Thursday, July 20, 2006
Performancing.com Upgraded to Drupal 4.7.2
"At the time of writing, you'll notice that the author pictures in posts have gone AWOL, and i've no idea why, but am working on it. If that's the only thing that went screwey when transitioning from 4.6.8 to 4.7.2 though, it's pretty damn good.
The move to Drupal 4.7.2 has taken about a week of coding, and really i'd rather have been doing other things, but if we don't upgrade, we'll not be able to use some of the fancy new features in 4.7 --- and besides, the dev list are already discussing 4.8, so it's high time we got it together before we did much more work on Partners.
Forms API -- the Biggest Nightmare
By far the worst thing with this upgrade was painstakingly going through all of the Metrics code and updating to the new Drupal forms api. It's so much easier to do this stuff if you wrote the original code yourself!
It all seems to be working well though, but of course if you spot oddness in anything, do let me know.
Odd Characters?
I had a hell of a time updating the DB. For
