How to install Information Exchange
Please make sure you read our licensing before continuing.
Requirements for InfoExchange
- A webserver capable of running PHP (we used Apache)
- PHP 4.3 or greater
- MySQL 4 or greater
Quick guide
1 Make sure you meet the requirements listed above
2 Obtain a copy of the software from our download page
3 Uncompress the software in a web accessible folder (tar -zxvf, unzip etc)
4 Use the SQL creation script
5 Edit includes/config.inc.php and set the database variables and email variables
6 Navigate to the site and log in as an administrator (admin/test)
7 Use the software - please view down below the section titled "Translation Notes"
2 Obtain a copy of the software from our download page
3 Uncompress the software in a web accessible folder (tar -zxvf, unzip etc)
4 Use the SQL creation script
5 Edit includes/config.inc.php and set the database variables and email variables
6 Navigate to the site and log in as an administrator (admin/test)
7 Use the software - please view down below the section titled "Translation Notes"
The Longer, more detailed guide
1 Make sure that you have PHP 4.3+ or MySQL 4 on your server.
- create a script with just phpinfo(); in it to obtain information about your copy of PHP, or if you have shell access and a CLI version of PHP you can use php -version
- to obtain your MySQL version you can type mysql -v
2 Visit our download page and pick the appropriate version and appropriate archive form. Windows users probably want the .zip file and Unix/Linux (this includes OSX) users probably want the .tar.gz
3 Decompression
- Users with a .zip file can use Win Zip or another utility to uncompress
- Users with a .tar.gz file can either use Win Rar (windows) or use tar -zxvf infox-whatever.tar.gz (Unix/Linux and variants)
where # represents a number in your file name (eg infox-0.98.tar.gz)
4 mysql -u (username) -P < dump.sql from the /sql directory
5 Edit includes/config.inc.php and at least set up the database variables and the email url
6 Go to wherever you put the installation - for example http://localhost/infox-0.98/ - and log in with the upper left hand corner, using the pair "admin" and "test" as username/password
7 Read the section below titled "Translation Notes"
Now that you're set up, read our help for more details!
Translation Note
Right now Info-Exchange is rigged to provide both a Spanish and English version, the default language is set to Spanish. If you want to view the english version without being logged in append ?l=en to any URL.
If you want to change the dictionary please edit the database tables lang_en and lang_es respectively. If you edit any of the KEY field, or add new ones you will need to go into the PHP and edit the translate() call for that string. If you wish to add a new dictionary, make it lang_[tag] and go into the languages table and insert a record with the tag, description and enabled (set to either 0 or 1). Then insert the translation into lang_[tag] for all the keys in the system.
Hint: it might help to dump lang_en or lang_es to get all the keys. phpMyAdmin is quite nice, or you can find another front-end tool on the web.
Adding pages is easy:
- Write the PHP
- Instead of plaintext, have a call to translate() on a key for the new text
- Insert records into the DB for all the languages for the new key
Adding a dictionary:
- Create a table called lang_tag (where tag is like en, esr, es, fr) with the structure of lang_tag(KEY, value) where KEY is also a primary key/unique. Both fields are varchar.
- Insert a record into languages, example: INSERT INTO languages(tag,description,enabled) VALUES('en','English',1)
- Do a bunch of inserts for the KEY value, with the string value being your languages' equivalent.
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