PROPS is an open, extensible Internet publishing system designed specifically for periodicals such as newspapers and magazines who want to publish online, either exclusively or as an extension of their print publication. PROPS is written entirely in PHP using a MySQL database backend, and is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

In this tutorial, we will use the latest version of PROPS which is 0.8. Before the installation, please make sure your host has fully supported for the below requirements:

• Apache webserver
• MySQL 4.1 or greater (5.x is recommended)
• PHP 4.3.0 or greater (5.x is recommended)
• ImageMagick or PHP with GD support (required for photos)

Firstly, download the package from Sourceforge.net you will get the file named props-0.8.final.tar.gz. Extract the downloaded file and you’ll get the following files and directories:

cache/
INSTALL.TXT
locale/
README.TXT
TODO.TXT
CHANGELOG.TXT
lib/
modules/
sql/
UPGRADING.TXT
includes/
LICENSE.TXT
public_html/
templates/

Next, create a new database on your hosting account. Then, head to PHPMyAdmin and import props-mysql.sql which is located in sql/ directory.

Upload all files and directories in public_html/ to root of your site where you want PROPS to be installed. Then, rename config.default.php to config.php and open it in your favorite text editor.

Edit the following sections to fit your need:

• props_setkey(‘config.publication.name’, ‘Your Site Name‘);
• props_setkey(‘config.default.copyright’, ‘Copyright Notice‘);
• props_setkey(‘config.db.name’, ‘database_name‘);
• props_setkey(‘config.db.user’, ‘database_username‘);
• props_setkey(‘config.db.password’, ‘database_password‘);

Save and upload back to the server.

Okay, now upload the rest of directories to one level before your root directory:

cache/
modules/
includes/
lib/
locale/
templates/

For example, if your root directory is /home/username/domains/sitename.com/public_html/ then upload the above directories to /home/username/domains/sitename.com/

Point your browser to http://domain.tld/ (replace domain.tld with your domain name) you will see the follow error:

Internal Server Error

While responding to your request an error encountered in the application. The administrator has been notified.

Sorry for the inconvenience, we correct the error as soon as possible.

This site has nothing published yet. Please come back in a short time.

« Go back »

This is because you haven’t added any article yet. So just point your browser to http://domain.tld/admin/ and login with username admin using password password

When you access to the admin panel for the first name, you will be noticed about using default admin details. Just ignore it and scroll down and click on Update user privs

You also have to change your password for admin account as well. To do this, click on admin on the left sidebar. Edit the information as needed.

Publishing content

To begin with publishing your contents, Click on the Content management tab, click Manage editions and start with adding an edition following by story. Don’t forget to click publish it after saving or it will not show on the home page.

See it in action http://props.how2cms.com/

The bottom line

What I really forgot in the article is, having step-by-step screenshots as usually. Really sorry for that Anyway, I hope you found this article useful. If you have any issue with installation, please add comment below.

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VidiScript is a free PHP script that clones features of YouTube. Which means you can setup your own Video sharing site!

VidiScript – It’s 100% Free

Packed with features you can only find on major media sharing communities such as YouTube and LiveVideo, VidiScript is the most powerful FREE media sharing community script available online today.

You can see it in action via Demo 1, and Demo 2.

Since VidiScript is YouTube clone script. You will need to have a bit advanced system requirements as described below.

• Linux Web Server running Apache
• MySQL 4.x or higher
• PHP 4.3 or higher
• GD Library 2
• cURL
• IonCube loaders
• .htaccess and URL rewrites enabled
• FFmpeg
• FFmpeg-PHP
• MEncoder and Mplayer
• LAME

And some PHP configurations.

• safe_mode = off
• max_execution_time = 1000
• max_input_time = 1000
• open_basedir = (no value)
• upload_max_filesize = 200M
• post_max_size = 200M
• register_argc_argv = On

Seems a lot of works huh?

