puro1212 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 My website is running an osCommerce that is about 3-5 years old or may be even as old as 8-10 years old (don't know the exact version). Currently, the hosting server is running mySQL v4. The hosting company will require an upgrade to mySQL v5 soon. Do you know if mySQL v5 will break my osCommerce website? If so, what are the different options of handling this situation? Thanks Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥toyicebear Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Upgrade to the latest version, which as of posting this is V2.3.3.4 Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puro1212 Posted April 17, 2014 Author Share Posted April 17, 2014 Upgrade to the latest version, which as of posting this is V2.3.3.4 You mean if I upgrade my osCommerce to V2.3.3.4, then it can use mySQL v5 also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥toyicebear Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 yes, as-well as PHP5.4+ Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puro1212 Posted April 17, 2014 Author Share Posted April 17, 2014 I have a lot of custom code within my osCommerce. I think it would be hard to upgrade the osCommerce version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPhil Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 You're going to have to do it sooner or later. The longer you wait, the harder it gets, and the more of a panic situation you'll be in when your host gives you an ultimatum. You haven't kept track of what custom coding you've done? How about add-ons you've installed? Maybe you can find a vanilla version and delta the files to see what you've done between those two, and then go through a newly installed 2.3.3.4 and see what you need to do. For both add-ons and custom work, some of those things may now be in the base osC. Other things will be done differently, especially the GUI (osC is now mostly CSS layout). And this time around, keep detailed notes of what add-ons you install and what custom work you do (and why you're doing each), so you can more easily duplicate your changes next time around that you have to install a new version. By the way, you can keep your old store running while bringing up the new one, using a private /test or /dev directory and a new database. You would install osC 2.3.3.4, import and upgrade a copy of your current database, copy over product image files, and get a working vanilla copy of your store. Then you start playing with add-ons, and finally you look into custom coding. Hopefully you can at least have a working store by the time your host cuts over to modern software, so that you don't have a lengthy business interruption. Note: I can't guarantee that osC 2.3 will even run on ancient PHP and MySQL levels. There's a good chance it will, but no promises. If it doesn't, maybe your host can give you temporary space on an up-to-date server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New 
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.