Upgraded to Drupal 6

This blog is no longer being updated. I have MOVED to my new home.

It was nice here, while it lasted, but hopefully a fresh start will make life more interesting elsewhere!
23rd May 2008
Submitted by David on Fri, 23/05/2008 - 13:45

This site is now running on Drupal 6. It was a useful exercise in finding out how much pain there would be to upgrade some of my customers sites.

The good news is that it is relatively straight-forward. But, unfortunately, contributors are being a bit slow at getting on-board with Drupal 6. This site uses a custom theme, and about 8 contributed modules.

Of those 8 contributed modules, only 4 have fully released Drupal 6 versions. One I am temporarily doing without (feedburner), one I have replaced with the views module (the monthly archive), one is running with a bunch of patches as the main contributor is working on other stuff at the moment and the final (Gallery) I have dropped altogether (see here).

I think my existing customer may still be best advised to wait a while, but new customers I will try and get to use it.

Theming in particular is much easier, with a much more intuitive plug-in template system.

It was a useful test of my new version control system, using GIT

tags: drupal gallery smugmug upgrade

  • 1 On Wed, 08/10/2008 - 23:07, Randy Brown (not verified) said:

    Drupal 6 upgrade

    so was the upgrade to 6 worth it? Any performance improvements?

    I just finally made the upgrade from 4.7 to 5.10 a few weeks ago.. The upgrade was smooth, and worth it for the performance improvement alone – but i’ll probably wait until D8 is released before i venture to D6 ..

  • 2 On Wed, 08/10/2008 - 23:10, Randy Brown (not verified) said:

    Drupal 6 and Akismet

    so maybe the upgrade wasnt so great.. when i tried to post my previous comment I was greeted with:
    Fatal error: Call to undefined function drupal_submit_form() in /data/smallweb/angier/david/sites/all/modules/akismet/akismet.module on line 707

    looks like akismet doesnt like D6 so much..

  • 3 On Tue, 28/10/2008 - 20:44, David said:

    You're so right

    What a mess! I don’t get too many comments, so never realised this big problem. Going back through my approval queues putting everything back together. My fault, I should have monitored it closer. Sigh.

  • 4 On Sat, 10/01/2009 - 18:22, Anonymous (not verified) said:

    not only you with line 707 of askimet..

    many people have this line 707 problem, the simple solution is to disable askimet: http://drupal.org/node/268149

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