Database Tables Joomla 2.5 to Joomla 3

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.4

Hi
Have upgraded my site from Joomla 2.5 to Joomla 3 latest version and the last thing I need to do is get all my Hikashop data from Joomla 2.5 to Joomla 3.

Are the table structures exactly the same in which case I can just copy the tables from one database to another or is it more difficult
Thanks

Hikashop database tables have the same structure for all Joomla vesions.
Copy Hikashop tables from J2.5 to J3 and install Hikashop.

Hi,

It is not more difficult than that

After the copy of the tables you might need to perform some adjustments in the configuration for the J2/J3 display settings ; like the menu position, the popup system, etc.
www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...html#display_general

Regards,

You'll also need to copy the files from media/com_hikashop/upload from the old website to the new one and probably adapt a few settings of the HikaShop configuration like the "menu position".

Imported all the tables across no problem as well as the media file.

Question I have is on Views. On my old 2.5 site I had created a number of custom views. When I copied the tables across, there are no custom views showing for my new template. Is this what should happen?

Yes.

If you want to move the custom views, you want to copy the folder templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/com_hikashop from your old website to your new website.

Thanks

I will have a play around with the views as the layout is different in my new template.

Is there any documentation that explains in more detail about the Views - and how each view is related. I struggle finding where things are when I want to move something like "Contact Us For More Information" button to the left side of the page under the image for example.

Hi,

Well, we have the "customize the display" documentation page.
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/1...ize-the-display.html

Regards,

The documentation is not helping me.
If you go to this link on my test site
www.ecomad.com.au/ecomad-Rasa/ecoshop/in...thwool-ceiling-batts

I have been trying to find things in Views and change some things around but any changes I make don't seem to work on the front end when I refresh.
I want to move the button "Contact Us for More Info" which is on the right side and move it underneath the thumbnail images - which View can I do this?

Also want to hide the description text which is sitting under the thumbnails. I want to comment out the code which is showing this.

I have made changes in the SHOW_Default View and removed the DIV which has the contact us code but the button is still showing.

Hi,

If you don't see the changes that you make in those views it's either:
1. That you're doing them for another template than the template you're using on your frontend, so make sure that you're editing the view files for the correct template.
2. That your website has some caching preventing you from seeing the changes. Make sure that you clean the cache of your website.
3. That you're not editing the correct view file.

I checked your product page and I can see that you're using the tabular product page layout. Thus, it's not the show_default view file that you want to edit but the show_tabular view file.

Right - thanks for that. Tabular chosen by the template designer.

Can you help with the Tab part - if you click on specification it is showing the Brand above the heading specification. I want to put the Brand below this but just can't find where to do this. Looked through Tabular view but can't spot it.
www.ecomad.com.au/ecomad-Rasa/ecoshop/in...thwool-ceiling-batts

Hi,

You should find the desired part in the div:
You view seems to be customized as we don't have this display by default. By default the brand is in the description part.
Please check if you don't have code like: If you have that code, so it is this code which needs to be moved.

Will have to ask the template creators about how they have created tabular as default.

Or is there a setting in Hikashop where you can set the default view? Can't find it.

What is the default View? show_default I assume.

Huski wrote: Or is there a setting in Hikashop where you can set the default view? Can't find it.

-> System -> Configuration -> tab Display -> Default parameters for products -> option "Layout on product page".

Huski wrote: What is the default View? show_default I assume.

There are individual view files for each layout under "Layout on product page", and they are logically named
- "show_default"
- "show_reversed"
- "show_tabular"

Perfect Thanks for that

Not sure whats happened but somewhere in amongst copying views and changing css and updating from old website to new, on the product page, the quantity field has disappeared. I checked a demo template and it looks like there is a table which has the quantity field and the + and - to adjust quantity but can't see this in my template.
www.ecomad.com.au/ecomad-Rasa/ecoshop/dr...seals/eco-seal-white

Not knowing if and how your views might be customised in this regard, first review the settings in the system configuration for "quantity field" (-> tab Main -> Product) and "quantity layouts" (-> tab Display -> Default parameters for products), and eventually for each individual product itself.

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Nothing personal, but since a while the posts in this thread have nothing to do with the original subject anymore, and you keep changing/adding topics here. It'd be fair to open new threads for new topics, don't you think? Eventually even only after checking the documentation, and after using the search here... thanks!