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First, is there anything that explains any differences between the two terms in the two versions?

Second, it appears there is some mondo search/replace going on in the upgrade process and this seems to have snagged me.  I have some templates with ‘weblog’ in their names and embeds appear to have changed the template name from ‘weblog_body’ to ‘channel_body’ (for example) without changing the template name.

I’m going to back out and start over but want to make sure I catch all instances where any search/replace may catch me.

My main template group, for example, is ‘weblog’ - is that going to hose me?

Thanks,

Steve

In terms of weblog vs. channel, there is no difference.  It’s just a name change to reflect that EE “channels” aren’t just used for Blogs…

Hi Steve,

I’m sorry the name change snagged you.

Functionally, there is no difference between “weblog” and “channel”. Channel was simply the most non-descript, yet meaningful name we could come up with 😉

You are correct, there is a massive find/replace that take place as part of the upgrade process. I’m afraid there is no guard against *where* it looks to make the changes.

I am going to ask one of the developers to be sure.

Hang tight.

Cheers,

Thanks, Dan.  I need to get all my templates saved as text files again, too, so I can search for all the permutations.

Hello Steve D,

I am glad that wen and Dan could get you sorted.

Is there anything else we can help you with? Any more questions or concerns?

Cheers,

Well, I don’t know that I’m ‘sorted’ yet.  I still don’t know what the logic is behind search/replace for ‘weblog’. 

I just know how I’ll approach debugging once I know this.

Hi Steve,

Robin got back to us with this:

Yep- looks like user is squared away, but for the record, it’s getting caught in this:

$Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, 'weblog:weblog_name', 'channel:channel_name')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, 'exp:weblog', 'exp:channel')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, '{assign_variable:', '{preload_replace:')"; // this is necessary before the following query
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, '{preload_replace:my_weblog=', '{preload_replace:my_channel=')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, '{my_weblog}', '{my_channel}')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, '{weblog}', '{channel}')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, 'weblog_', 'channel_')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, '_weblog', '_channel')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, 'weblog=', 'channel=')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, '{blog_title}', '{channel_title}')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, '{blog_description}', '{channel_description}')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, '{blog_encoding}', '{channel_encoding}')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, '{blog_lang}', '{channel_lang}')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, '{blog_url}', '{channel_url}')";

Now- it doesn’t change template names- which is good.  We don’t want to hose up their urls.  But within the templates, it’s a pretty massive change.  It really shouldn’t change embeds though.  Since it’s not changing the template names, that leads to a negative result.  And really shouldn’t change paths for the same reason.  These two are the replaces that might have those issues:

$Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, 'weblog_', 'channel_')";
  $Q[] = "UPDATE `exp_templates` SET `template_data` = REPLACE(`template_data`, '_weblog', '_channel')";

So it seems there *is* the potential for a conflict. To be safe, I would go down the path you have chosen. Get your templates into files before the update, and do a find/replace for the affected tags and use something unrelated. After running the upgrade, you can get them back out as files and find/replace again for your unrelated word.

Dan,

Thanks!  I think this should help. 

Steve

Alright Steve,

I’m going to close this down for now. If you bump into trouble again, just let us know in a new thread.

We are here to help!

Cheers!