Software needed by LinkBase
To run LinkBase, you need at least the following components :
- PHP scripting engine
LinkBase is a set of scripts written in PHP. It requires the version
4 to work.
- Web server
In theory, LinkBase should work with any web server that supports
PHP4, but it has yet only been tested with Apache.
- SQL Backend
LinkBase uses a database to store its information. We use ADODB,
so theoretically, all databases supported by ADODB should work.
However, it is currently only tested with MySQL. (Please report
success / failure with other databases.)
The following compenents are optional. That means that LinkBase will
run even if you don't installed them, although you might
install them to benefit from every feature of LinkBase.
- Curl
LinkBase may automatically check for the availability of a
web-address and automatically detect broken links, provided that
Curl is installed.
- Mail backend
LinkBase may automatically send an e-mail to the site administrator
if something gets bad, or notify moderators of a new link
submission, provided that PHP is configured correctly to send
emails.
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