[Webtutorials-team] First Briefing

[Pieter D. <pie...@ho...>]

Dear webtutorials-team,

It's been a few days now since I started this project, searching for 
developers wanting to help with the creation of an open source tutorials 
page. At the moment there are 6 members who want to give it a shot.

First of all I want to ask you if you are still in the project. If not, plz 
give me sign, so I can remove you from the member list.

For those who are still wanting to help:
If you haven't downloaded the current package yet. Plz try this first to get 
a glance of what the project will be and what's the structure of the php 
pages. In the package there is a database directory with two files: ddl.sql 
(data definition) and dml.sql (data manipulation). You first need to create 
a new mysql database called 'webtutorials' and execute those 2 scripts to 
create the tables and a few data. If that's done, you can try to view the 
webpage by putting the php files in the right web directory (e.g. 
.../Apache/htdocs/webtutorials/) and accessing the right URL (e.g. 
http://localhost/webtutorials/index.php). If you get a database error, there 
can be a few reasons:
- you haven't installed PEAR (http://pear.php.net) and the file 'DB.php' 
can't be found
- the dns 'mysql://localhost/webtutorials' located in the constants file 
'includes/constants.php' is not right. maybe you need to add a username and 
password this way: 'mysql://username:password@localhost/webtutorials'
- your database is not available or corrupt.
If there are no problems, you should now be able to signup, login, 
add/remove tutorials, add/remove chapters, ... There are alot of links that 
haven't been implemented yet though. Thats why I need you for the project ;)

Now if you are ready to participate in the project, plz visit the project 
page at sourceforge and get a look at the tasks I added there. If you find 
something interesting plz mail me and I'll assign the task to you. You can 
also think about other features and share them with the team... I hope to 
work with you soon!

Greetz,

RaKKeR

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