Recent changes to Install instructions

Install instructions modified by Donald Dion

Donald Dion — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 04:27:15 -0000

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-Welcome to your wiki!
+The install script is initiated at first run, this script is located in '/install_files/install.php'. All fields must have values for the install to complete, this includes the 'optional' value which acts as a placeholder if not replaced by a valid analytics script.

-This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a new page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage].
+The 'footer message' will be added to the footer of each page, the default has a link back to Web Press Creative at webpresscreative.org and can contain any HTML wanted to be placed at the footer of each page within the area's limits.

-The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/webpresscreative/wiki/markdown_syntax/) syntax.
+Database credentials are needed at this point so the install script can create all needed tables and add data to them. The mySQL database must first be created through your hosting provider, it does not need to be an empty database the install will drop all tables that apply and with the prefix 'wpc_' only.

-[[members limit=20]]
-[[download_button]]
+There are several tools available with the install package, these can be found at '/install_files/tools/'. These include 'code.php' which encodes and decodes any text into hex values, this is important as the database is encoded in hex. The 'v_test.php' script tests some important core values and sends those values to the browser for troubleshooting 'config.php' if necessary. 'keypasswrd.php' is used if the administration user and password is lost and will create new ones. It is very important to delete this and all install files from the server after use or the website will be vulnerable to compromise and unauthorized access.
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+Be sure install deleted all folders and files in the install directory '/install_files/' and the directory itself as well after install completes.
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+NOTES:
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+iSpell located in 'optional browser plug-in' folder is included in this package and is optional to install. It provides a spell check function for the editors and has no other function or purpose.
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+Web Press Creative incompatibility issues:
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+Important items to note about Web Press Creative is some incompatible issues with older browsers and some hosting providers that may exist that cause the scripts to not function. It is mandatory that all scripts are uploaded and are executed from the root directory in '/', 'public_html' or 'htdocs' of the server. Web Press Creative will not work if it is placed any other place on the server. Hosting server must be Linux OS and Apache server with PHP and mySQL database.
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+Recommend using Filezilla FTP client to upload files to server, a free download from the following website address: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php
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+A free hosting provider that will not cause this to be an issue is 'http://byethost.com/' if you choose to use free hosting with a free sub-domain this is an excellent hosting provider to use.
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+Another issue involves Microsoft's IE 8 and older browsers which are no longer used as of Windows 7. In this case using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers will work. If your operating system is Windows XP Internet Explorer will not work with Web Press Creative and you must use one of the other mentioned browsers. Internet Explorer 10 has some other minor issues with the appearance of the Menu as it is a non-compliance browser there is a known issue with CSS borders in the settings section in some cases but does not effect the operation of the website.
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+Please report any bugs found to: webpress.softnet@gmail.com
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+GNU GPL v3 License:
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+THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
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+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Work (and each Contributor provides its Contributions) on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing the Work and assume any risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this License.
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+This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
+warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.
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+You MAY distribute it and charge for that service. Of course, you MAY accomplish changes, add design and content to it and you MAY charge for that. When distributing you must clearly state what you have changed in Web Press Creative.
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+Important: You MAY NOT alter the license and/or the copyright.
+Copyright hints are present inside the source code and also inside the generated output. Both may not be altered.
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+You must NOT pretend that Web Press Creative has been developed solely by you and market WPC in that way. If you intend on selling the WPC core, you MUST contact Web Press Creative developers and explain what you intend to do and why. WPC is available as a free download so charging for the application will need to have had custom changes specific to it for there to be reasonable to charge for it. And it is mandatory that WPC be notified for permission prior to distributing.
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+Web Press Creative uses libraries and other programs: iSpell - Copyright (c) 2002-2010 Red Egg Software All Rights Reserved. http://www.iespell.com, TinyMCE - Copyright (c) 2008 Moxiecode Systems AB. All rights reserved. http://www.tinymce.com
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+You also have to take care about the licenses of these third party components. For any questions on these third party components please ask the respective owner of the copyright directly.
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Discussion for Home page

Donald Dion — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:32:51 -0000

Web Press Creative (WPC) is a Content Management System (CMS) website with a new angle on the design. Although WPC is designed to be used primarily as a CMS website, there are some very unique ideas built into it. The development and design is centered at the core of the application in being “globally evolving”, meaning as the application becomes more complex and advanced and as additional functions and plug-in's are added to the core design the application itself will not need to be re-engineered or take on any changes to the scripts already in use.

