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Site Store Pro™
ASP to PHP Store Conversion Guide
PREPARING YOUR INSTALL FOR CONVERSION FROM ASP TO PHP VERSION
TRANSFER THE DATA TABLES FROM YOUR SQL SERVER DATABASE TO YOUR MYSQL DB
SETUP THE NEW STORE AND SKIN THE CART FILES TO MATCH DESIGN
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This guide is intended for conversion of NON-CUSTOMIZED versions of the Site
Store Pro ASP shopping cart. Although the vast majority of customer
customizations requests in the ASP version were included in the default PHP
public release, your install may contain custom features that will not
automatically convert over to the PHP version. If you have questions about the
conversion compatibility of your current ASP installation, please contact support
and we will provide a free conversion analysis of your live ASP enabled store.
Site Store Pro, Inc also offers complete conversion services from ASP to PHP
versions of Site Store Pro for developers who do not want to do the conversion
themselves. The conversion fee for a NON-customized version of Site Store Pro
ASP to Site Store Pro PHP is typically a one-time charge of $225.00. Customized
installs will be more expensive since any customizations not included in the
default PHP release will have to be recoded in PHP. If you would like us to convert
your ASP install to Site Store Pro PHP, please contact [email protected] for
a quote.
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Preparing Your Install For Conversion From ASP to PHP Version
Conversion of Site Store Pro ASP to PHP takes a minimum of 3 hours but may take longer
depending on if you are also converting your non-ecommerce content (pages) to php, if you are
also running a mobile version and need to convert those pages as well and the amount of data
you have stored in your current MSSQL database.
To prepare your install to be converted from Site Store Pro ASP to PHP do the following first
before anything else
1) Setup a new hosting account that support PHP |MySQL or a temporary folder on your
existing hosting account (if is supports PHP and MySQL) for your new installation.
2) Extract the files from your Site Store Pro PHP zip file (new installation folder) to a
directory on your local development system as per the instructions in the install guide.
(http://www.sitestorepro.com/SiteStorePro_PHP_Installation_Guide.pdf)
3) Download all your main site (non shopping cart) content (i.e. root pages), images and
the following directories to a development folder on your local system where you
extracted the files above:
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/css/
/store_content/
(if prompted to overwrite existing files, select "yes" to all)
4) Create a new MySQL database and do a "clean" install using the
SSPRO_MYSQL_CLEAN_INSTALL.sql script that is located in the MySQL_Database folder
of your PHP version installation zip file as per the instructions in the install guide.
(http://www.sitestorepro.com/SiteStorePro_PHP_Installation_Guide.pdf)
or via the KB Article:
http://www.sitestorepro.com/mysupport/KB/a59/setup-the-site-store-pro-sql-serverdatabase.aspx
After you have complete the steps above you are now ready to migrate the data off your
current live ASP version hosting account to your new PHP install.
We recommend taking the live Site Store Pro ASP store offline when doing the conversion or
you may have to copy over the products, orders and customers data twice if the data changes
between the time you copy the data off your MSSQL database to the time you launch your new
PHP enabled store.
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Transfer the Data Tables From Your SQL Server database to your MySQL DB
We developed the Site Store Pro MySQL database so existing products, orders and customers can be
transferred from the Site Store Pro ASP/MSSQL server version without losing any data or product
options associations.
You can use any program that supports MSSQL to MySQL database conversion to do the data migration.
However, we recommend either Navicat Premium or DBConvert since both of the programs are easy to
use and seem to do the conversion job with the least amount of issues.
You can do a complete database conversion from your existing Site Store Pro MSSQL database to your
"clean" MySQL Site Store Pro database and any tables that are not used in the new version will just be
ignored on the new install.
However, if you only want to copy over the necessary tables so your MYSQL database does not contain
unused tables, below is the complete list of all tables that are used in both the MSSQL and MYSQL
databases .
