Miaow

Miaow is a reworked and improved version of the content management system (CMS) originally developed for the http://rain.ifmo.ru/cat/ website.

It has been developed as an educational project back in 2006-2007.

Requirements

• PHP 5
• PEAR with DB package (to be replaced with PDO soon, see [issue 11])
• MySQL (other databases could work to, but we never tested)
• PHPUnit 3, if you want to run the unit tests

Most Linux boxes already have all these installed, except PHPUnit. Refer to PHPUnit installation instructions.

On Windows you may use one of those all-on-one web-server distributions, for example VertrigoServ. In this case PEAR packages have to be installed manually.

Installing Miaow

1. Copy config.example to config.php and edit the latter file to match your environment.
2. SITE_URL, SKIN, DB_CHARSET, DB_CONNECT_STRING must be set in config.php. Specified database and user must exist.
3. Run install.php by typing SITE_URL/install.php in your browser. If no errors show up, Miaow is installed successfully.
4. Verify installation by running tests: cd tests && for f in *.php; do phpunit $f; done
5. Open SITE_URL/index.php in your browser. This is your website's front page.

Troubleshooting

When nothing works and even the tests fail...

First of all, check DB_CHARSET value you set in config.php.

• It must be the name of charset in which PHP gets data from database.
• It must be something that iconv function can understand.