starting out

[Helen Castle]

Hi there - I am very much a newbie and have used PHPGedView which was great
but i cant get to work again.

So decided to try this program

I have a Windows Home Server (WHS) which previous ran my PHP site with no
problems

I added 2 Addins to WHS

MySQL installer & PHP installer

have I missed something there?

Then I downloaded the zip file

created a folder on my website and added the files

I then need to edit the inc/database.inc and save as inc/database.inc.php?

but no entirely sure what i have to edit it to

can anyone help me please?

I am flying by the seat of my pants here so any assistance is appreciated

Is this right below?

$dbhost = "localhost"; // http://helenlcastle.homeserver.com/phpfamily/

$dbname = ""; // myfam

$dbuser = ""; // helen

$dbpwd = ""; // 12345

[Ian Wright]

Hi,

You need all the lines from database.inc - you can leave tblprefix and
usepconnect as they are but they need to be there.

dbhost is the name of the database server not the URL of the web server -
localhost will usually be right

You need to put the values between the " " so you'd want:

$dbhost     = "localhost";  // [url]http://helenlcastle.homeserver.com/phpfamily/[/url]
$dbname     = "myfam";      // myfam
$dbuser     = "helen";      // helen
$dbpwd      = "12345";      // 12345
$tblprefix="family_";
$usepconnect = false;

You'll need to run admin/install.php - see the INSTALL file in the root
directory

If you're using MySQL 5.5 you'll need to make the change that's listed in the
forum otherwise that should be it

Afterwards you should go to admin.php which lets you set various options - for
most the default will be OK but you should change absurl, email and you
probably want to change desc

If you've been using PHPGedView then you've probably got a gedcom file which
you can upload from here as well.

Please feel free to update the wiki http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/php
myfamily/index.php?title=Main_Page to help other people out!