Anyway, let assume that you have all system requirements above. Now we will proceed with VidiScript installation…

1. Download VidiScript from their download page. (It’s v0.42 at the time I’m witting this).
2. Upload the folder “Full Install” to your webserver.
3. Point your web browser to http://domain.tld/install/
4. chmod 777 following files and folder
   data
   data/keys
   data/scroller/scroller.xml
   uploads
   uploads/thumbs
   uploads/avatars
   uploads/ads
   uploads/groupicons
   includes/settings.inc
   includes/badwords.inc
5. The installation screen should be shown up similar the below. Don’t be worried if your ffmpeg and MEncoder are different, you can change it later.
   

   VidiScript Installation | Step 1

6. Step 2 you need to fill in your database name, username, password and host name –usually ‘localhost’ (without quote, for sure )
   

   VidiScript Installation | Step 2

7. This step is pretty easy, just put in your site name, site folder, admin username and password along with email address. Hit Next (last) step.
   

   VidiScript Installation | Step 3

8. If everything is okay, you will see the screen below..
   

   VidiScript Installation | Step 4

And here is your fresh VidiScript installation..

VidiScript | Fresh Install

Conclusion

The difficult part of installing VidiScript is ffmpeg. You need to have ffmpeg installed on your webserver. If you have shared host you might have difficult time since most shared hosting has provide no support for this feature. At least, VPS or Dedicated hosting is the most suggested in this case.

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This is my first article on How2CMS.com. Please note that English is not my native language, so you might have some strange feeling reading my blog. However, I’ll try to improve it — I hope so

Elgg is an opensource social networking platform that allow you to build up your Social Networking site easily and free!

About

Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea.

Elgg is open source. That means, when you use Elgg, you have the benefit of being part of a large developer community, with the security and stability that hundreds of eyes can provide. It’s also headed and used by Curverider and its partners, so you can be assured that it’s in commercial use and will cope with the demands of a popular application. read more…

Okay, now let’s proceed with installing Elgg 1.2 (latest version at the time I’m writting this) on your web server.

Firstly, you will have to download Elgg 1.2 from this URL http://elgg.org/getelgg.php?forward=elgg1.2.zip. It’s full package.

Oh.. I forgot to tell you something. In this article, I’ll install Elgg on a subdomain of How2CMS.com Let’s say it’s elgg.how2cms.com

After you have downloaded Elgg 1.2 full package. Next, you will have to extract the package and upload them to your server via the FTP client.

Below are the list of files and folders of Egg.

account
actions
admin
CONTRIBUTORS.txt
crontab.example
_css
dashboard
engine
entities
friends
_graphics
htaccess_dist
index.php
install.php
INSTALL.txt
javascript
languages
LICENCE.txt
mod
README.txt
search
services
settings
upgrade.php
UPGRADE.txt
vendors
version.php
views

You will also have to create an external data directory for Elgg to store the uploaded files in the future and it need to be out side of Elgg installation path. In my case, I will install Elgg to /home/how2cms/domains/how2cms.com/public_html/elgg/ so the external data directory will be /home/how2cms/domains/how2cms.com/elgg_data/ for example. Don’t forget to CHMOD 777 it, too.

Another CHMOD step is, chmod 777 to engine/ and root directory of Elgg installation. Otherwise, you will have to manually create setting.php and .htaccess as advised in the installation.

We will now proceed to install Elgg. Just point your favorite web browser to http://domain.tld/ You will see the following screen.

Elgg Installation

Fill it with your database details such as username, database name and pasword then hit Save.

If everything is okay, you will see the following screen.

Elgg Instllation | System settings

For the full path to the directory where uploaded files will be stored, this should be the path outside Elgg installation path as suggested early. Don’t forget the trailing slash.

Check the rest if needed and hit Save.

Let’s proceed with the last step.

Elgg Insallation | Register

Just fill in details in the boxes to create your first account on Elgg.

Elgg Installation | Done!

That’s all.

Hmm… probably not you still have a lot of works to do from now on.

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