System Requirements

In order to use PHP Classifieds, you will need to have the following features on your server:

• PHP version 4.3 or later (Works on PHP5 with MySQL5 also)
• MySql 4.x or later
• PHP with php setting Register Globals turned Off.
• PHP with php setting Magic Quotes On.
• PHP with php setting Safe Mode Off.

The program works under the following platforms:

• Linux (Apache)
• Windows (IIS5/Apache)
• BSD/Unix variants with Apache.

Note that if your web host does not have register_globals turned off for all sites, it is possible to run with register_globals off for all programs in a specific directory by creating a file named .htaccess (with a dot in front) which includes the line: php_register_globals off. Your host must then have settings that allow the use of .htaccess files. Please ask your web host about this.

Steps to find if you meet requirements

1. Create an empty file named test.php and place the file in a public available directory on your webserver. For instance, put it in /home/USER/public_html/test.php.
   
   
    
    
2. Edit test.php, and put this content into the file:
   

   <? phpinfo(); ?>

    
    
3. Access http://www.yourdomain.com/test.php
    
    
    
4.  You should now get a screen like this:
   
   
    
    
    
5. If you do not get a screen like this, you do not have PHP configured, and you must fix that before you can install the program. You can now search (using your browsers Find menu-item) for register_globals and magic_quotes and see their value.
   
   Please note that you will see two columns a bit furher down. One is the setting that is specially configured for the local directory THIS FILE is in (local value, to the left). The column to the rigth is the system default value. If you place test.php in a directory where you have activated register_globals for instance, your left column will show Off, and maybe the rigth column is On. Then, the local value (to the left) is the one used for all php files in that directory!