Upgrading themes to 4.4

For the most part, themes created for Invision Community 4.3 should work without modification on Invision Community 4.4. However, for sites with more heavily customized themes, there may be some manual updates you will need to make to ensure compatibility.

The document below outlines the areas you should review. We'll update the document as and when we identify particular areas that may be causing upgrade problems.

lazyLoadEnabled: {{if \IPS\Settings::i()->lazy_load_enabled}}true{{else}}false{{endif}},
blankImg: "{expression="\IPS\Text\Parser::blankImage()"}",

If you have modified any of the record view templates in Pages, you may encounter a template error after upgrading. The format of data passed to generate the next unread record link has changed.

In your database record template change:

<div class='ipsGrid ipsGrid_collapsePhone ipsPager ipsClearfix ipsSpacer_top'>
	<div class="ipsGrid_span6 ipsType_left ipsPager_prev">
		{{if $record::database()->use_categories}}
			<a href="{$record->container()->url()}" title="{lang="cms_back_to_category_with_title" sprintf="$record->container()->_title"}" rel="up">
				<span class="ipsPager_type">{lang="cms_back_to_category" sprintf="$record::database()->recordWord( 2 )"}</span>
				<span class="ipsPager_title ipsType_light ipsTruncate ipsTruncate_line">{lang="$record->container()->_title"}</span>
			</a>
		{{else}}
			{{$page = \IPS\cms\Pages\Page::$currentPage;}}
			<a href="{$page->url()}" title="{lang="cms_back_to_category_with_title" sprintf="$page->_title"}" rel="up">
				<span class="ipsPager_type">{lang="cms_back_to_category" sprintf="$record::database()->recordWord( 2 )"}</span>
				<span class="ipsPager_title ipsType_light ipsTruncate ipsTruncate_line">{$page->_title}</span>
			</a>
		{{endif}}
	</div>
	{{if $nextUnread !== NULL}}
		<div class='ipsGrid_span6 ipsType_right ipsPager_next'>
			<a href="{$nextUnread->url()->setQueryString( array( 'do' => 'getNewComment' ) )}" title='{lang="cms_view_next_unread_title" sprintf="$record::database()->recordWord( 1 )"}'>
				<span class="ipsPager_type">{lang="cms_next_unread_title" sprintf="$record::database()->recordWord( 1 )"}</span>
				<span class="ipsPager_title ipsType_light ipsTruncate ipsTruncate_line">{$nextUnread->mapped('title')}</span>
			</a>
		</div>
	{{endif}}
</div>

To:

<div class='ipsGrid ipsGrid_collapsePhone ipsPager ipsClearfix ipsSpacer_top'>
	<div class="ipsGrid_span6 ipsType_left ipsPager_prev ipsPager_noDesc">
		{{if $record::database()->use_categories}}
			<a href="{$record->container()->url()}" title="{lang="cms_back_to_category_with_title" sprintf="$record->container()->_title"}" rel="up">
				<span class="ipsPager_type">{lang="cms_back_to_category" sprintf="$record::database()->recordWord( 2 )"}</span>
			</a>
		{{else}}
			{{$page = \IPS\cms\Pages\Page::$currentPage;}}
			<a href="{$page->url()}" title="{lang="cms_back_to_category_with_title" sprintf="$page->_title"}" rel="up">
				<span class="ipsPager_type">{lang="cms_back_to_category" sprintf="$record::database()->recordWord( 2 )"}</span>
			</a>
		{{endif}}
	</div>
	{{if $nextUnread !== NULL}}
		<div class='ipsGrid_span6 ipsType_right ipsPager_next ipsPager_noDesc'>
			<a href="{$record->url()->setQueryString( array( 'do' => 'nextUnread' ) )}" title='{lang="cms_view_next_unread_title" sprintf="$record::database()->recordWord( 1 )"}'>
				<span class="ipsPager_type">{lang="cms_next_unread_title" sprintf="$record::database()->recordWord( 1 )"}</span>
			</a>
		</div>
	{{endif}}
</div>

This change also affects topic view, however you should use the built-in template editor tools to compare and update your custom template.

If you see an error accessing your records (or in the system log) that use a custom template such as "Total count attempted on a query not ran with SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS" you will need to make some changes to your template to make it compatible with 4.4.

Change (2 instances) of

{template="follow" app="core" group="global" params="'cms', 'records'.$record::$customDatabaseId, $record->primary_id_field, $record->followers()->count( TRUE )"}

To

{template="follow" app="core" group="global" params="'cms', 'records'.$record::$customDatabaseId, $record->primary_id_field, $record->followersCount()"}