As an example, most other designs in current use by other developers will build the applications around a structured database in which the tables and columns are in a state that puts limits on even minor changes and has a predetermined limit on functionality without making major changes to its database and all scripts using those affected database tables.

To make the changes that type of design would require the website to be completely shut down and re-written or patches to be applied, and once again limits would be inherent to its design with repeating those steps again and again.

That is a complete polar opposite to the foresight intensely developed into WPC. The design of WPC’s core is designed to be limited only by the limitations of the database in as the maximum data that can be stored in a single table row column and since the values WPC’s core uses to function are very small per column row making WPC almost limitless in the growth and complexity of its application core.

Also the core is written and arranged is such a way that adding any new secondary applications and functions act in the same manner as current “plug and play” devices do on present computer systems operating systems.

Additional software added to WPC is installed in the same type of action as Microsoft Windows installers and also have auto uninstall functionality deleting all files, folders and core values back to the state before the installation was made.

The core itself is developed in the same engineering order as any computer system, software and OS in which starting with a machine orated user unfriendly code system is first order, a primary programing language, CLI and void of any complex graphical user interface (GUI). As in layers of application complexity the languages become increasingly more powerful and easier to recall and use for the human user communicating with the machine.

Automated complex coding grouped into independent directives take the place of hundreds of lines of the code evolutionary lower than the one relative to the one the user currently operates.

Steps in this machine evolutionary language chain are completely necessary for the directives used in GUI's to work properly within every possible program environment without error.

WPC of course is limited by the operation of its environment, being server sided creating certain conditions which some elements of communication from user to machine, functionality and speed are greatly reduced in comparison to running an application and OS with the machine at the users location.

Security restrictions also play a major role in these limitations. WPC is engineered with evolutionary languages similar as described in the previous paragraphs of this document.

Using CLI type functionality and independently core wide sub-scripting makes adding applications by developers independent from core engineering developers simple to develop.

Built in design of plug-in type of applications remain consistent with the over all functionality, appearance and layout without any modifications and chances of application error become less likely.

The manner in which the WPC core functions makes it very flexible, adding variables and new values to its core are added to the database in a previously existing table column row string and in no way effects original values and can also be easily removed or changed without any changes to previous existing database structures instantly without interruption.

Data is stored in a single mySQL column row which maximizes page load speeds along with sever sided gzip compression makes WPC very fast with data transfers over the internet.

Coding also is written in its simplest form to optimize process speed and limit the chance of error.

Another insight into design is WPC’s functionality for the user to develop scripts on the fly and on the server without uploading. Security option features allow for scripts to be ran with a low level of possibility of a breach by unauthorized intruders.

Single allowable administrative users insure some level of anti-interception. But without an SSL user/password transmission over the internet is in plain text.

Scripts are executed from the server path independent from the domain or relative root/path. Themes and templates are embedded into page scripts by the “include” directive and not echo to the browser.

It has been a priority to place as much page data and values data in the database as allowed including HTML and CSS in as for reliable functionality will allow.

All these combined invites the administrative user to be creative within sessions. Uploading, deletion and control over these within an advanced menu system, access to all core database column rows and values with just a mouse click. Independent add-on specialized advanced user friendly GUI menus and custom options.

WPC is much more than an ordinary CMS website, the possibilities are virtually limitless.

Right now WPC is still in alpha form and its core a little more than 80% complete, look for the WPC new release coming very soon, open source and free.

No limitations, full version always free to the public.

Thank you,

Donald Dion
WPC Developer
CEO Softnet Technologies - Tulsa, OK
email: webpress.softnet@gmail.com

Discussion for Home page

Donald Dion — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:30:04 -0000