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Hello MyBB Community,

When i updated from .10 to .11 I had to FTP all of the files into my directory again, etc...

Shouldn't there be an easy way to update the forums? For example, look at the SMF forums, they’ve got it so you just click a button, and it installs the new files automatically.

If you want to go a step further... You can have your upgrade script loop through the PHP file that you need to upgrade, find the code that changed and add/remove/update any changes. The really cool thing about this would be that all of my modifications I’ve made won’t get overwritten. Now, how cool would that be?

See, when I upgraded, I had to go into the PHP files, and add my eval()’s to set my template variable’s, and it was kind of a pain… I just put all of my code into a PHP custom file, and just include it so every time I upgrade, I only have to include that one file. But, I’m thinking it would just make my life a LOT easier if this functionality (to update the code changes) existed with my new favorite board software, MyBB.

1.2.10 to 1.2.11 was replacing 6 files <_< ; and i doubt you've added any codechanges in those =P

You shouldn't have had to reupload all the files when you upgraded. There is a changed files package that is posted with any upgrade announcement. That is much easier, but yeah, any changes that have been made to updated files must be made again. It is a pain, but something we've all gotten used to. But a script that would just make the changes to the existing files WOULD be pretty awesome...I just wouldn't hold my breath. I'm just happy to have my forum running the way I want it to...and to have the software being free is just icing on the cake.

LeX- Wrote:1.2.10 to 1.2.11 was replacing 6 files <_< ; and i doubt you've added any codechanges in those =P

As a matter of fact, I did. And i didn't notice the "mybb_1211_patches.txt" until just now, or else i would have updated it that way.

It would still be VERY nice to have this function.

judel Wrote:a script that would just make the changes to the existing files WOULD be pretty awesome...I just wouldn't hold my breath. I'm just happy to have my forum running the way I want it to...and to have the software being free is just icing on the cake.

Amen to that. It's just a suggestion that i've seen on other free forum software that works really well.

Yea, personally I think it would be nice if there was a compare system that compared the scripts to update the file automatically.

Plus I think this has already been discussed and looked to or am I wrong? But I know it has been discussed.

Yes, there is a discussion on the ideas site about this

Tikitiki Wrote:Yes, there is a discussion on the ideas site about this

That would be awesome if such a feature would be included in the future versions

*crosses fingers and hopes that 1.4 implements this feature!*

1.6 you mean, there will be no more (major) features additions in 1.4 as said by the MyBB team.