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Errors opening 4.2 project with 5.0

 		1/22/2009 9:02:39 AM
PHPRunner General questions
J
 jsuisman author

Hey all,
I trying to use 5.0(build 766) to edit an older PHPRunner project that I believe was created with 4.2 (build 377). Everything opens up and seems to work correctly except for the "Edit" page of the main table. The first noticeable problem is that most of the variables move to different locations on the page when viewing it in Visual Editor, almost like they get jumbled up randomly. This leads to a problem when i try to use the Edit function on my test server. I get the "Unknown column ... in field list" error. On a side note, the inline edit works fine and all of the other pages work. Also, this problem does fix itself when i reopen and build the project with 4.2. The simplest solution is to edit this project with 4.2, but new hires will only have licenses for 5.0 on their machines.
I'm very confused about this because all of my other pages look and work exactly as they did before. Has anyone run into this problem before?
Thanks,
Jarred
J
 		Jane 1/23/2009

Jarred,
have you edited SQL query for this table on the Edit SQL query tab?

Please publish your project on Demo Account and open a ticket at http://support.xlinesoft.com sending a URL to your pages along with instructions on reproducing this error.
rsawchuk 1/23/2009

Jarred /Jane,
I have PHPRunner projects going back to 3.0. With 5.0, I find I always have problems with projects done in older versions. It is easier for me to simply redo the entire project instead of trying to get the old version working. Fortunately, my projects tend to be small so it only takes an hour or so to redo.
Also, has phprunner.php changed in this version? I get errors and problems connection to my sites unless I upload phprunner.php from version 5 and then I can connect again.
Otherwise the program does what it is supposed to do, and does it well.
Russ
J
 		Jane 1/26/2009

Russ,
yes, phprunner.php was changed. You need to upload new phprunner.php file to the server for project in PHPRunner 5.0.
rsawchuk 1/26/2009

Jane,
With new projects, PHPRunner 5.0 (Build 766) works fine. However, when I try and use it for older projects, I am having no end of problems.
First of all, it is continually crashing or not-responding with older 4.2 projects. When I upload the new phprunner.php, and open the project, it had erases all my reports. I have tons of PHPRunner projects going back many years. With 5.0, I am finding the only way I can get them to work is to create a new project and redo them.
Fortunately, I did not delete Version 4.2 so I guess I will go back to using that for previous projects.
For years, PHPRunner was an application that never gave me any problems and was a joy to use. However, with 5.0 this has now changed. You need to slow down with the new versions, or make it easy for us to use the new versions on updating old projects files.
Thanks,
Russ
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 		Lorenbond 1/27/2009

Jane,

With new projects, PHPRunner 5.0 (Build 766) works fine. However, when I try and use it for older projects, I am having no end of problems.
First of all, it is continually crashing or not-responding with older 4.2 projects. When I upload the new phprunner.php, and open the project, it had erases all my reports. I have tons of PHPRunner projects going back many years. With 5.0, I am finding the only way I can get them to work is to create a new project and redo them.
Fortunately, I did not delete Version 4.2 so I guess I will go back to using that for previous projects.
For years, PHPRunner was an application that never gave me any problems and was a joy to use. However, with 5.0 this has now changed. You need to slow down with the new versions, or make it easy for us to use the new versions on updating old projects files.
Thanks,
Russ


Based on my experiences with 50. Backwards compatibility seems to be a huge shortcoming. <img src='https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=reply&id=37167&image=1&table=forumreplies' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />
In build 4.2(379) I can cut and past the html view to notepad before making changes. If I get a fatal problem I just cut and past the old copy back and I'm back in business. <img src='https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=reply&id=37167&image=2&table=forumreplies' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />
With version 5.0 when I cut and past it back it gives me unrecoverable errors and I have to completely rebuild the page with the 5.0 template which is not at all like the classified template I started with in version 4.2. <img src='https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=reply&id=37167&image=3&table=forumreplies' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':angry:' />
Ok, I FEEL BETTER now that that's all out of my system! I could go on and on trashing version 5.0 but I'm not going to do that. Instead I'm going to continue to use 4.2 It's been a wonderful program to work even though it has many quirks of its own. <img src='https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=reply&id=37167&image=4&table=forumreplies' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rolleyes:' />
So far I just haven't found the need to upgrade to 50; however, I'm sure that before the ink dries on this page I'll figure out why I HAVE to upgrade to it. Then after pulling my hair out I'll probably learn to love it as much as I do version 4.2 <img src='https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=reply&id=37167&image=5&table=forumreplies' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />
J
 		Jane 1/27/2009

Russ,
It's difficult to tell you what's happening without seeing actual files.
Please zip your project, whole project directory and database creation script and open a ticket at http://support.xlinesoft.com sending your file along with instructions on reproducing this error.