A muppets experience of working with Monkey CMS

Ok, I'm here, and I thought I would generally post my experiences of working with Monkey CMS from a complete muppets point of view.

Please bear in mind that you guys are all streets ahead of me in terms of skill and experience. I'm proud to be able to Beta test this, but the minute I become a pain then do not hesitate to shout.

My first experience is with the install itself. Now, I'm not sure if it is only the Beta version where you have to manually edit the database details php file within the admincp folder or whether you will have to do this with the final version. One thing I will say, however, is that unless I am being very stupid, I cannot find the actual file you need to edit in the downloaded package anywhere

I'm sure it's me being stoopid again!

[Colin]

Nah - that might be my mistake.

Try running the install without that file and let me know if it works - there is code in there to cater for instances when that file isn't in place. If not, I'll attach a copy of the missing file for you.

I did try and run the install without but it didn't work. It didn't seem to want to connect to the mysql database. It came up with an install screen with a load of meaningless (to me) strings in each box but when I entered the value of the database and click test path it just reset to the strings again.

[Colin]

Can you post a screenshot for me, as that doesn't sound right at all. What did you click when it reset?

No problem. By the way, I got a blank email from you earlier, Colin!

Anyway, if I go straight to my localhost/monkey address I get this:

Warning: include(admincp/dbdetails.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\monkeycms\global.php on line 45

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'admincp/dbdetails.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\pear\') in C:\xampp\htdocs\monkeycms\global.php on line 45

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'ODBC'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in C:\xampp\htdocs\monkeycms\global.php on line 119
There was a problem connecting to your database server. Please check the information in the admincp/dbdetails.php file is correct


which is to be expected, I guess, as I although I have set up a database, monkey doesn't know the details.

So, going to the install gives me this:

Hey that completely bizarre! Going to the install sets up the site for me perfectly! I really don't think I did anything different - but hey Colin - at least you know even a muppet can install it now!

[planetShhhh]

I'm having a similar problem.


my dbdetails.php file has root no password.
My db is setup with root no password.

The error is saying "odbc@localhost" instead of "root".

How can I solve this?

[Colin]

Originally Posted by planetShhhh

I'm having a similar problem.


my dbdetails.php file has root no password.
My db is setup with root no password.

The error is saying "odbc@localhost" instead of "root".

How can I solve this?

What platform/OS are you on?

[planetShhhh]

XP

Windows7 is a pain with XAMPP

[TheoGB]

Hi Colin,

I was trying this out too. In XAMPP 1.7.3 for some reason the include of the ../admincp/dbdetails.php file fails to actually populate the DB fields. I went back to my older 1.7.0 edition of XAMPP (the one that isn't weighed down by ridiculous 'install/uninstall' procedure) and the install worked perfectly with a copy of the same idea.

I guess maybe register globals or something similar isn't turned on in PHP.INI. Any idea off hand what the setting might be that's controlling this?

[chrisjlocke]

Its not pulling in the dbdetails file as it doesn't know where the admin folder is. That should be set when it pulls in adminfolder.inc, but that variable isn't getting set. Unsure why not. Might be something to do with the paths? Does it need to know that it has the search the local path first? My Linux knowledge is flaky, but I remember scripts always had to be ./filename.ext as you couldn't just put filename.ext. Maybe thats whats changed between 1.7.3 and 1.7.0.

A workaround is to set the variable in global.php. Open this file, and near the top, find include("adminfolder.inc");. Just under that, add this line: $adminfolder="admincp";
All should be well again.

On a side note, I've just installed 1.7.3 in Windows 7 with no problems. I presume you've read the 'readme' about not installing it in 'Program Files'?