BellaBiblio
BellaBiblio is the third installment in a series of simple scripts to utilise text files (instead of complex databases) that are designed for the PHP beginner.
BellaBook is designed to provide an up-to-date, feature packed book/media rate and review system with an easy-to-edit coding structure; using CSS to control the core structure.
You should probably start with the installation instructions below, or if you’re still not convinced skip to the feature list.
Installing BellaBiblio
First things first, you’ll want to download the script:
Once the script has downloaded — it shouldn’t take long — extract the files using the built in Windows zip tool, WinZip, or your favourite archiving software. After extraction, you’ll want to rename the folder to something like “books”, “bookreviews” or “bellabiblio” as this will be part of your BellaBiblio URL.
Open config.php and customise the options carefully. The options you choose must remain inside the quotation marks. E.g. if you want your admin username to be jimbo, you’d change $admin_name = "admin"; to: $admin_name = "jimbo";. If you wish to use the Ajax Amazon integration you must get an API key from Amazon Web Services
When you’re all done, upload the whole lot to your website using your normal FTP client. You now need to use the chmod command to change the permission of the “.txt” files to 666 (or owner: read, write; group: read, write; world: read, write). If you get stuck, Google should be able to help you out.
That’s it! Go play with your new book rating system.
BellaBiblio Features
- Integration of Amazon Affiliates ID automatically
- Sort by Title, Author, Genre and Rating
- Store small synopsis/reviews for each boook
- Search for a book via Amazon without leaving the script (Ajax)
- Automatically insert Amazon results into Add Book form
Page created: April 8, 2008
Page last modified: April 8, 2008
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