I am currently in the process of testing out Joomla 1.6 and just got the latest k2 that supports 1.6. My question is anyone have any ideas/tools/thoughts on how I may go about exporting my k2 articles and categories for Joomla 1.5 and converting it to the 1.6 site?

 

Thanks for any input,

Jesse

Bufff I have the same dilemma. I just think in all the content i have in my site and i just tremble... What should be done? upgrade first joomla to 1.6 and then k2 to 2.5 or what? It will keep all the content, images and so... I know this is just a beta but this question of migration keep me worried

I have the same dilemma...

any tip?

I havent read anything here about moving k2 from 1.5 to 1.6, but you might try this

First backup your 1.5 site.AkeebaBackup

install the 2.5 svn on your 1.5 site and test it to be sure the items categories, etc are there

If they are use phpmyadmin and dump all the K2_ files

Set up a new 1.6 test site and install the svn

use phpmyadmin to pull all the K2_tables into it or import them one at a time

I assume(dangerous) that the tables are the same since the same svn creates them in both 1.5 and 1.6

Remember the quote where you downloaded the svn "Feeling comfortable working with software under development?"

My guess is that there will have to be a release of 2.5 before you will see any official comments on this

 

 

So... 2.5 svn works on joomla 1.5? I'm gonna test in a wamp to avoid disasters :-D. Also, i will sahre this in k2 spanish community!

What kind of release-blocking bugs are in 2.5? If I install 2.5 SVN to Joomla 1.6, will it be painless to update to the final when it comes?

Also, I wonder if jUpgrade extension support might be added to K2 1.5 version to help migrations: www.matware.com.ar/

Thanks for the input. So far I was able to take my 1.5 articles and categories and just copy them into 1.6 that sort of worked except for the user linking, so right now I started over with a clean slate and figuring out my user migration. I then think I will try William's suggestion so that the tables match.

 

Side note AkeebaBackup is a must for any Joomla installation.

I would be very interested in knowing how that went, Jesse - did you encounter any further issues/problems or did it go smoothly from there? Did you get your users relinked?

I think it is a good question for Joomlaworks.

I think i saw something like k2 migrator on one of Fotis presintations...

But I can wrong

Sorry for the long delay Carolyn but I had to abandon the project for a while and I do not remember how far I got. However I am starting the project back up and will be more then happy to supply the steps I figure out. That is there is no official way yet.

I installed svn in a wamp and it worked for 1.5. The problem is when you want to migrate to 1.6 or 1.7. If you try with jugrade it doesnt work because it have no support for k2 yet, so you cannot migrate categories, users, items, tags at the moment...

I've tried and tried with Jupgrade, with having Joomla 1.5.23 and K2 2.4.1 and the Start Upgrade button does nothing - absolutely nothing - in Chrome, FF and IE because of some issue with MooTools, despite the fact that I have MooTools Upgrade latest and greatest installed and set to 1.2 for both front & back end, all browsers show that it is v1.11 - ugh.

 

On the Jupgrade dev's site it says that it supports K2 now, but that does me no good since it just doesn't work for me at all... and the developer is about as communicative as the K2 developers are.

 

What did everyone else use to upgrade to Joomla 1.6? I'm open to any suggestions at this point, I am so sick of  trying to get Jupgrade to work - I was actually told on their forum that perhaps it was a good idea to start drinking :D

Working on this....please see pm

Maybe it's better to hold on joomla 1.5? Now starting a new project and don't know - where to go(