I.Installing Stone


Follow these steps:
  • Edit config_mysql.php from includes directory
  • Edit settings.inc from includes
  • Run install.php
  • Give rigth permissions to blocs/menu_up.php (chmod 0777 blocs/menu_up.php)
  • Give rigth permissions to articles ,categories,rss directories (here will be generatic static pages with apache rights)
  • Give rigth permissions to cache directory (here will be cached rss feed)
  • Rename htaccess to .htaccess (in some ftp clients .htaccess is hidden)
Note: 1.Your web server must take in consider the .htaccess file, that is in the root of application.
This is needed because all pages are generated in html files, and the links looks like this: http://www.your-domain.com/Friends.html. 2.You should place auto_generate.php script in your crontab.This is useful when you don't write articles for several days,and your visitors can view real cronologic creation time of articles. 3.Stone is css based and is easy to change the design.Modify template.php and style.css 4.Change language from includes/message.php

II.Using application


-Now you can access Stone from the web.
-First of all , you must create a password (for simple login). This can be done by clicking the link: your account->create password (or read next section);
-First, you should create some articles and add some images, then create articles.This is needed because you have to choose this fields when you create new article.
You can mark an article as sticky.What means that? In the right corner is a block named Recomandations.There will appear the sticky articles. A regular article will live in the main page as long as no new article is added. Then it will appear in the archive. A sticky article allways appear on the Recomandations block.

What mean public articles? Lets say that you write an article and you are uncertain if is good or not. You can make it hidden and others people won't see it.When you login you will be able to see, edit or delete it.

In this version you cand display in main page a rss feed section. Rss address can be choosen from settings.php.

III.Authentification methods

There are two possible ways:
  1. a simple one, and also the DEFAULT (choose this from settings.php - more info are displayed there):
    • -You are the only user and the authentification is based on the "users" file, located in the directory that contains the html files (articles/users).
    • If you forgot the password, just delete it, and the login link will change into "create password";
  2. advanced :
    • We have developed a system based on client-server authentification.
    • If you want to give admin rights to other friends use the MUMSAI application developed by us.In this way more people can write/edit articles. How you do that:
      • install MUMSAI
      • create new url in MUMSAI site.Get the configuration values and complete them in the settings.php.
      • set LOGIN_TYPE to "advanced" in Stone site (settings.php);