General information regarding upgrading

[Oliver Georgi]

If you upgrade from older release to 1.2.9 or newer you have to check your version of MySQL at first!

If it is a release of MySQL >= 4.1 you are really forced to set MySQL charset and Collation. My recommedation! Start a new setup - this does not have to be finalized. Then you will get to know the correct charset/collations setting in relation to your used page rendering charset.

Stop the setup process at step 5.




Check setup/setup.conf.inc.php and merge those phpwcms config values with your old config/phpwcms/conf.inc.php




Also check $phpwcms['charset'] which should correlate with MySQL charset selection and set correctly by setup process. Attention again!!! While UTF-8 is the general usage MySQL does name it

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utf8

. Same for ISO codes which are latin1 or latin2 and so on in MySQL. See the link info [?] in setup screen.

Oliver

[Oliver Georgi]

And never mix charsets - if you want to use utf-8 in frontend use utf8 in MySQL - same for iso-8859-1 which is latin1 in MySQL (and so on)...

Oliver