Move products to Joomla 2.5

Hi Nicolas,

Can you tell me the easiest way to move all of my products and categories to a new Joomla 2.5 build. Do I need to upgrade the version of Hikashop on the old version of the site first?

HH.

I will try and recall this from my memory.

1. upgrade your hikashop version on J1.5 site to latest version!
2. I use SP Upgrade to migrate site from J1.5 to J2.5, this will migrate all your core joomla stuff.
3. On new J2.5 site install HikaShop
4. then export hikashop tables from J1.5 database with phpmyadmin
5. import those tables into the J2.5 database with phpmyadmin
6. as the hikashop versions are the same on both J1.5 and J2.5 sites it should all work then

Just found these pretty useful articles on migrating J1.5 to 2.5 from the team over at Jomsocial. There are 8 articles that explain the processes, reviews the different migrators and what you need to know - www.jomsocial.com/blog.html

The article that explains the process for migrating jomsocial would be the same for hikashop - www.jomsocial.com/blog/migrating-jomsoci...-into-joomla-25.html

Also, just thought that after you install HikaShop on the new J2.5 site, you will need to delete all the Hikashop database tables before importing the J1.5 hikashop tables.

Hi woonydanny,
I used your instructions and had no problem on my local server. But I had an issue with importing to my shared server. Specifically:

Error
SQL query:

CREATE ALGORITHM = UNDEFINED DEFINER = `XXXXXXX_XXXXXXX`@`localhost` SQL SECURITY DEFINER VIEW `jos_hikashop_click_view` AS SELECT `a`.`user_id` AS `user_id` , SUM( `b`.`click_partner_price` ) AS `click_price`
FROM (

`jos_hikashop_user` `a`
LEFT JOIN `jos_hikashop_click` `b` ON ( (
(
`a`.`user_id` = `b`.`click_partner_id`
)
AND (
(

CASE WHEN (
`a`.`user_currency_id` =0
)
THEN 2
ELSE `a`.`user_currency_id`
END ) = `b`.`click_partner_currency_id`
)
)
)
)
WHERE (
(
`a`.`user_partner_activated` =1
)
AND (
`b`.`click_partner_paid` =0
)
)
GROUP BY `b`.`click_partner_id` ;

MySQL said:

#1227 - Access denied; you need (at least one of) the SUPER privilege(s) for this operation



Any suggestions?

The _view "tables" are not necessary. Simply delete them before and try again.

Thanks for the response, Nicolas. I ended up having my hosting company import for me.