Improvements to the process for upgrading Pixaria

Posted on Monday, March 5, 2007

Current users of Pixaria may be aware that the upgrade process for moving to newer versions of the script involves importing SQL scripts into your database using a tool such as phpMyAdmin.

Recent changes to Pixaria to improve the internationalisation of the script and add support for UTF8 text encoding to allow Hebrew, Japanese and other non-Latin text in image and gallery data require separate SQL updater scripts depending on which version of MySQL your server is running.

From the next update of Pixaria, all SQL database upgrades will be done using a special updater script written in PHP and accessed through a web interface. Hopefully this will not only allow me to build more customised SQL scripts which depend on the version of MySQL installed but will also make the upgrade process simpler and more reliable.

If you have any thoughts on how this should work or other suggestions, please e-mail me at info@pixaria.com.

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