Basic Install
1. create a blank database and make fure you have a username
and password for your database server
In some cases your ISP will have to create this for you.
This user must be able to create,alter and update tables and entries.
2. Unzip the program
goto into the directory where you put the software.
there will be a directory call includes
In the includes directory there is a file called setup.php
Edit the file with WordPad or your favorite text editor.
3 . Set the following required options.
Setup.php options
All options are in the following format
$Variable = "YourVaules";
| $db_name | The name of the database you or your isp created |
| $db_user | Database username |
| $db_password | Database password |
| $db_server | Database Address or IP |
| $config_table | A name of your choice to hold the setup options for this site |
Web install Options
| url | ex. "http://www.mysite.com/"; with tailing slash after domain name |
| ssl | Secure site url ex. "https://www.mysite.com/ |
| websitename | Site name |
| affiliateid | your full affilate id |
| PromoCode | last four numbers of your affiliate id |
| subAffiliateId | this is not required |
| booking_log_table | Booking Log |
| booking_error_table | Error Log |
| ContactEmail | return email address on bookings |
| EmailContact | Name of person or website for bookings email |
| subject | subjet for you email confirmation |
All the above options and advanced options do can be setup after the install
in the xml admin.
refer to Advanced options page for more settings.
4. Login to your user account http://www.xmltravel.biz/users
with the account that you creating when
you purchased the software and create a domain license for the site
a domain name is "xmltravel.biz" not "www.xmltravel.biz"
or "hotels.xmltravl.biz"
Download the license file
Save the file as youdomainname.com.php replacing youdomainname.com with your
domain.
in some cases your browser will add [1] to the name, if this is the case rename
the file.
Save that file into the includes directory.
5. Using a ftp client you now need to upload all the files
to your server.
If your main index page is index.php do not upload the index.php file at this
time.
6. Point you browser to http://www.yourwebsite.com/install/
and follow the setup for the
database. When this is done using your ftp client you should delete the install
directory on your
website. If this not the first domain on the server and you used the same setup
options for the database you can skip this step.
7. You can now check your setup and add any advanced options
in your xmladmin. Point your web browser to http://www.yourwebsite.com/xmladmin/.
The default username and password are admin and admin for the password.
In the admin option on the left hand side you need to create a new username
and delete the default one.
Before you go live you need to make sure that under advanced that the xml servers
are set to the default server and not set to xmltest.
8. Point your web browser to index.php on your site, search
in a city of your choice for avalible hotels. if you
do not recieve any errors than your site is working and you are now ready to
custom the look of
your site. If you do not recive all the results for a selection of dates and
cities than there may be a
problem with the install or with the setup of your affilate id.
9. Proceed to Setup
of your index page