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    MichaelHarringtonDesigns Reply #1, 16 years, 2 months ago
    Hi everyone I have been away for a while and when I come back Revolution 2.0.0 released which is great.

    I have several sites now built using Evolution 1.0.2, I want to upgrade to Revolution 2.0.0 for me and my clients. I was wondering if anyone has already done this and if there was any best practises for this.

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      Yes, I have done this successfully.

      Basically, I followed this guide: http://bobsguides.com/migrating-revolution.html

      The most interesting part is the section about the differences between the old and the new MODx Tags. I worked directly with the database. I did a parallel install of Evo and Revo. Then I changed my existing modx_site_content table of Evolution to the new structure of Revo (with "alter table"...), dumped it as a *.sql file and searched and replaced the old and new tags in this dump. Then I replaced the table with my altered dump. In this way, I didn’t have to cut and paste the contents of my pages again, as described in the guide.

      But be warned: there may some snippets missing in Revolution. At the end I was successful, but many things are different (for example: Ditto -> getResources...). The backend feels somewhat slower than the old one, because it’s not a frameset anymore. If you really need to migrate? Well, it depends.
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