Migrating from TBS 1.97.12 to current version

Hello,

I'm maintaining a Webseite which is now over 5 years old and uses TBS 1.97.12.
I didn't initially create this Webseite, however I'm now maintaining the site for about 1 1/2 years - so I know the code quite well.

My question now, is it reasonable to migrate or would it end up being almost as much work as a rewrite. The Templates are clean html div templates, the php code behind it is not that well structured but I know my ways around. The site has about 25 templates.

And if I migrate, can I expect significant performance increases? (like 30%+)
Some pages right now take quite long to load (about 2 seconds merge time) and I already eliminated tbs.checks inside loops.

Appreciate your answers.

Kind regard
Thomas

Hi Tomas,

25 templates is not that much. I think it should worth to be migrated.
TBS 3 is quite much more fast than all previous versions, and has new features that should make easier to build templates.
TBS 3 is also very good for PHP 5. Even if you have PHP 4 it is interesting to know that a migration to PHP 5 will be easy.

You can see the changes above between versions, they are not that much.

Changes from TBS 1.x to 2.x:
http://www.tinybutstrong.com/support/changelog_tbs2.htm#changelog_2_00

Changes from TBS 2.x to 3.x:
http://www.tinybutstrong.com/support/tbs_v3_whatsnew.htm

And if your application is slow, jut read this:
http://www.tinybutstrong.com/support.php#faq_slow

Hi Skrol29,

Thank you very much.
I have successfully migrated to 2.05 and the site runs already about twice as fast.
I will migrate to 3.51 and PHP 5 soon as well, I already tested the site on 3.51 and it works mostly - except cache & selected. So I decided to setup the plugins and migrate to PHP 5 as a next step.

Appreciate your work very much.

Kind regards