August 26, 2001 -- Ken Williams Please report success or problems at http://phpfastnews.sourceforge.net as soon as possible. Comments, suggestions, etc... are encouraged and welcome in the phpfastnews forums. STUFF ------------- This is a test of the news,forum,article,product review module for phpshopcore. Things to note: This code is not intended for use on a public site...the directory setup is optimized for coding, not security (yet). This code is for bug testing and to make sure everything is in shape before I upload code to Sourceforge CVS. There will be a LOT of coding changes over the next few weeks. If you find bugs, please replicate them at the http://www.phpfastnews.com site (if possible). That will make it much easier to find the problem(s). REQUIREMENTS ------------- You need to have the latest release of phpshopCORE installed and working correctly (www.phpshop.org) PHP 4.0.4pl / MYSQL / APACHE (other setups will be supported in the future) INSTALLING THE FILES ----------------------- 1) unzip this archive into /htdocs (replace name with your root web directory name). You should now see .php files in /htdocs/phpfastnews/ 2) Copy lib/prepend.inc-dist to lib/prepend.inc ... change $PS_BASE to point to the /somedir/phpshop-core/ directory (the phpshopcore directory where /bin /modules etc.. are located) 3) Copy lib/prepend_news.inc-dist to lib/prepend_news.inc ... change $NEWS_BASE to point to the /htdocs/phpfastnews/ directory NOTE: /phpfastnews should be parallel to /Core (for now anyway) like this: /var/www/html/Core /var/www/html/phpfastnews INSTALLING THE SQL ----------------------------------- In /phpfastnews/lib/sql --> 'mysql -uyourusername -p thephpshopcoredatabasename < mysql_phpfastnews.sql' You should now be able to open up page http://localhost/phpfastnews/news_index.php. Log in using your phpshopcore Admin user and password. ETC ------ Thanks for reading this README. I hope this module will help people create custom sites more quickly and easily. -- HDwebdev (Ken Williams)