By hoelterhof on
I maintain the web-page of the Chair of Educational Media and Knowledge Management of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (http://www.mediendidaktik.de). Serval weeks ago i made the update from Drupal 4.6.6 to Drupal 4.7.2. I encountered difficulties and would like to report on them and the solutions i found. Perhaps this is a helpful suggestion for someone.
- At first, there was a big problem with the character-sets. All german umlauts where shown as cryptic characters. The only way i found to convert the encoding used in the database was the unix-command "tcs" (whitch can be installed on debian-linux with apt-get). I made a dump from my database and converted it like this:
tcs -t 8859-1 drupal-466-latin1.sql > drupal-472-utf8.sql
After that, i changed all "CHARSET=latin1" to "CHARSET=utf8" and deleted all "COLLATION"-specifications in the dump. Now, i was able to install this dump in a new database and the umlauts where shown correct. - It seems to me that in drupal-4.7 you can't use functions in the php-snipplets. I changed all snipplets to not use functions.
- We are using the module flexinode to create own content-type. Unfortunately the field-type "book" isn't supported in flexinode 4.7. So it is necessary to delete all book-fields in the flexinodes?
- All submissions in webforms created with the webform-module where lost.
- Some files disappeared. I copied the files-table from drupal4.6 again to drupal4.7 after updating.
