How to export/import data from VM to HikaShop

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12 years 10 months ago #42238

Hi there, and thanks for developing what seems to be an excellent e-commerce component! I have installed a completely new Joomla 2.5.2 site and want to build my new site up from scratch instead of migrating the old 1.5-site. On the old site I have VM 1.1.4 installed. Now I have installed HikaShop on my new site and want to get the VM-data into it (orders and products, the customers I seem to have transfered allready through the Joomla import of users). If I use the Product>Import>Import from Virtumart-function I get the message "VirtueMart has not been found in the database". I guess it automatically looks in the 2.5 installation...? How can I easaly and smooth (and with extremally little knowledge on how to work directly with databases) do this?

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12 years 10 months ago #42240

Hi,

Normally, you should install HikaShop on your 1.5 website, do the export, and then upgrade your website to 2.5 using jupgrade and then deleting the HikaShop tables from the upgrade website and exporting/importing them from your old website using phpmyadmin (as well as the images that you should copy via FTP from the folder media/com_hikashop/upload of the old website to the same one in the new website).

That's the best way to do it.

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12 years 10 months ago #42259

Thanks for your fast feedback! As I implied I have a fobia for dealing with databases ;-) I'm working on another solution, though, creating a csv.-file of the old Virtumart data using the component "CSV Improved". When trying to import it into HikaShop I get the following message (after waiting several minutes):

"The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Error message: Script timed out before returning headers: index.php"

I can mention that my new J2.5 installation is located in a subfolder on my website, I'm not sure if that can be relevant...

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12 years 10 months ago #42262

The CSV needs to be adapted for HikaShop (columns name changed mainly in order to use HikaShop's). Also, it might be too big to be imported in one go so you might have to split it into several CSVs.
The VM import road seems simpler to me.

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