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Using EasyPhpCalendar with Joyent Facebook Accelerator

February 13, 2009 at 7:34 pm (Technical solution, walkthrough)

 

Having searched unsuccessfully for a php timeline I stumbled upon Easy PHP Calendar which is a very pretty and full of features.

 

Running the test script

So to see if it is worth investing in I needed to install it on my Joyent Accelerator, using the test script I found that:

Zend Optimizer: Fail – Zend Optimizer Not Detected

ionCube Loader: Pass

Following the instructions here found the simplest way :http://docs.easyphpcalendar.com/

So IonCube it was, however since Joyent only allow SFTP, the automated installer was of no use. I manually extracted the files using WinRAR, then SFTP’d to the server using WINSCP to copy the calendar directory across ( remembering to force transfer in binary mode).

 

Now in the instructions it says to go to http://www.YourDomainName.com/calendar/setup/index.php however this throws up an error containing the below:

…”requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_sun_5.2.so to be installed by the site administrator.”

 

Installing the IonCube loaders

Clearly we need to install the loaders, in the wiki we see this ( clarifications added by me in red:

 

• Download the latest version of the ionCube loaders from http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php for Solaris (x86).
• At the time of writing this it was http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_sun_x86.tar.bz2

 

• Extract the tarball moving the ioncube/ioncube_loader_sun_5.2_ts.so into your ~/php/ directory.

 

• Do this with:
• tar xjf ioncube_loaders_sun_x86.tar.bz2  
• *X means eXtract, J means its a .bz2 and F means the filename follows

 

• You need to copy the files to a newly created the folder in /usr/local/ with :
• sudo cp -r ioncube /usr/local/ioncube
• *sudo is like “run as administrator” you will need to enter your password. -r means its a directory

 

• Add an extension=ioncube_loader_sun_5.2_ts.so to your websites php.ini and the ioncube loader should load

 

• Open up Virtualmin in your browser, click Webmin >Others>PHP configuration>Edit Manually

 

• paste in extension=ioncube_loader_sun_5.2_ts.so  at the bottom of the list of extensions

 

• Restart your apache Server from the main Virtualmin page

 

Permissions

Try this link again http://www.YourDomainName.com/calendar/setup/index.php and you should now see a EasyPHPCalendar page informing you permissions are incorrect, so change them:

 

• Open a secure putty session
• Navigate to calendar folder using cd ~/web/public/calendar
• Change permissions with chmod 646 filename

for these files

• config.inc.php
• license.php
• calendar.php
• If you find that it it still missing permissions ( check using ls -l ) try again using
• chmod g+rw filename
• chmod u+rw filename

 

Try the link again then follow the onscreen instructions to add password and away you go!