Drupal 5.x to 6.x Upgrade Resources
These docs were kind of hard to find so I’m dumping them here for convenience. I’m going to need them a lot now that Drupal 7 is about to be released. The additional links at the bottom are helpful case studies and tips from others. (This post will be updated as I find more stuff.)
Instructions:
- General Drupal upgrade instructions
- Specific D5 to D6 upgrade instructions
- D5 to D6 videocast by greggles
References for Porting to Drupal 6:
- Converting 5.x Themes to 6.x
- Converting 5.x Modules to 6.x – also check out the child pages, which include the very handy FormAPI 5.x to 6.x Changes.
Help upgrading specific modules or themes from Drupal 5 to 6.
- Upgrading Forum on drupal.org
- Zen sub-theme
Useful Reads:
Common Errors and Solutions:
- Fatal Error: Unsupported operand types in
- Can’t create table cache_block
- “This content type has inactive fields. Inactive fields are not included in lists of available fields until their modules are enabled.” — disable and re-enable the modules responsible for the inactive fields. Some kind of dependency got whacked during the multitude of updates you just did.
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If you know of a link that’s useful for upgrading from Drupal 5.x to 6.x, please leave a comment!
This content type has inactive fields. Inactive fields are not included in lists of available fields until their modules are enabled.
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