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Upgrading from XOOPS Multilanguage

The following instructions are to update from the SmartFactory XOOPS Multilanguage installation to ImpressCMS 1.1

• Download a full copy of ImpressCMS 1.1, and delete the mainfile.php from the htdocs folder.

• Uploaded all files of ImpressCMS 1.1 htdocs folder onto your site

• Chmod mainfile.php to be writable (777)

• Upload upgrade folder

• Browse to /upgrade

• Follow the upgrade instructions

• Change the charset of the database for UTF-8 in the related step of the upgrader

• Manually created a trust path folder and input the path in the related step of the upgrader

• Followed the rest of the upgrader steps.

• When all was done, enable Multilanguage in System > Preferences > Multilanguage

• View SmartLanguage > Smarty tags and create all these tags in System > Custom tags

• edit theme.html to use these new custom tags instead of old smary tags. So <{$mytag}> became <{$customtag.mytag}>

• Your site is now updated :)

Please ensure you backup your site and database before attempting this.