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cforms II User Forum Troubleshooting Keeping Local cForm Settings in Sync

Keeping Local cForm Settings in Sync
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Yellow Swordfish

1:43 pm January 10, 2009
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I have multiple copies of my public site on my local server for development purposes. Each of these, of course, has a different url. Understandably, when I import my public database into a local system (with all references to the url changed) I lose my cForm settings and I am making the assumption that this is because the length of the url is now different which in effect corrupts the serialised option data.

I did see that the settings 'backup' text file is not php serialised so I hoped that by replacing all url references in a copy of that and then importing it locally my settings may be restored but this does not appear to be the case.

Can you recommend any method that I might adopt that would enable syncing across multiple domian names?

Thanks

( Nice forum by the way :) )
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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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8:39 pm January 10, 2009
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'Can't claim to also be the author of the forum plugin, but I know who is ;-)

Here is my recommended approach (note that backups from version 8.x and lower is incompatible with version 9+):

  1. it's always a good idea to keep a complete cforms backup in a safe place (global-settings>backup)
  2. on the new site, restore the backed up file as is
  3. turn off the plugin and reactivate on the new site, will reset the vital paths/URLs so the plugin ought to work just fine, with these exceptions (which require manual verification):
    1. check js/cforms.js for proper path
    2. check abspath.php for proper path
  4. of course if you have configured certain paths/URLs (e.g. upload directory etc) via the cforms admin gui, you need to adjust those to your new environment

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Yellow Swordfish

9:15 pm January 10, 2009
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Excellent advice as usual. Worked perfectly thanks. It allows me to work on things  in as live a type of environment without risk!

Thanks for the info.
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