LTPDA Repository README and Installation Guide

1.0 Software requirements

Software tested versions should work on
Apache 2.2.6 >2.0
MySQL 5.0 >4.0
PHP 5.2.4 >4.0
Sendmail ? ?
You can use postfix or qmail instead, they provide a sendmail wrapper. For more information see http://de2.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php.

1.1 Browsers

Software tested versions should work on
Firefox 2.0.0.8 >1.0
Konqueror 3.5.8 >2.0
Opera 9.5 >8.0

Useful information

Viewing the data

When you want to have a look at the XML data in the "objs" table, you should be aware of some facts: By default, the output is cut off at 500 characters, every single line is cut off at 100 characters. This is necessary, since the XML data is very large and the tables will be unusable. If you want to view the XML data of a certain entry, just use the default settings, download the file of your choice and use your favorite XML viewer software.

Internal names

Tables and columns for the data sets must not contain any other characters than alphanumeric, underscore (_) or a dash (-)

Custom querys

When executing a custom query, the script reconnects to the database with the login data of the user. This prevents, that the user can access or even modify more data than he is allowed to. As the passwords are saved md5 encrypted, the user has to supply his password, everytime he wants to execute a query.