joomlatools.org Templates
Backwards compatible (legacy)

www.joomlatools.org Let's do it!
Core migratie
Create ETL plugins

www.joomlatools.org More info
Migration guide: http://docs.joomla.org/Migrating_from_1.0.x_to_1.5_Stable
Help site: http://help.joomla.org/
Workgroup blogs: http://dev.joomla.org

Bootcamp Lucerne, CH 2008 - Migration

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