Migrating Contact Enhanced from Joomla 1.5

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Migrating Contact Enhanced from Joomla 1.5 to any newer version

Procedure

If you are migrating from a Joomla 1.5 version you will need to proceed with a manual migration:

In order to achieve this you will need a little experience with PHPMyAdmin and SQL;

First of all you will need to create a full database backup, just for safety reasons, then perform these steps:

1. In PHPMyAdmin:
a) Select your Joomla 1.5 database, then select the "Export" option;
b) Select the tables below to export (#__ stands for the Joomla 1.5 database prefix for your installation, usually jos_):

#__contact_enhanced_details
#__contact_enhanced_cv
#__contact_enhanced_cf
#__contact_enhanced_messages
#__contact_enhanced_message_fields

c) Select the Format to SQL;
d) Export the selected tables;

2. In the exported SQL file or SQL content, find out which database prefix you used for the new installation, usually j25_ or some random characters, then replace your old Joomla 1.5 prefix for the the new one;
3. In PHPMyAdmin, select the database for the new version (if a different database), then run the query (with the changed prefix);
4. In the migrated site install Contact Enhanced 2.5 and it will perform all other migration tasks;

In this situation (manual upgrade), only the Categories will not be imported, so you will have to manually create them and re-configure Contacts and Custom Fields. You will be able to use the Batch features to re-configure, so it should not be a hard task.