Moving content to another eZ publish installation

Friday 26 January 2007 7:37:45 pm - 9 replies

9 replies

Author	Message
Xavier Dutoit	Saturday 27 January 2007 1:18:15 am Hi, Thanks for your feed-back, very valuable. Did you package content with images/files ? Did it work ok ? X+ http://www.sydesy.com
Vjeran Vlahovic	Saturday 27 January 2007 4:12:07 am Hi Xavier, fortunately all media objects and embedded images were copied without problems (less than 200 objects). Although, some articles lost intro value (ezxml) but it was too fuzzy behavior to report that as a bug. http://www.netgen.hr/eng
Alexandre Cunha	Monday 03 September 2007 7:03:04 pm Hello Vjeran Thanks for this information. Im using the export/ import function to copy content from a site to another. <quote> Packages do not preserve the real owner of the object or published/modified values </quote> Can you please tell more about what you do you fix this? Im only interest to preserver the published/modified date values for "folder" and "article" classes. thank you http://AlexandreCunha.com
Andy Caiger	Tuesday 15 July 2008 6:10:45 am It seems this isn't fixed in eZ Publish 4.0 either. I'm trying to import forums from version 3.9.2 into version 4.0. Can you explain how to preserve owner ID and published/modified date values when importing content packages? Thanks! EAB - Integrated Internet Success Offices in England, France & China. http://www.eab.co.uk http://www.eab-china.com http://www.eab-france.com
Vjeran Vlahovic	Wednesday 16 July 2008 10:13:33 am Hi Andy, I just uploaded two simple php scripts as a contribution which can help you to synchronize owner_id, modified and published in ezcontentobject table and creator_id, created and modified in ezcontentobject_version table. Before runing them, import all your users and posts into your new instalation. http://ez.no/developer/contribs/hacks/owner_id_creator_id_modified_and_published_synchronizer http://www.netgen.hr/eng
Andy Caiger	Wednesday 03 September 2008 9:32:59 am Thanks Vjeran! This is great. These scripts worked well. It's worth pointing out that they depend on the <b>ADOdb Database Abstraction Library</b> which is available at http://adodb.sourceforge.net/ Andy EAB - Integrated Internet Success Offices in England, France & China. http://www.eab.co.uk http://www.eab-china.com http://www.eab-france.com
James Stevens	Thursday 04 September 2008 4:32:52 am Thanks Vjeren, this is useful info. I've been doing quite a lot of package importing/exporting recently, not with quite as many objects as you however (~700) but it's re-assuring you've done 5000! I encountered quite a few issues with importing packages, i think primarily because we're using Oracle, and some queries in the kernel are still only MySQL compatible. Other than that i've seen the usual php config issues like timeouts and exhaustion of RAM. I've also seen a few issues with image objects losing the actual image.
James Stevens	Thursday 04 September 2008 4:41:08 am If you're running eZ Publish 4.0.1 there's an update script you can run to fix remote-ids, so the direct SQL update statements may not be needed if you have an up to date base. Here's the page:- http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/upgrading/upgrading_to_4_0/from_4_0_x_to_4_0_y Here's some vitals from the webpage:- <i>The following example shows how to run the script: 1. Navigate into the eZ Publish 4.0.1 directory. 2. Run the script (replace "example" with the actual name of your siteaccess): php update/common/scripts/4.0/fixobjectremoteid.php -s example The script will search for objects with non-unique remote IDs. Every time such an object is found, the script will suggest to either display more detailed information or fix the problem automatically. If you choose the first option, the script will display the list of objects that have the same remote ID and let you decide which one should remain unchanged; all other objects in the list will get new remote IDs. Otherwise, the script will fix the problem automatically based on the objects' creation dates. This means that the script will generate new remote IDs for all objects in the list except the one that was created first.</i>
Vjeran Vlahovic	Wednesday 10 September 2008 3:46:07 pm @andy: I'm glad these scripts worked well for you! @james: thanks for the feedback, didn't know about fixobjectremoteid.php - much more elegant than my solution ;) http://www.netgen.hr/eng

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