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I'd been managing a Dokeos platform for about 6 years now. Being a php and sql autodidact, I was quit happy to keep it running stable all these years.

After the Dokeos-Chamilo split up last year, I'd been closely monitoring the development in both platforms. It became quit clear that Chamilo was taking the developmental route that most fit our purposes. We need an elo fit for a secondary school (14 to 18 yo).

In December we decided to move our platform from a hosted environment to a VPS. This would guarantee more stability and better performance.

Deciding on the move, we also decided to migrate a Dokeos 185 to Chamilo 1871.

Things got more complicated as we were running a plugin on the system called campus. It basically is an extension which allows you to monitor students, rosters, teachers and material in Dokeos. The perfect add on to the system for a secondary (or high) school. (More info: www.openelo.be, author: Ludwig Theunis)

Migrating the Dokeos site from one host to another was relatively easy but still took some T&E and tweaking. I might post on the procedure later.

Updating to Chamilo was more tricky. As the platform is loaded with courses, the main Dtabase had about 14.800(!) tables. In upgrading a series of new tables for each course had to be created and the courses needed to be reassembled in a new table. You can understand, this was a tricky procedure.

After upgrading we got stuck with two major bugs:

We were unable to acces the courses. They were simply not visible on the My Courses page. We managed to fix this with a script provided by Yannick Warnier (one of the developers of Chamilo). I'll attach the script somewhere on my Tumblr-stakeout. (forum post on chamilo.org)

We couldn't edit the course introductions anymore. It was an update bug. When I created a new course, the introduction was editable. We were able to fix the problem by adding a column in the course_info table of each seperate course. We did this using an SQL-query we generated in a spreadsheet. (more info on chamilo.org)

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