[TYPO3-ttnews] Antw: tt_news 2.5.x to 3.0.x migration

[Joe Berger]

Hi Rupert,

it's great that tt_news is developed by you again. I just tried to upgrade
from 2.5.2 to the newest 3.0. I got the problem that I cant't see the
configuration options and the update script in the extension manager because
the page is empty when I click on News. This is the link:

http://www.cachacasalinas.de/typo3/mod/tools/em/index.php?CMD[showExt]=tt_ne
ws&SET[singleDetails]=info 


I cleaned the cache.

Kind regards

Joe

>>> Rupert Germann<rupi at gmx.li> schrieb am 09.04.2009 um 19:54:
> Hi,
> 
> as you might have seen I committed several updates during the last days to

> http://forge.typo3.org/repositories/show/extension-tt_news 
> mostly related to the updater script.
> 
> the updater script (class.ext_update.php) didn't appear in the extmanager
> menu for years because it was made to help you updating tt_news from
1.0.x
> to 1.5 or so. 
> Quite un-useful in these days and so I decided to replace it with a newer
> one which helps to fix the most common migration problems when updating
an
> existing tt_news installation to tt_news 3.0.0.
> 
> These problems are:
> 1. broken relations to static TS-templates: I moved the folder "static/"
> from the extension main directory to "/pi/static/". The static templates
in
> sys_template records are stored as paths, so tt_news will not find its
> default TS-settings anymore after the update.
> --> The updater can fix this by replacing the old path with the new one
in
> all template records.
> 
> 2. moved fields between flexform sheets: I moved some fields in the
flexform
> from one sheet to another for better usability. Fieldnames are stored
with
> their sheetname in flexforms, means: the old values of these fields are
not
> found anymore. The moved fields are:  pages (startingpoint) and recursive
> (moved from sheet general to sheet misc) and listLimit and noPageBrowser
> (moved from sheet misc to sheet template).
> --> the updater can fix this by moving the value from the old field to
the
> new one (only done, if the new field is empty)
> 
> 3. non existing html-templates in flexforms: I first implemented this as
a
> local debugger function to reset the not longer existing file
> tt_news_v2_template.html from the template field in Flexforms. But after
> some small enhancements I think, now it's generally useful because it
> checks if a template which is configured in flexforms actually exists in
> the filesystem.
> --> if not, the updater offers to reset those values. 
> 
> 
> so far so good, but you can easyly imagine that I could not test this on
> many installations. it were 3 actually and it worked quite well.
> but the thrilling thing is: will this work for many other installations,
> too?
> 
> I need some testers which have a) a tt_news 2.5.x site and b) a
testserver
> to copy this site on and try the updater.
> 
> ATTENTION:
> the updater script manipulates the tables tt_content and sys_templates,
so
> making a sql dump of these tables BEFORE testing the updater would be a
> good idea. The updater has no "crtl-z" ;-)
> 
> 
> you can see the complete changelog here:
>
http://forge.typo3.org/repositories/entry/extension-tt_news/trunk/ChangeLog

> 
> 
> greets
> rupert