Upgrade Center: Build an Upgrade Package

Warning

This article describes how to work with the tool for building core upgrade packages. That tool was intended for internal use by CS-Cart team.

To create an upgrade package automatically, we wrote the build.php script (_tools/upgrade/). Run it with the following command:

cd _tools/upgrade
php build.php

Name

build.php -- make upgrade package

Synopsis

php build.php old new

Description

Make upgrade package from old version to the new one.

Example of the build.php tool use:

php build.php ~/arch/cscart_4.3.1.tgz ~/Download/cscart_4.3.2.tgz

As a result, the packs directory will be created in _tools/upgrade/. There will be an archive with the following name in it: upgrade_[old_version]_[old_edition]-[new_version]_[new_edition].tgz, and a directory. That directory has the same contents as an archive. It was made for manual deleting/adding/editing files and structure.

Languages and Language Packages

All the available at the moment (for the current version) language packages will be included to the upgrade pack.

Migrations

Migrations are taken from the following directory of the current branch: _tools/migration/migrations/[NEW_VERSION]/, where [NEW_VERSION] - is the new CS-Cart version.

If you want to upgrade your CS-Cart store to version 4.3.2, all the migrations from the _tools/migration/migrations/4.3.2/ directory will be taken.

PRE/POST Scripts

They work in the same way as the migrations. All the PRE/POST scripts are searched for in the _tools/migration/scripts/[NEW_VERSION]/ directory. Script names must contain the pre_ and post_ prefixes.

Example:

pre_create_folder.php
post_clear_garbage.php

Scripts can contain any PHP code.

Important

Pre script is included in the upgrade in any case (either the pre_checking.php file is created, or the additional code is written to the beggining of the existing one). This code is an additional checking for the installed cart license.

Extra

Sometimes it is necessary to change the package.json file automatically (for example, remove files that were not included to a list). To do it, create the extra.php file in the _tools/migration/extra/[NEW_VERSION] directory.

Return an array with the new data:

<?php

return array(
    'files' => array(
        "app/addons/tags/controllers/backend/pages.pre.php" => array(
            "status" => "deleted",
            "hash" => "3d9d910be344a8450f81a4618863595d"
        ),
        "app/lib/vendor/robmorgan/phinx/README.mdown" => array(
            "status" => "deleted",
            "hash" => "2bd280684e096088e4ce7dbb89e77376"
        ),
    )
);

Example of the Upgrade add-on you can find here.