Posted on May - 23 - 2010
My First Experience with Prestashop
I got a project from a freelance website which required upgrading of prestashop to version 1.2.5 from 1.1.0.5. Thought it was a very easy task.
The site is located at www.frickalia.com. Okey it was not easy. There were scripts to upgrade it automatically, but they failed.
I search through the forums, and found the solution after a lot of effort. The database schema needed to be fixed and upgraded manually. Inconsistent data needed to be removed from 1.1.0.5 version.
Anyway, after upgrading a new problem occurred which virtually shut down the website. It was the new SMTP framework of prestashop. People struggled to solve it. But everything was in vain. The shop was postponed for several months.
Then just suddenly I found a solution. Replacing the whole new SMTP framework with the older one from 1.1.0.5!
Anyway, then I built some modules for frickalia.com. It was a pain upgrading and fixing things for prestashop. And that’s why I learnt a lot of things about it fast









































