Instructions

For installing Photo Cart on your website, you will need to know how to:

* Unzip a folder on your computer

* FTP upload files to your website / server

* Create a database on your server

If you are unable to get it installed yourself, there is an installation service available on the PicturesPro.com website.

1) Unzip the Photo Cart zip file to a place on your computer.

2) Open your FTP program and connect to your website and navigate into the public folder.

This might be public_html, httpdocs, or you may be in the public folder when you first connect.

3) Find the Photo Cart folder you unzipped on the local side of your FTP program. Upload the "photocart" folder to that public folder.

Note: You can rename the photocart folder to whatever you like. Just do it before uploading it and make sure it is all lowercase and NO spaces.

4) Go to your web hosting control panel and create a new database for Photo Cart.

See the sub categories on creating databases.

5) After all the files have uploaded, go to the install directory in your browser.

This will be your-web-site.com/photocart/install (your-web-site.com actually being YOUR website address).

If you named the photocart folder something else, like proofs, then you would go to your-web-site.com/proofs/install

6) You will be prompt to enter in your database details. Enter those in and following the remaining directions on the screen to finish the installation.

7) Once the installation is complete, you will be prompt to go to the admin and create a master username and password and also register your Photo Cart.

8) The install process will try to delete the install directory when it is complete. If you get a message saying it can not delete the directory you will need to delete it from your FTP program.

And that is it! Your admin login will be your-web-site.com/photocart/admin

If your setup.php file is not writable.

If you get a message saying your setup.php file is not writable for the server, you will have to manually add your database values to it.

In the photocart folder , open the setup.php file in a text editor such as notepad, edit plus , etc .. . Do not use Word, Works or a program similar.

In the setup.php file there are some variables to need to change according to your server.

Be sure you only edit between the double quotes! Example, $setup['pc_db']= "this_is_where_I_edit";

Your Photo Cart folder

You can name the folder for Photo Cart to anything you like, but make sure it is all lower case, letters, numbers and underscores only with no spaces. For example: proofs, clients, etc.

Change this variable and name the included photocart folder the same thing.

$setup['photo_cart_folder'] = "photocart";

Database information

$setup['pc_db_location'] = "localhost"; <-- DATABASE LOCATION: this is normally localhost.

$setup['pc_db'] = "user_photocart"; <-- NAME OF THE DATABASE

$setup['pc_db_user'] = "user_username"; <-- DATABASE USERNAME

$setup['pc_db_pass'] = "password"; <-- DATABASE PASSWORD

The Path & URL ($setup['path'] & $setup['url']) normally DO NOT need to be changed.

$setup['path']= dirname(__FILE__); <-- Path to the photocart folder. **

$setup['url'] = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']."/".$setup['photo_cart_folder'].""; <-- URL to the photocart folder. **

Once you have made these changes, save the file.

Upload (FTP) the setup.php file into your Photo Cart folder overwriting the existing one.