Starting from Scratch

[joecoolio66]

We're running v1.3.1 and we've been reluctant to upgrade as our shop is working great... but with the advent of 1.5 and all the new great modules we can't install, we want to go for it.

 

Here's the thing however, I don't think upgrading our 1.3 version is easy (or possibly not possible) to 1.5. With that being said I think what we'd like to do is install v 1.5 and import customers (and history), and products from our old version. We can then look at our add on modules from a module to module basis.

 

But... can we easily export customers and products from v 1.3 and import them into v 1.5? That is the question I'm posing here. We'd like suggestions on the easiest way to perform this.

 

However... if someone thinks upgrading should be easier (and possible) and has some guidelines for this, please let us know

 

Thanks!

Edited October 2, 2012 by joecoolio66 (see edit history)

[Rhapsody]

I'd try and upgrade on a copy of your shop that can be easily setup per below. You may want to at least install and activate a theme that is know to be compliant to 1.5 before the test upgrade.

• copy your live Prestashop directory - to something like /shoptest/
  
• copy your mysql database to another name, but keep the same username and password
  
• edit shoptest/config/settings.inc.php and change to something like
  
  • define('__PS_BASE_URI__', '/shoptest/');
    
  • define('_DB_NAME_', 'shop_temp_db_name_goes_here');
    

  [*]Edit /shoptest/config/config.inc.php to enable display of errors and sql debug

  • /* Debug only */
    @ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
    define('_PS_DEBUG_SQL_', true);
    

  [*]Enter the back office of the Prestashop copy you just setup e.g. /shoptest/admin_whatever_admin_directory_you_have

You can now go to the BO and try the One-Click upograde, then start to see how well the upgrade works and document any items that break and need to be fixed.