Server requirements

• A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System
• MySQL database (4.1.15 or higher)
• PHP (4.4.1 or higher) with MySQL support

How to install phpCAMALEO

1. Decompress the phpCAMALEO archive to a local directory on your system.


2. Upload all the files contained in this archive (retaining the directory structure) to a web accessible directory on your server or hosting account.


3. Within your FTP Client change the permissions to 777 on:
   • /tmp
   • /private
   • /skins/phpCAMALEO/lang/eng
   • /skins/1st-tutorial/lang/eng
   
   If you plan to edit the skins contents, you will also need to change the permissions to 777 on:
   • /skins/ice/lang/eng
   • /skins/ocean/lang/eng
   • /skins/sunset/lang/eng


4. Using your web browser visit the location you placed phpCAMALEO, e.g. http://localhost/phpCAMALEO/, http://www.mydomain.com/phpCAMALEO/ etc.


5. Follow the installation procedure


6. Within your FTP Client change the permissions to 555 on:
   • /private
     WARNING! You should consider to password protect this directory with an .htaccess/.htpassword set!


7. Delete the /install directory


8. phpCAMALEO should now be available =)

Version history

25 October 2006 @> 0.0.2

bug fixes:

• solved a security issue appearing only if register_globals was set to on;
• fixed few minor aesthetic issues in several pages like, for example, the $_SESSION and $_SERVER pages now showing the same colors scheme in all skins and with a more clear way.

new features:

• Skins manager
• reorganized a bit the look of this page, I am still not fully happy with it so expect more changes later;
• added the ability to export only the phpCAMALEO and the selected skin;
• enhanced the code that writes the sql data file during the export; a disabled import skin button is there to remind me that feature is still to be done =)


• NEWS scroller
• news are now saved in a MySQL database;
• feeding is done through an AJAX script;
• an interface lets the user choose the speed at which the news are shown and to quickly load the previous|next item;
• the news artwork is now only available as a separate download;
• news can have their own link to let the user open the related link; if the news has a link a small dot in the middle of the 'wait, getting a news...' animation is lighted (on the right side of the news interface);
• the last news ID is saved in a $_SESSION variable, letting the user be presented with all the news during the site visit; when the end of the database is reached, news the pointer is resetted to the top;
• added the news administration page within the admin home page, available after you login.


• Slide show
• it is now possible to easily create a slide show: to quickly get an idea of how it looks like click here;
• all images found in a specific directory — skins/{yourskin}/img/rollimg — are automatically feeded by an AJAX script;
• the last image ID is saved in a $_SESSION variable, letting the slide show to present the complete sequence of all the available images during the site visit; when the last image is shown, the pointer is resetted to the first image.


• Googles & other advertisment
• I know, it's becoming boring to see all that banners... Anyways, I will keep the phpCAMALEO banners as low as possible.
  Actually ads are simply defined as costants in a separate include, later these will be moved to another MySQL db. If you are showing ads on your site(s) you will find the coming feature very useful.


• Downloads
• amended some code in the GetText.php to better organize the automatic list of downloadable files;
• show_img.php renamed to show_pop.php and amended to display also text files.

2 October 2006 @> 0.0.1a

bug fixes:

• under certain circumstances, a page reload was causing an infinite loop preventing the site to be shown;
• added the GALLERY menu item to show some screen shots of sites made with phpCAMALEO; the code handling the GALLERY page is able to automatically handle the image files included in a specific directory.

30 September 2006 @> 0.0.1

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