Installing scripts
 

This is a rough tutorial for installing php scripts on your server.

Some things are assumed like you have cpanel hosting account. And the scripts I am talking about will be in general.

Download the script.
Unzip it in one folder.
Now there are some scripts with a folder already zipped in. So zip all that files back into a new zip file without putting them into a folder.

Open your cpanel and open file manager in it.

Upload this new zip file in the folder where you want this files to be [Mostly public_html]

When it is uploaded select it and Click the Extract file contents.

When it is extracted delete the zip file.

Now Open MySQL databases section in cpanel.
Create New database.
Create New User with Password.
Add that user to that database.

Open phpMyAdmin and import the .sql file if there is any.

Look for files like config.php or settings.php or folders like include in which this files might reside.

Put your database name, database username, database password and database server [i.e. localhost in most of the cases] save the file.

Done.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.

Nice guide, but I just read the readme file. :hehe: :tu:

Dan:)

thanks you for this... just what someone i know needed!!

Hello,

Nice tutorial for new people that has cPanel Hosting.

but, I've been doing this since 2004 (As long as I been in business.)

Thanks,
Cory

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.

thank for this nice guide :)

Kudos to Nick ...
 

This type of detailed step by step explanation is extremely helpful for those who are brand new to using scripts on a website. This is old hat to many and perhaps they will think - what a dummified tutorial about such a simple thing this is. People so often forget what it's like to be so brand new to something it's hard to comprehend without even the basics explained step by step.

A few years ago I was trying to help out a highly educated but older relative who had bought her first computer and called on the phone with some problem. Almost immediately she got confused and couldn't follow my (what I thought were) simple instructions. I was floored that my extremely intelligent relative couldn't understand and follow my simple directions. But what my directions weren't taking into account was that she was so brand new to it all that she was lost when I said right click and go to properties or when I said copy and past xzy to abc - things that were so second nature to me it just didn't occur to me she may not understand how to do them. When I finally understood she couldn't follow my directions because I hadn't started out with totally basic step by step instructions I started over and we solved her immediate problems. That older relative is quite computer savvy today.

Anyway, a big thank you to Nick for understanding the concept of teaching something brand new when it's a "foreign language" to you. Kudos Nick. :-)

Well for me anything simple is not that simple. Because there are always people out there who think it is simple and there are always other group of people who think it is not simple.

Now all those who think it is simple. They know it already. So there is no point in posting the stuff.

My main concern is about new people. They are the ones that need maximum help. And I know how it feels being a newbie. So that's the reason I will be posting even the smallest tips that comes to my mind.