Upgraded from 1.8.2 to latest. MLE fails on me.

[hejamartin]

Hi,

I am a beginner, so I have to ask you to have patience with me.

I am helping a client out that has a site that has been updated with many pages and content through times. But the core has not been updated since 1.8.2.

Though I have taken over the development of their website, and I am usually a web developer with Wordpress.

But this is the first time with CMSMS. But I have a unforeseen problem.

The upgrade went well! But I did discover that the ones who had built this website in the beginning - in which the company no longer exist - was not that nice to CMSMS.

There is a folder called "mle" in the root folder, which has been there to allow using multilingual support. This was a hack as I have found out. In which makes the upgraded CMSMS breaking this hack.

The creators of the hack is probably this:
http://www.xme.it/en/cms-mle

And I DONT like the hack at all, but now I am trapped as a beginner in CMSMS - and have existing content and so.. and damn, a hacked "mle" solution.

Is there a simple way out of this?!

I got a backup of the site with 1.8.2 and the database. Reverting is possible. But is there a way, or is the best way to go and install a proper mulitlingual module, and transfer all content?

I guess the answer is yes, but is there an other way so that it does not need to be so much timeconsuming as of start from the beginning?

Thank you!

/ Martin

[Jo Morg]

Note: BACKUP files and database!
The only procedure I know of is this: http://www.xme.it/en/cms-mle/disinstallazione-cms-mle.
Then update according to http://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/upgrading/old-versions

HTH.

[hejamartin]

I am willing to try that of course!

Uninstalling MLE - that I can do – but still there will be a problem of the content being "wasted". There are 4 different languages that I guess wont be visible after an installation.

As for now, when upgrading the whole CMSMS, I guess that might is the same as just "uninstalling" MLE?

Or what do you think Jo Morg?

/ Martin

[Jo Morg]

Although I didn't test it myself, it seems to be a 'PROCEDURE FOR MIGRATE FROM MLE TO CMSMS' (copy paste, not my caps)....
It might work as long as you follow all the steps.
Edit: the language contents will probably still reside in the Database. It might be possible to recover it.

[hejamartin]

Ok, thanks Jo Morg, what is the correct way with doing a multilingual website in CMSMS?

This MLE used this time is of course no good since it makes changes to the core!

I found this blog, is this a decent way to do it?
http://blog.arvixe.com/creating-a-multi ... ms-module/

Thanks

[Jo Morg]

There is not one correct way of doing a multilingual site. There is the module way (currently only http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/mlecms seems to be working and that blog post gives some insight on how to do it) and a few other ways: https://www.cmscanbesimple.org/blog/mul ... ade-simple
It's up to you to do some tests and see which method best fits your needs.