Upgrading to vb 3.7 with lots of Hacks -vb Bug & patch

[Goddess]

As I was prepping to upgrade to vb3.7 and researching what hacks need to be upgraded, I ran across one that pointed to an issue in the vb project tracker about difficulty upgrading hacks with capital letters in the name. vbDrupal does have a capital letter in the name, although I don't know if this bug affects it or not because of how it is set up to upgrade.

There is a patch available, for vb 3.6.10 and 3.7 that is supposed to keep this bug from messing up your hack upgrades on those affected, so I thought it might save some of our upgraders a few hours of frustration.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=25373

I've never directly patched vb, but I'm guessing it should work just like applying a drupal patch. So I guess I'll be finding out this weekend.

happy upgrading! :D

[bszopi]

I upgraded a test site without any issues, and I plan on upgrading the live site tonight. So we'll see how it goes.

[Goddess]

Good to hear!

I've found some of my installed hacks will require updating and some are reportedly impacted by this bug, so I'll see how it goes, too. I'm planning on upgrading my live site Sunday.

[bszopi]

Well, I'm up and running! Luckily, I spent some time this morning making my templates correct on my test site, so it was just copy and paste for the most part on the live site templates. I know there are still some hacks I had that I need to do template edits for, but I never did them when I upgraded to 3.6.8, so I didn't have anything to go off of when messing with the test site. Oh well, wasn't that big of a deal anyway. I'll get around to it some day.

I did figure out that you can turn off all the social networking stuff in 3.7, so I went ahead and did that for now. I did keep the user album option though. So far, everything seems to be running just fine.

[CHIPIT]

Thanks for the info, good to know.

[Goddess]

glad it went well, bszop! i'm getting ready to give my own upgrade a run shortly.

incidently, i'm a big fan of the Template Modification Hack for vb over a vbulletin.org. It saves the template edits with a search/replace for you so you can easily reapply your edits when you udpate, no manual template edits.

[Goddess]

also discovered that if your profile tabs do not show up for i.e., check your footer template to make sure any html for drupal skin integration comes BEFORE the script call at the bottom, and not after it. they will show in FF either way, but IE won't display them that way.

hope that helps somebody. :)

[webdzinez]

incidently, i'm a big fan of the Template Modification Hack for vb over a vbulletin.org. It saves the template edits with a search/replace for you so you can easily reapply your edits when you udpate, no manual template edits.


ditto! meanwhile ... i have requested clients to have beta testers test the site before going live ... i guess i am just paranoid ?

[Goddess]

well, i've seen it said "paranoia is cheap." i have a tendency at times to fly by the seat of my pants. fine when there are no rips. :)

i'm running the social groups and letting the members decide if they're interested in playing there or not. i don't know how many will take to it, but if they like it, it does me no harm. i'm also hoping some will pick up with the albums so i can start phasing out photopost. who needs another product to install, integrate, configure and maintain if not necessary?

[Botto]

One thing that is "buggy" is the notices feature. I have posted a non persistent notice, however it will show up every day now, not only once, like it should.
I don't know if it's a problem with vBDrupal or just vB. Going to do some more testing, yay for testing.

[Goddess]

really? i'm not having any issues with notices at all. i did also upgrade the welcome headers hack, which actually is now built on top of notices, and just adds a few default ones to start with.

whatever the issue, it's pretty much gotta be vb related, i would think, though, because i don't know anyplace that drupal would impact the notices...

well, i'll take that back. i didn't notice at first the notice date format was european, so it's dd-mm-yyyy and not mm-dd-yyyy. also, check your conditions to see if that's doing something weird with the logic...

[Goddess]

i also have tested notices by just showing them to the admin group, no other conditions, get the notice set how i want, and then set it up for the right group...

[Botto]

Yeah, I went over them again, I did do a "bobo" so to speak. I wanted to show a notice "once" and set not visited days to 0 since there is no other way to do this. I wanted to to show for a few days, but not to people who had seen it already.
However it seems to calculate from each day not overall. So when someone had seen it for that day, that was fine, but when you went on the next day again, you hadn't visited it for 0 days so it reshowed the notice.

The European Date thing is probably becuase their a British company.

[motivez]

Is this still a problem in 3.7.1?

[Goddess]

Is this still a problem in 3.7.1?

according to the bugtracker (linked in first post of this thread), it was fixed in 3.7.1.