Upgrade from 3.4.3 on J! 1.5 to 4.5.3 on new J!3

Hi guys,

I know that there's a huge thread on upgrading, but all the info seems to be so spread out and convoluted. Is there a set of steps I can use to migrate? Both installations are on the same server, just in different folders. I did a backup of the tables on the old install, but couldn't get the new install to see the data.

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you in advance!

-Jason

You know there is a FAQ ( www.sermonspeaker.net/faq.html ) item with step by step instructions?

I thought I looked there, but must have missed it. Thanks for pointing that out to me! Sorry I missed the obvious.

No problem

OK - so I followed the instructions, and it failed with sql errors when trying to pull up the sermons, then I read on the forum that I should only try the migration to 4.0, then update the 4.0 installation. The problem now is that I can't install 4.0 on Joomla 3. It gives me the following:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method JController::getInstance() in /home/ffunky/public_html/fs3/administrator/components/com_sermonspeaker/sermonspeaker.php on line 19

Any further suggestions? I love your sermonspeaker package and have been using it for a long time. I'd hate to have to re-insert all the sermons. :huh:

As a followup - here's the sql errors when I try to migrate to the 4.5.3 version:

SQL=SELECT speakers.id As value,CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(c_speakers.title) THEN CONCAT(speakers.name, " (", c_speakers.title, ")") ELSE speakers.name END AS text FROM gtfm2_sermon_speakers AS speakers LEFT JOIN gtfm2_categories AS c_speakers ON c_speakers.id = speakers.catid WHERE speakers.state = 1 ORDER BY speakers.name