How it works

This section describes the basic functionality of the LiteCommerce Live Updating add-on module. This add-on module is meant for tracking and applying updates and patches to a working LiteCommerce-based online store.

The process of updating your store consists of three steps:

Checking for updates

You can choose to do this manually or automatically. It is possible to check for updates as often as once every 24 hours. The Live Updating add-on module checks if there are any core updates available for the installed version of LiteCommerce and module updates or newer versions available for the installed modules only.

Downloading updates

To be able to apply the updates first you need to download them. All the updates are subdivided into three groups:

•	new feature - an improvement of the existing functionality or a new feature added;

•	minor update - a small bugfix or correction;

•	critical update - a major bugfix or an important improvement.

Applying updates

There is no way to choose which updates to apply. Only all available updates together can be applied. This is done to provide the system integrity. For example, if things go wrong during the update, you can always roll back the changes made to your system and revert to the old version.

The patches are not applied directly to the live store. All the files are copied to a temporary directory and the changes are made there. Only after all the files have been patched successfully they are copied to the working area.

If it is possible, the Live Updating add-on module does not overwrite the modified template pages, so all your design modifications are left untouched.