RE: [phplib] Begginer's stuff From: Philippe Paravicini (quietsky <email protected>)
Date: 06/20/01

yoh dude!

The best strategery, as our prez would say, is to install the demo and make
it work.

You then may want to read the docs to figure out which of the classes may be
useful to you. You need not use all of them. The stuff that is most widely
used, I would say, is the db abstraction class, and the session and
authentication stuff.

Some of these are dependent upon each other, but most other classes stand on
their own (oohforms, table, template, etc...).

You may also want to read through some of the code, a good way to learn php.

phplib should not interfere with existing php libraries. phplib is all php,
so there is no module to install on the server, other than whatever runs
php.

>I'm a kinda professional software developer

That's good, 'cause phplib ain't point-and-click wimpy consumer software
stuff. It's a set of building blocks to build web apps so that you don't
have to reinvent the wheel.

Regarding installation, most people stumble on the php installation itself,
rather than the phplib stuff. The best way is to try it.

Notable bug: in the configuration file, you will want to edit the setting
that specifies whether to cache pages, and set it to 'NO'. IE5 has a bug
that will cause the demo not to refresh the session variables (it's a
cookie/cache issue). This is the single most asked and answered question of
all times in this mailing list. You should be able to search the list
archives and find more on this.

Good luck broh!

Philippe Paravicini
eCommerce Developer

-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Vicente Teses [mailto:jvicente0 <email protected>]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:52 AM
To: phplib <email protected>
Subject: [phplib] Begginer's stuff

Hi ya people, wassup?

I'm just a begginer into this stuff, I'm a kinda professional software
developer and I love how php works. it feels tastee for me.

Also I've heard a lot of good stuff about phplib, but I feel a little bit
frightened about it.

It is not just a "plug-in" to un-zip into your server. You must edit the
main configuration files itselves and I don't own my own server.

The guy who owns it wanna to use phplib, but i've to help him in the
process...

I'll read longer the documentation but i'd love some bits about how install
and config phpLib into a server with several sites and several DB.

And does phpLib had ever caused any trouble with previously installed
libraries?

Thank you in advance
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