cpg 1.6 and smf 2.1.4 question

[Dark_Angel]

/asking questions before I do it. I am forced to do this upgrade due to PHP going to 8.3

Iam using right now smf 2.0.19 but am having to upgrade to 2.1+ I do have Coppermine Photo Gallery 1.6.09 (stable) and it gave us the dickens to install it due to many errors. It was supposed to be bridged but it would not behave. So although it appears to be bridged, the darn thing is not associated with the member list of the forum.

My question is I am most likely to have to upgrade the forum, use my forums current database but do I then just add the database from the existing gallery to the forum database or install the gallery fresh into the DB then import the existing db into it?

After 17 years of not needing to do anything but minor updates I feel like a total newbie, sorry.

[phill104]

Bridging does not need database manipulation. What it does is just points to the members and permissions details of the bridged application instead of using the coppermine version. So no need to import or fiddle with any of the databases.

I would suggest you start by upgrading to CPG version 1.6.26 using the installer stub to upgrade - https://github.com/coppermine-gallery/cpg1.6.x/releases

[Dark_Angel]

OK, I can try that, should I first add the cpg "now" gallery tables to the forum's DB? They are not on the same database. I have no idea what the bridges user pass is either it has been so long.