phpScheduleIt Installation
Prerequisites
- PHP 5.2 or greater.
- MySQL 5.0 or greater.
- Web server (Apache2, IIS).
- OS - Windows, Mac, *nix
Note: for users without web hosting service or existing environment, packages like
XAMMP or
WampServer
can help you get set up quicky.
Fresh Installation
Application Deployment to Server
- Unzip the archived distribution to your webserver's document root. Or
- If you don't have direct access to your document root or use hosting service,
then transfer the extracted directory to your web server's document root using FTP or WinSCP.
- Copy /config/config.dist.php to /config/config.php and adjust the settings for your environment.
- Important! The web server must have write access (0770) to
/your-phpScheduleIt/tpl_c and /your-phpScheduleIt/tpl
(want to know why?)
- If using an FTP client, check read/write/execute for Owner and Group on /tpl, /tpl_c, and /uploads
Application Configuration
You can configure phpScheduleIt to fit your environments and needs, or use the minimal default settings which should
be enough for the application to work. We recommend you to change according to your specifics. Additional
information on all configuration settings can be found in the application help page.
- To configure the application, you can open /config/config.php and alter any settings accordingly.
The admin email address can be set in the phpScheduleIt/config/config.php file of setting
$conf['settings']['admin.email'].
When later register an account with admin email address the user will be given admin privilege.
- In addition, to allow resource image uploads, the web-server must also have read/write
access to your configurable uploads directory of $conf['settings']['image.upload.directory']
in the config.php.
- By default, phpScheduleIt uses standard username/password for user authentication. Alternatively, you can
use LDAP authentication.
See the plugins section of the application help page for more details.
Note: If you try to load the application at this time (eg. http://yourhostname/phpScheduleIt/Web/), you will
probably get a white page. This is because there is no backend database configured yet. So continue on ...
Database Setup
You have 2 ways to set up your database for the application to work.
Automatically
You must have the application configured correctly before running the automated install.
- The automated database setup only supports MySQL at this time. To run the automated database setup, navigate
to the
/Web/install directory in a web browser and follow the on-screen instructions.
- Note: Some may see directory permission issues displayed on the page. The web server must have write access
to /your-phpScheduleIt/tpl_c and /your-phpScheduleIt/tpl.
If you cannot provide the required permission. Contact your web server administrator or hosting service to
resolve or run the manual install.
OR
Manually
The packaged database scripts make assumptions about your desired database configuration and set default values.
Please edit them to suit your environment before running. The files are located in
phpScheduleIt/database_schema/.
Import the following sql files in the listed order (we recommend
phpMyAdmin for this):
On a remote host with no database creation privileges
If you are installing phpScheduleIt on a remote host, please follow these steps. These steps assume you are using
cPanel and have the ability to create databases via the cPanel tool and phpMyAdmin.
Adding the database and user
- Select the MySQL Databases tool
- Add a new user with username and password of your choice. This will be the database user and database password set in
your phpScheduleIt config file. Please be aware that some hosts will prefix your database user name.
- Create a new database with whatever name you choose. This will be the name of the database in your
phpScheduleIt config file. 'phpScheduleIt2' is the recommended database name. Please be aware that some hosts will prefix your database name.
- Associate the new user with the new database, giving the user permission to SELECT, CREATE, UPDATE, INSERT
and DELETE. Click the 'Add User to Db' button.
Creating tables
- Open phpMyAdmin.
- Click on the database name that you just created in the left panel.
- Click the SQL tab at the top of the page.
- Import "/database_schema/create-schema.sql" to phpscheduleit2 (or whatever database name was used in the creation process)
- Import "/database_schema/create-data.sql" to phpscheduleit2 (or whatever database name was used in the creation process)
If you have database creation privileges in MySQL
- Open "/database_schema/full-install.sql" and edit the database name and username/password to match your
config.php database values
- Run or import "/database_schema/full-install.sql"
- Optionally - run/import "/database_schema/testdata-utf8.sql" to phpscheduleit2 (sample application data will
be created with 2 users: admin/password and user/password). These users are available for testing your
installation.
You are done. Congratulations!
Try to load the application at (eg. http://yourhostname/phpScheduleIt/Web/).
Upgrading
Upgrading from a previous version of phpScheduleIt 2
The steps for upgrading from a previous version of phpScheduleIt 2 are very similar to the steps described above in
Application Deployment to Server.
Recommended
The recommended approach is to backup your current phpScheduleIt files, then upload the new files to the
that same location. This prevents any old files from interfering with new ones.
After the new files are uploaded, copy your old config/config.php file to the config directory in the new
version. Then run /Web/install/configure.php to bring your config file up to date.
If you have any uploaded resource images you will need to copy them from their old location to the new
one.
Alternative
An alternative upgrade approach is to overwrite the current phpScheduleIt files with the new ones. If doing this,
you must delete the contents of /tpl_c. This approach will not allow you to roll back and will not clear out any
obsolete files.
Database
After the application files have been upgraded you will need to upgrade the database.
Automatically
The automatic database upgrade is exactly the same as the automatic database install. Please follow the
instructions in the Automatic Database Setup section above.
Manually
The packaged database scripts make assumptions about your desired database configuration and set default values.
Please edit them to suit your environment before running. The files are located in
phpScheduleIt/database_schema/upgrades.
Depending on your current version, import the upgrade.sql file within each subdirectory to get to the current
version (we recommend
phpMyAdmin for this).
For example, if you are running version 2.0 and the current version is 2.2 then you should run
phpScheduleIt/database_schema/upgrade/2.1/upgrade.sql then phpScheduleIt/database_schema/upgrade/2.2/upgrade.sql
Migrating from version 1.2
A migration from 1.2 to 2.0 is supported for MySQL only. This can be run after the 2.0 installation. To run the
migration open /Web/install/migrate.php directory in a web browser and follow the on-screen instructions.
Getting Started
The First Login
There are 2 main types of accounts, they are admin and user account.
- If you imported a sample application data, you now can use admin/password and user/password to login and make
changes or addition via the application.
- If not, you will need to register an account with your configured admin email address. The admin email address
can be set in the phpScheduleIt/config/config.php file of setting $conf['settings']['admin.email'].
Other self registration accounts are defaulted to normal users.
After registration you will be logged in automatically. Important! At this time,
it is recommended to change your password.
- For LDAP authentication please login with your LDAP username/password.
Log Files
phpScheduleIt logs multiple levels of information categorized into either application or database logs. To do this, the
log4php library is used. By default, logging is turned OFF.
- First, rename /config/log4php.config.dist.xml to /config/log4php.config.xml
- To allow application logging, the PHP account requires write access (0755) to your configured log directory.
- Logging is configured in /config/log4php.config.xml
- For Windows, set the path to something similar to <param name="file" value="c:/temp/log_%s.log"
/>
- For Unix, set the path to something similar to <param name="file" value="/tmp/phpscheduleit/log_%s.log"
/>
- Logging is controlled by changing the <level> of each <logger>
- Levels used by phpScheduleIt are OFF, DEBUG, ERROR. For normal operation, ERROR is appropriate. If trace logs
are needed, DEBUG is appropriate.
- To turn on application logging, change the <level value="OFF" /> to an appropriate level for
either the default or sql loggers.
For example, <level value="ERROR" />
- For more information on logging configuration, visit log4php
Support
Please post any questions or issues under the phpScheduleIt 2 section of the forums on
http://php.brickhost.com/forums. Here you may also find some answers
to your questions previously asked by other people.