https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: migrating from localhost to production site - best approach? en Tue, 26 May 2026 16:09:45 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/migrating-from-localhost-to-production-site-best-approach#post-21861 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:28:20 +0000 anujagrawal 21861@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>ok thanks. So what's the trick to updating themes from one environment to another? copy the directory? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/migrating-from-localhost-to-production-site-best-approach#post-21857 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:06:26 +0000 yuniar 21857@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>The new form id will always be assigned when you do the import. The new export/import tool is not really designed to sync your forms unfortunately, so each time you do an update and import it again, it will considered as a new form and won't update any existing form.</p> <p>At this moment the export/import tool only include the form, not themes. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/migrating-from-localhost-to-production-site-best-approach#post-21834 Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:18:56 +0000 anujagrawal 21834@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Yuniar - will a new form Id only be assigned if there is a conflict or will it do it everytime? If it does it everytime, that is likely to need pages that have referenced the form ID to require updating and that will not be good. Also, if an existing form is updated, will it go thru this same process I.e. A new form ID would be generated for each update?</p> <p>Also, you mentioned form export/import, will that include any themes as well?</p> <p>Thanks. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/migrating-from-localhost-to-production-site-best-approach#post-21830 Sat, 20 Sep 2014 06:22:39 +0000 yuniar 21830@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>When the form file is being imported, MachForm will assign new form id to prevent conflict. The only requirement is the destination machform must have the same or newer version. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/migrating-from-localhost-to-production-site-best-approach#post-21829 Sat, 20 Sep 2014 06:16:09 +0000 anujagrawal 21829@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Thanks jhinkle and yuniar.</p> <p>I will look forward to the new version. I wonder how formID conflicts would be resolved. Should be interesting. Is there any documentation on any requirements in order to perform the export/import? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/migrating-from-localhost-to-production-site-best-approach#post-21824 Sat, 20 Sep 2014 05:25:26 +0000 yuniar 21824@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>We'll be releasing v4.2 next week and one of the new feature is to let you export your form into a file and then import back into another machform. </p> <p>This way, it will be easier for you to copy forms between installation without export/import on the database directly. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/migrating-from-localhost-to-production-site-best-approach#post-21821 Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:17:39 +0000 jhinkle 21821@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>With the randomized form IDs now, I do all my form creation in production. But if I were doing it the way you are, then yes, copy the data folder and do an export/import on the DB. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/migrating-from-localhost-to-production-site-best-approach#post-21820 Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:46:56 +0000 anujagrawal 21820@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>How are others doing this? Do you perform your development directly on your production server? If not, how are you moving your forms and themes up to the server? What's the recommended approach? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/migrating-from-localhost-to-production-site-best-approach#post-21800 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:24:09 +0000 anujagrawal 21800@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>As i develop my forms and php code on my localhost, is there a best practices approach to pushing all the forms, themes etc. up to the production site? Should i copy the data folder and do an export/import on the database, or is something else recommended? </p>