Installation of OpenBiblio using EasyPHP

Vimal Kumar V.

Asian School of Business

Requirements

• Windows XP• EasyPHP 1.8 (www.easyphp.org )• OpenBiblio 0.6.1(http://obiblio.sourceforge.net/ )

Software Category: Library Management System

Programming Language: PHP

Database: MySQL

Webserver: Apache

License: GPL

Installation of EasyPHP

• Double-click on the downloaded executable file.

After installation, a short cut to EasyPHP is created in the directory "Start/Programs/EasyPHP". When EasyPHP is launched, an icon appears beside the clock. A menu for appears when Right Click on the EasyPHP task bar icon,

Click on “Administration” option. You can see the following page if no errors in the installation process.

Right Click on the easyphp icon on the windows taskbar and select the option ‘Administration’.

Then a Easyphp administration screen will appear and click on MANAGE DATABASE button on the screen.

Then PhpMyAdmin screen appears. Type database name OpenBiblio in the text box and click on ‘Create Button’

From the next screen click on “SQL” option,

This action leads you to SQL query area. Type this query in the following screen “grant all on OpenBiblio.* to librarian@localhost identified by ‘secret’ “and click ‘GO’ button. Here secret is the database password. You can give a strong password instead of secret.

Download OpenBiblio software file from http://obiblio.sourceforge.net/. Extract your OpenBiblio compressed file using winzip, Winrar or 7zip software.

Copy the unzipped directory to C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\www.

Open C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\www\ database_constants.php in word pad or note pad.

Replace Database username and password as in the following picture.

Create a directory “C:/tmp” .

Open C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\conf_files/php.ini file and find

session.save_path = "${path}\tmp\“

and replace like this,

session.save_path = "C:\tmp"

1.Open a new browser window and type http://localhost/openbiblio/install/index.php in the address bar. Then welcome page of installation opens,

Select the language and check Install Test Data option. Click Install button.

If settings are normal, final installation screen will appears like this.

Click on start using OpenBiblio. This leads to welcome screen of OpenBiblio.

Remove the openbiblio/install directory completelyGo to Admin page. Enter username and password “admin” and do more settings.

Vimal Kumar V.Asst. Librarian

Asian School of BusinessTechnopark

Trivandrum-695 581India

www.asbindia.in/vimal

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