Friday, September 4, 2009

Frustrations with PHPmotion

I installed PHPmotion this morning. Almost. It's been a frustrating experience.

Downloading the ZIP file was easy. Unzipping it was easy. Following the on-line directions is easy, but they are incomplete.

My first frustration is with PHPmotion's use of PHPshield. The install instructions for PHPmotion assume that PHPshield is installed and configured. Not necessarily true. A few minutes of reading up on PHPshield, a few more minutes of configuring php.ini, and I have solved the problem.

Now PHPmotion wants to talk to a database. I have a database, and it is ready, but PHPmotion won't talk to it. Won't provide much of an error message either. Bah!

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