In Migrating from Joomla! 1.5 to Joomla! 2.5, Jen Kramer walks through moving a typical site to Joomla! 2.5 using two different tools, jUpgrade and SP Upgrade. jUpgrade and SP Upgrade migrate the 1.5 database content to 2.5 automatically, which maintains your data and settings. Jen shows how to download and configure the tools; how to adjust modules, images, and templates that may have shifted during the move; and how to update an old custom template for Joomla! 2.5 and fix any styling issues postmigration.
Note: jUpgrade is free, while SP Upgrade has a small fee.
Note: jUpgrade is free, while SP Upgrade has a small fee.
Topics include:
- Understanding the differences between Joomla! 1.5 and 2.5
- Talking to a client about the migration, plus bulletproof reasons why they'll want to move their site
- Downloading, installing, and configuring jUpgrade and SP Upgrade
- Reassigning modules to their correct positions
- Fixing page headers
- Reinstalling third-party extensions
- Correcting custom templates' XML and index.php files
- Testing the template
- Configuring Global Configuration
- Launching the site
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Frequently asked questions
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about Migrating from Joomla! 1.5 to Joomla! 2.5.
- Q: After following along with the exercise files, all has gone well until I installed JCE. When I did this my control panel on the backend came up with the following "strict standards" error:
( ! ) Strict standards: Non-static method WFEditor::getInstance() should
not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in
C:\wamp\www\administrator\components\com_jce\models\model.php on line 112
Please advise. I looked for a way of uninstalling JCE and could not find one. The exercise site seems to work quite well otherwise, although I can't change the profile of JCE as instructed because of similar messages throughout the JCE profile. - A: Anytime you receive an error about "strict standards" when work with WAMP (any additional messaging doesn't matter), please apply the following fix. This fix is also described in the Joomla! 3 Essential Training Chapter 11 video, "Turning off WAMP error reporting."
Because the error reporting is an issue with WAMP and not Joomla!, this fix works for Joomla! 1.6, 1.7, 2.5, and 3.0, as well as later versions of Joomla.
1. In WAMP, find the icon in the system tray and click it.
2. Choose PHP - php.ini from the list.
3. Search the php.ini file for the following line:
error_reporting = {there will be some kind of value in this place}
4. Change whatever value is there on that line to the following:
error_reporting = E_ERROR
5. Save and close php.ini, then go back to the WAMP menu and choose "stop
all services", followed by "start all services" to reboot Apache.
6. You should no longer see errors. If errors are still present, then do
the following:
a. follow steps 1 and 2 above
b. Search the php.ini file for the following line:
display_errors = off
Change this to
display_errors = on
c. Follow step 5 above.
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