/* $Id: INSTALL,v 1.4 2000/02/12 01:27:39 lim Exp $ */

phpAds - Installation

  Quick Install:
    [1] Untar the distribution (be sure to untar the subdirectories)
        tar xvf phpAdServer_x.x.x.tar
    [2] Open the file config.inc.php3 in your favourite editor and change
        the values to fit your environment.
    [3] Create the database you'll use for phpAdServer (default name:
        "phpadserver"). Within this database, create the required tables as
        provided in all.sql. You can use the mysql-client for this:
        mysql <db-name> < all.sql
        or you can use phpMyAdmin <http://phpwizard.net/phpMyAdmin> to read
        in the dump.
    [4] Point your browser to 
        <www.your-host.com>/<your-install-dir>/admin/index.php3
        and create a new client. Add a banner for that client.
    [5] To send automatically a weekly email to your clients with statistics,
        add a job to your crontab to parse the file mail.php3:
        59 23 * * * fetch -o - http://www.profi.it/phpAds/mail.php3>>/var/log/messages
        The example uses fetch, you can also use wget or lynx -dump.

  Installation notes:
  + PHP must be configured to have magic_quotes_gpc=on and 
    magic_quotes_runtime=off. In the module version of PHP3 this can also be set
    on a per-directory base with php3_magic_quotes_gpc on in an .htaccess file 
    or in your Apache's access.conf.
  + If you've the module version of PHP3, your .htaccess could look like this:
    php3_magic_quotes_runtime off
    php3_magic_quotes_gpc on
  + Keep in mind that in the current version you have to include the files 
    "config.inc.php3", "view.inc.php2" and "acl.inc.php3" on every page you
    want to have a banner.