Hi folks,

Looking to find some answers to a couple of questions, if anyone can assist, it would be gratefully appreciated.

I've been playing around with Joomla 1.5.20 for a little while now and have added a few modules, etc., and removed a few that I was not so happy with, etc., as you do when you're experimenting. Obviously one of the side effects has been some "bloat"

I'd like to re-install my content onto a clean install with minimal extra components and have identified the following db tables as the most important to transfer:

jos_categories
jos_comprofiler_lists
jos_contact_details
jos_content
jos_content_frontpage
jos_menu
jos_menu_types
jos_modules
jos_modules_menu
jos_sections
jos_users
jos_weblinks

Can anyone advise if they have been down this path before and if I have made any glaring exceptions / omissions or confirm if I am on the right path?

Many thanks,
customscollector

If you have access to PHPMyadmin then it is easy to take a dump of the sql tables and upload them to your new site.

Why not run a copy on your local machine to test the effect?

Cheers
Ian

Ywsolution,

Yup, pretty much your suggestion is what I carried out. I did an incremental dump of some of the database tables and checked for the result.

Here's what I found:

jos_categories
joc_contact_details
jos_content
jos_content_frontpage

Initial dump and upload into clean installation, no visible effect to begin with, however, the frontpage of the site became active with the jos_content_frontpage data pared with jos_content.

jos_modules
jos_modules_menu
jos_sections
jos_session
jos_users
jos_weblinks

Dump of data and upload into clean installation, structure started to become visible, with menus rebuilding. Admin access, even though I had uploaded jos_users, the majority were not visible.

Earlier, in another install I was mucking about with, I'd had a problem uninstalling a google analytics module / plugin. Eventually I found that I had to strip any reference to GA from the data held in the jos_modules and jos_modules_menu.

Finally, to bring all of the users back on line and visible in the admin backend, I uploaded the following data dump tables:

jos_core_acl_aro
jos_core_acl_aro_groups
jos_core_acl_aro_map
jos_core_acl_aro_sections
jos_core_acl_aro_groups_map

Lastly, as I am using community builder, I uploaded jos_comprofiler_lists after installing Community Builder.

Obviously, in order to tweak things back to the original site settings (minus the original 'bloat') which was my ultimate goal, there were a few things to be modified as usual in the admin backend, such as minor settings associated with visible menu items and the like.

Phew!! That was a big dive into some of the code behind Joomla!!

Thanks all for the assists with this and previous other questions for a noob.

Customscollector