[Xerte-dev] Re: testing upgrade

[Pat Lockley]

You could make a new XAMPP for 1.8, but that's new documentation

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Would it be easy to just do xampp install into /xertetoolkits18 and create a
> xertetoolkits18 database? Then you’d end up with two installations for the
> different versions, but nothing would screw up.
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
> Sent: 13 July 2012 09:32
>
>
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] testing upgrade
>
>
>
> Hi
>
> I tested upgrading some older localhost xampp installations yesterday e.g.
> by dragging 1.8 code over the top of the earlier version and also running
> upgrade.php
>
> As far as tests so far this seems to work fine but I did notice there had
> been a change in demo.txt at some point which could cause problems for those
> upgrading a xampp install. I guess this might be a question for Pat and a
> judgement call as to what to use for the guest account username....
>
>
>
> 1. At some point in demo.txt $_SESSION['toolkits_logon_username'] = "guest";
> was changed to $_SESSION['toolkits_logon_username'] = "guest2"; and the
> current 1.7 zip download has $_SESSION['toolkits_logon_username'] =
> "guest2";
>
>
>
> 2. The xot1.8 code in /library/Xerte/Authentication/Guest.php sets guest as
> the username e.g.
>
> public function getUsername() {
>
>         return 'guest';
>
>     }
>
>
>
> 3. The reason this is relevant is that at the moment if someone upgrades a
> xampp 1.7 install which is using demo.txt code rather than switch.txt code
> they won't see their previous projects. Solution for that would be to change
> Guest.php to use guest2 rather than guest. However in older versions and I'm
> not sure exactly when the username in demo.txt was guest rather than guest2
> so upgrading these works fine.
>
>
>
> Questions:
>
> a) Should we change the 1.8 code to use guest2? e.g. will work ok for more
> recent installs and perhaps add a note about changing this for older
> installs
>
> b) Or should we leave 1.8 code as guest and add a note about changing this
> for more recent installs?
>
> c) Or is there a way we can check for in the code and use guest or guest2
> accordingly?
>
>
>
> HTH
>
> Ron
>
>
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