Update oscommerce 2.2 to 2.3.1

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Sreejith Sasidharan Sreejith Sasidharan 1, 5 5 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. On page 2 you'll see a reddish shaded box and it says the following: This upgrade guide only provides the minimum required changes in the form of security updates and bug fixes.

If you like what you read and if you think it will help you in your online business, then please consider a donation. There is no obligation to do so and all information provided here is free to use. It will however help to keep this blog alive, free of advertising and full of content. Very interesting article, thanks for posting this George. Link manager and menu maker are part of mini template system and not available as a separate independent addon. Mini template system is an addition to osCommece touches the core code of osCommerce very decently.

Any part of it, like the link manager and menu maker can be installed and will work on any osCommerce store without any problems. There are absolutely no problems to install it on osCommerce even without having mini template system installed.

The point is now that the links and link groups, created with the link manager, need to be outputted somewhere on the store front. This is what the menu maker is doing. In default osCommerce there is no such information available, so this function would not work and would be taken out. Things like this, and others, would need to be set and fixed in the files, and any future modification would also need to be done in the file, for example in the case you decide to place a link box to the right column instead of the left, or in case you decide to change the store width or column width.

All in all a little more trouble than to use it within mini template system, but very well possible. Personally I think it would be good to release this as a standalone addon, just my opinion. Mini template system is designed for osCommerce version 2. Hi I love these ideas and would gladly pay for them as addons, the mini template system is out of my pockets reach at the moment as now living in Turkey and wages are very low.

If you would do these as addons then contact me please. Yes, link manager is available for osCommerce version 2. Can I purchase this system for use on my existing website? Where can it be purchased? Link manager is not available as a standalone addon, only as part of mini template system. Home read learn work Contact. Tags: function , mini template system , osCommerce v2.

If I just upload 2. Or will it create a brand new database and I will have to start again. The reason I want to upgrade is that from 2. What about your add-ons? You cannot just drop on top. There are also database changes in 2. You can either upgrade your existing installation there is a guide in the package , or rebuild on the core 2. W3 osCommerce Vanilla osCommerce. Hi yes, there is a check for update button, which is good.

So do I just back up the database in 2.