I am getting messages in my admin tool that we need to upgrade our php. Since our install is on AWS, the recomended upgrade path there is to launch a new instance with the upgraded stack, php, and mysql.

I have done this and we now have an instance that is running mysql 7.0.2 and mysql 5.7.9. I uploaded the dir structure to my old instance and now I am wondering what to do next.

Can you outline next steps to:

1) get the DB imported
2) change config files to now sun on new server

thanks,

Jilll

Permalink can only contain these chars (a-z0-9/-.)!

This is the code:

// create custom permalink on first save of record
    if ($tableName == 'newsroom' && !$oldRecord) {
        echo $prefix . @$_REQUEST['category'] .'/'. @$_REQUEST['title'];
        
      $_REQUEST['permalink'] =  $prefix . @$_REQUEST['category'] ."/". @$_REQUEST['title'];
    }

in my testing I add the echo to see what was being passed in and it does not include any bad characters:

news/Video Advertising/Test Permalink Permalink can only contain these chars (a-z0-9/-.)

I created a new folder called permalink_custom and put the code from the above post in that folder as permalink_custom.php

I activated my new plugin, but nothing happens when I save an article post...I am wondering how custom plugins work and exactly how I need to set this up inorder to put the category field from my article table into the permalink url.

thanks,

Jill

Error:
Notice: Undefined index: defaultValue in /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/cmsb/plugins/permalinks/permalinks_pluginsMenu.php on line 150
mysql_count() MySQL Error: Unknown column 'permalink' in 'where clause'
 - in permalinks_pluginsMenu.php on line 154 by mysql_count()

Please advise. Am I missing a step?