Updating phpWebsite the easy way!

Yesterday I decided to update one of my sites to the latest version of phpWebsite. I had already transferred the file to website when I accidentally went into the Fantastico script facility. I had used Fantastico to install phpWebsite successfully. I assumed Fantastico was used to “just” install new applications. Updates are much harder than clean installs. So I was surprised to see it tell me that some of my applications were out of date and that I could update them. I know I had gone into Fantastico before and never saw these messages. Since I had a current backup and already had a copy of the config.php and my customized theme directory I decided to give it a try. It worked! Better yet my customized theme and my third party mods still worked despite the disclaimer messages from Fantastico. Fantastico is great!