Converting template variables from EE2 to EE5
How Do I?
I recently upgraded from EE2 to EE5 (on a site that I did not build, unfortunately). Now, on the site I have several places where I see codes like this:
{our_story:description}I’m just trying to figure out where these variables can be access in the EE2 admin for me to see what code is inside them, and also how to recreate these types of variables in EE5.
If anyone has specific documentation links for both or other insight that would be greatly appreciated.
Excited to get started with managing an EE site…always wanted to see what the CMS has to offer!
Just to provide some follow up, it seems that somehow all of the template groups and templates were copied over during the upgrade, but they were copied with some older version that I’m not even sure where it came from.
So for example I have a group called “components” with a template called “marquee”. Old EE2, the code is (for example):
<div class="some-class">Some content</div>But after the upgrade, the template is there but with different code inside of it:
<div class="some-other-class">Some other content</div>Does anyone have any insight as to why this happened? I have a /templates folder on EE2 that has all the correct code as .html files. Is there a way to import all of these to EE5?
OK so it looks like that old code is actually stored in my database. The code I want to use is stored in template files at /system/user/templates/default_site.
So I guess the question now is how do I force the template engine to read from my files instead of the database?
Sounds like your files got out of sync with the DB, which should happen automatically. If you are before the upgrade, hit the manual sync button on the Template Manager to make sure they are in sync. If you’re post upgrade, just replace the files in the file system with the correct files.
Boom! Replaced the files and now we’re good. Thanks again for all of your help getting me up and running.
Rockin!