Upgrading

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Upgrading to a new version of LDM is straightforward:

• Follow the same process as in Installing LDM - i.e. upload the code and run the product installer

Take care:

(1) Backup your database

(2) LDM Extras

• Before upgrading from LDM versions 2.x to 3.0, you should remove all Extras and reinstall them after carrying out the upgrade.

• Similarly, when upgrading from versions 2.2.9 or earlier to version 2.3.0, you also need to reinstall all Extras.

• From version 2.3.0 onwards, the Extras' plugins form part of the "Links and Downloads Manager Extras" product. This means that they are retained when you upgrade LDM. The LDM->Admin->Plugins page will provide warnings concerning any Extras that have become out-of-date and should be upgraded.

(3) Database Tables

• If you edited local_links_init.php to modify the prefix given to the LDM database tables when you first installed LDM (see Site Configuration), remember to make the same change to the new code. Otherwise, you will find yourself looking at an empty LDM database. (The old contents have not been lost, just hidden.)

(4) Icons

LDM ships with two icons sets:

• With LDM versions 2.x, the default icon set comes from the Oxygen project. Icons are generally 22x22px in size, uploaded into forumdir/images/ldm-ox-icons and used automatically on new installations. (Existing sites need to adjust the LDM admin setting file_icons_dir.) A set from the famfamfam silk icon set is available in the extras/icon-sets/silk-icon directory in the release. These are 16x16px in size.
• With LDM versions 3.x, the reverse applies: the default icon set comes from famfamfam silk icon set and the Oxygen set is available in the extras directory. Existing sites may need to adjust the LDM admin setting file_icons_dir when upgrading to release 3.x.