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Miscellaneous Diagnostic Tools

Additional tools are located in the help directory of your vCard Lite2.0 software zip file.

They include the following:
  • phptest.php - a PHP script to test that PHP is set up and working on your server
  • mailtest.php - a PHP script to test that the mail() function is working on your server
  • index.html - a HTML file that you can use to redirect to index.php if your server does not user index.php automatically
  • Before You Begin You Will Need

    An FTP Client such as WS_FTP, Leap or CuteFTP

    There are many shareware software avaiable to download from Tucows.com

    System Requirements

    In order to setup vCard Lite the folowing prerequisits are necessary.

    - PHP 3>= 3.0.18 (with safe mode = off) OR PHP 4 >= 4.0.3.

    http://www.php.net

    - MySQL database server >= 3.23
    http://www.mysql.com

    http://www.php.net/manual/phpfi2.html#safemode

    Installation
    1. Unzip the files from the ZIP archive, ensuring that you maintain the directory structure.

    2. Find the config.inc.php file in the /upload/admin directory. Open this up in a text editor (such as notepad) and you should see something like this:

      These selected settings are the basic settings that will be edited to active vCard Lite in your server


      <?php ....

      $hostname ="localhost"; // database host
      $dbUser ="root"; // database username
      $dbPass =""; // database password
      $dbName ="test"; // database name

      $PostUserTable ="card_user"; // card user table name
      $PostMusicTable ="card_sound"; // card sound table name
      $PostStampTable ="card_stamp"; // card stamp table name
      $PostPatternTable ="card_pattern"; // card pattern/background image table name
      $PostStatsTable = "card_stat"; // card stats table name
      $PostImageTable = "card_img"; // card images table name
      $PostImageCatTable = "card_imgcat"; // card categorie table name

      ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
      // Control Panel Access:
      ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
      $login_admin = "admin"; // admin center login
      $password_admin = "admin1"; // admin center password


      ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
      // Language Variables:
      ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
      $PostLanguageFile ="eng.lang.inc"; // determines what language set to use

      $SpecialLanguage ="N"; // You will use a special translated language?
      // Some languages will make a error in creation page
      // because the MySQL will order pattern and music names!
      // maybe your language don't be understanded by MySQL.
      // Se more info in README.html >>> TRANSLATION TO OTHER LANGUAGES

      ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
      // Site Variables:
      ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
      $ProgFullURL ="http://localhost/vCardLite261b/www";
      // Full URL where scripts is placed "WITHOUT trailing slash*
      // ex.: http://www.domain.com/ecard

      $PostSoundURL ="http://localhost/vCardLite261b/www/music";
      // Full URL to your music dir *WITHOUT trailing slash*
      // ex.: http://www.domain.com/ecard/music

      $PostImageURL ="http://localhost/vCardLite261b/www/images";
      // Full URL to your image dir *WITHOUT trailing slash*
      // ex.: http://www.domain.com/ecard/images

      // ATTENTION!!!ATTENTION!!!ATTENTION!!!ATTENTION!!!
      // Upload image feature MAY not work on your system because safe mode.

      $PostImagePath ="D:\\LOCALHOST\\vCardLite261b\\www\\images";
      // Full PATH to your image dir *WITHOUT trailing slash*
      // UNIX ex.: /home/username/www/ecard/images
      // NT/WIN ex.: c:\\host\\apache\\htdocs\\www\\ecard\\images

      $UploadedDir ="uploaded";
      // ATTENTION!!!ATTENTION!!!ATTENTION!!!ATTENTION!!!
      // The Directory where uploaded file is stored.
      // The name of subdirectory that MUST be inside
      // PostImageURL *WITHOUY trailing slash*
      // ex.: http://www.domain.com/ecard/images/uploaded

      $AdminAddress ="your@emailaddress.com"; // webmaster/postmaster e-mail address
      $SiteName ="Your vCard Lite Site Name"; // Card Service Name
      $SiteURL ="http://localhost/vCardLite261b/www/"; // Full URL to Card Service Main Page
      // ex.: http://www.domain.com/ecard/

      .... ?>

    3. You may need to make modifications to this file. To make changes to any of the default settings, enter the correct setting between the two sets of "quotes". If the database is stored on a separate server, you will want to change the server name setting. Enter the hostname or IP address of the server that you would like to use. Enter the username and password that you would like to use to log in to the database. It is recommended that you start off with a completely empty database, as clashes between table names will cause problems during the installation process.
      Note: If you only have 1 database to use, you cand edit the table names to feat your needs. That's the razion of "card_" start name. It's to easy locate vCard Lite tables in your database if you want use phpMyAdmin (a MySQL database administrator).
    4. You are now ready to upload all the files onto you web server. The files that need to be uploaded are in the 'upload' directory of the ZIP archive. Upload the files to the directory where you'd like your forum to be available from. Upload all files in the "images", "music" and "img" directory (and its subdirectories) as BINARY and all the others as ASCII. Again, make sure that you maintain the directory structure.

    5. Set permission of directory: images (Chmod 777). Without these permission the user cannot upload any file to web server.

    6. Now run the /install.php script. For example, if you uploaded them onto your server at http://www.yourdomain.com/ecard then you would want to run http://www.yourdomain.com/ecard/install.php.

    7. The table creation script will now run.

    It's Finish
    Congratulations! Your vCard Lite installation is complete!
    Once you have finished with installation, delete create_database.php file; leaving it is a security risk!

    How active advance sent
    If you active advanced option in configuration. You must exec the file advancedate.php! You can use CRON job in UNIX system or use a URL monitoring service like:

    URL Monitoring Service:

  • http://www.netwhistle.com/
  • http://www.netmon.com/
  • http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/
  • Website Monitoring

    to visit the script file URL.

    http://www.domain.com/vCardLite/advancedate.php

    - Set to visit the file 2 times for day.
    or you can use FAKE CRON:
    It's a small CGI script that simulate CRON feature. Get your copy at

    http://www.SmartCGIs.com

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