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sitestorepro_affiliate_levels
sitestorepro_affiliates_content
sitestorepro_affiliates_payments
sitestorepro_content_shopping_cart
sitestorepro_discounts
sitestorepro_discounts_configuration
sitestorepro_error_messages
sitestorepro_event_directors
sitestorepro_event_locations
sitestorepro_faqs
sitestorepro_faqs_cats
sitestorepro_faqs_subcat
sitestorepro_giftwrap_fees
sitestorepro_handling_charges
sitestorepro_handling_fees
sitestorepro_home_page_gallery
sitestorepro_manufacturers
sitestorepro_orderdetails
sitestorepro_order_giftwrap
sitestorepro_orders
sitestorepro_out_stock_messages
sitestorepro_payment_types
sitestorepro_prod_activations
sitestorepro_prod_colors
sitestorepro_prod_colors_assoc
sitestorepro_prod_crosssell
sitestorepro_prod_download_log
sitestorepro_prod_images
sitestorepro_prod_input_fields
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sitestorepro_prod_materials
sitestorepro_prod_materials_assoc
sitestorepro_prod_personalization
sitestorepro_prod_reviews
sitestorepro_prod_review_types
sitestorepro_prod_size_assoc
sitestorepro_prod_sizes
sitestorepro_prod_styles
sitestorepro_prod_user_option1
sitestorepro_prod_user_option2
sitestorepro_prodcategory
sitestorepro_prodsubcat
sitestorepro_products
sitestorepro_products_inventory_levels
sitestorepro_shipping_messages
sitestorepro_shop_by_occasion_associations
sitestorepro_shop_by_occasion_list
sitestorepro_shop_by_style_associations
sitestorepro_shop_by_style_list
sitestorepro_site_news
sitestorepro_store_footer
sitestorepro_store_header
sitestorepro_testimonials
sitestorepro_users
sitestorepro_users_wishlists
sitestorepro_valuedcustomermessages
When you are doing the data conversion from MS SQL server to MySQL, you may be prompted that
some of the primary index key names are too long for MySQL.
If you receive this error, simply rename the indexes to shorter names via your SQL management tool and
then retry the conversion process.
*** if you are required to rename SQL indexes before completing the data migration (conversion) , we
highly recommend making a backup copy (new database) of your live MS SQL server database first and
doing the index renames on the backup (not-live) SQL server database and then using the backup copy
for the data transfer source database.
After you have completed the database conversion and have copied all the data tables from your
current MSSQL server database (source) to your new Site Store Pro PHP MySQL database (destination),
edit the connection string in /Connections/SiteStoreProDB.php to reflect the credentials for your MySQL
db as per the install guide (http://www.sitestorepro.com/SiteStorePro_PHP_Installation_Guide.pdf)
and then post all the files in your local development folder for your PHP version up to your temporary
PHP hosting account or testing directory.
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SETUP THE NEW STORE AND SKIN THE CART FILES TO MATCH DESIGN
After you have copied up your all your Site Store Pro PHP files and /store_content/ folder from
to your PHP hosting account or server, go to /estore_admin/ to activate your install with your
PHP version serial number and email address as per the install guide.
if you receive a PHP error we accessing the /estore_admin/ folder, your MySQL database
connection credentials are incorrect in /Connections/SiteStoreProDB.php. Please consult this
KB article for help on setting up your connection string credentials:
http://www.sitestorepro.com/mysupport/KB/a286/edit-database-connection-file-to-matchyour-database.aspx
Note: Due to different encryption and security on the PHP version, admin accounts from the
ASP version database will not be carried over to the new PHP install and you will need to
recreate the admin login accounts.
After you have activated your installation and it is running on the new php hosting account, you
will need to setup the following elements on the new install:
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User Registration Forms
Email Content
Shipping Setup and Preferences
Download & Ship Settings for Downloadable Items that use the "Download | Ship " feature. (this only
applies to downloadable items that are using the download/ship optional feature. Any regular
products, events and downloadable items without the download\ship feature will function without any
setup changes.
Checkout Provider (payment processor) settings.
After you have setup the registration forms, email content, shipping preferences,
download/ship item settings and payment processor setting, you just need to modify the
sample store cart files to match your current site design by editing the Dreamweaver DWT files
as per the design integration guide or by following the tutorial at :
http://www.sitestorepro.com/tutorials/design_integration.asp
After you have modified the PHP cart files to match your design. You should test the store
thoroughly to make sure that all features are working the same as your previous ASP
installation. Please follow the "10 steps before launch" document below before switching your
new PHP store to live status:
http://www.sitestorepro.com/10_Things_Before_SiteStorePro_Store_Launch.pdf
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