RBS 1.6 RC3 (Reverse Bidding System) Readme
Note : This RC3 may contain some bugs and they will be addressed in next versions.
1. Server Requirements
2. Installation
3. Email Templates
4. Multi-Language Setup
5. Template Customization
6. Troubleshooting
7. Files for Cron jobs
8. Version History
9. License Agreement
1. Server Requirements
2. Installation
1. Upload all files in the archieve to the root directory or subdirectory (i.e yoursite.com/site).
Manual Installation 1.Edit the file app/config/config.php and edit your mysql details in the following lines: $config['hostname'] = "hostname"; 2.$config['base_url'] = "Site URL "; (i.e yoursite.com/site) 3. In PhpMyAdmin, import the file install/cogzidel.sql to create the database structure.
/files/logos /files/portfolios 5.You are done
6. To access the admin panel /siteadmin (i.e yoursite.com/site/index.php/siteadmin), login with user: admin pass: admin on the main member login page |
3. Email Templates
Steps to access email templates used in the system 1.Go to /siteadmin (i.e yoursite.com/site/index.php/siteadmin) 2. Login with user: admin pass: admin 3.You will see "Email templates" link on the right side of the page. Click on that 4.You can see list of email templates used, and there is edit icon to view and edit the contents 5. In the content area , you can see some variables started with "!" symbol, that means those varibles will be replaced in the user end while sending mails
7.You can add new email templates here |
4. Multi-Language Setup
4.1 Edit current language files
The default language we have used is "english" in app/config/config.php $config['language'] = "english";
As of now, there is only one folder app/language/english, it has 2 folders "enduser" and "admin" , there you can find _lang.php files. Each one is corresponding to /controllers
4.2 Create new language files
1. Go to the folder /app/language and create a new folder using the name
of your language code (eg:spanish) 5.Then go to admin panel -> Site settings tab -> update the "Language Code" to the name of your language folder (eg:spanish) |
5. Template Customization
Editing RBS design is very simple by modifying the php and CSS files. The location of the template files for the design can be found in folder:
/app/views/
/app/views/(header.php|footer.php) -The location of the header/footer files.
/app/css/css(front end CSS)
/app/css/ (admin area CSS)
6. Troubleshooting
1. Help, I am getting HTTP error 400 when accessing my site! You will need to enable mod_rewrite option on your apache server |
7. Files for Cron jobs
1. project/bidConsolidate()
2. project/newProjectsNotify()
3. project/biddingEndCheck()
You can run the files directly as (i.e yoursite.com/site/project/bidConsolidate)
8. Version History
RBS version 1.6 RC3 (Beta release)
9. License Agreement
Reverse Bidding System Copyright (C) <2010> <Cogzidel Technologies> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or(at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> If you want more information, please email me at bala.k@cogzidel.com or contact us from http://www.cogzidel.com/contact