My hosting company upgraded the version of PHP on my servers to 5.3 last night. Unfortunately I use old versions of Mambo as the content management system for cardifftri.net, and it doesn’t work properly with PHP 5.3. As I found out this morning.
So I have to backup my SQL databases, backup my server files, upgrade incrementally to a slightly less old version of Mambo, and then to a “new” version of Mambo, and cross my fingers that I don’t lose any data and that all the bits and pieces work nicely together. I have a feeling I’m going to come across new problems for components and mambos as I go.
When I’ve done all that and got those to work, then I have to repeat the exercise for a couple of other websites that I look after that have the same problem. No fun!
The positive spin on this is that I’ve been slowly working on upgrade plans for cardifftri.net for a little while now. This is a push to upgrade the backend, and should help me jump to Joomla. If I keep the momentum going I might be able to implement the front end changes I’ve been scribbling too (i.e. change the way the website looks and behaves). With all this I can then add some extra features that users have been requesting for ages.
