Upgrading Drupal

I've almost successfully upgraded to 4.6.3 from 4.0.0 ( phew! ) but have a bug when comments are posted.

I am new to Drupal. I have trying to upgade our application from drupal version 4.4.1 to 4.6.3.
Most bits work ok. However the following line of code has stopped working in the new version of drupal.

$output .= form_item(t("Grading Bands"), "Low < > Medium < > High", t(""));

I am sorry its a long line of code. Does anyone know what I need to change for it to work in new version?

Many Thanks.

I have operating a drupal ver 3.23.52 in site http://bibliotecas.reduaz.mx

But I want to emigrate to Drupal ver 4.x, and I want to know which are the steps one for one to do it.

I was view the handbook and check it but on my server dont have the settings.php file. please give me the steps to make the upgrate the most easy and secure possible...

Thank you, I am the same beginner

I have to replace an existing server with the new one. Old one is Fedora Core 3 based server with the latest update of PHP available for it (version 4.3) and the latest 4.1.14 version of MySQL (from www.mysql.com site; default character set of the database and tables is UTF-8, default collation is utf8_general_ci). phpinfo() shows old version 3.23 communication with MySQL (shared-compat installed). Drupal version is 4.6.3. The site is in Slovenian language, with accented letters (č, š and ž). On the new server, there are serialize() errors reported and almost no content is displayed. I've found out the reason must be a character handling.

To be precise, the old system stored everything in pure UTF-8 format to a database (as displayed with phpMyAdmin or MySQL Query Browser). Now, on the new system, when these strings are handled by drupal, something goes terribly wrong.

I've also installed a new drupal 4.6.3 test site. Entering our accented letters there was a problem with a small letter c-caron (č). All others were displayed correctly, but that one was messed. This problem was resolved by replacing the original 4.1.12 MySQL (comming with Fedora 4) with the MySQL 4.1.14 one (from www.mysql.com, glibc 2.3 version - exactly the same as on the old system...).

Now, all letters on the new server are displayed OK, but this is not resolving the basic problem. Looking at the underlying MySQL database, I see our accented characters were not stored as UTF-8 (everything, the database itself and tables all have default character set UTF-8 and character collation utf8_general_ci, exactly as on the old server), but as 2 weird characters (most probably 2 bytes from UTF-8 character - Č is stored as 'ÄŒ', Š as 'Å ', Ž as 'Ž', č as 'č', š as 'Å¡' and ž as 'ž').

After upgrading from 4.5 my images all disappeared. I sorted that out by specifying the directory, copying the images over etc. But now I can' add a new gallery. Actually, that's not true. I created a new gallery and it looks fine, but I can't add images to it. When I do "create content" -> "image" and try to upload an image, the page just refreshes, but the image isn't added to the gallery or /files/images there is a copy of the image in /files/images/temp however. Can anyone suggest a methodology for troubleshooting this?

I have two sites using Drupal. The first site is ver 4.6.0 and on that site under "Administer/Access control" I have the following menu choices:

Permissions | Category Permissions | Roles | Account Rules

The second site I using Drupal 4.6.3 and I have the same modules enabled on both sites but the menu choices under "Administer/Access control" I have the following menu choices:

Permissions | Roles | Account Rules

I have been unable to find any way to get Category Permissions in 4.6.3

Is it on longer available in 4.6.3?