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1 | Notes for plat/al, a platform for alumni services |
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3 | PRESENTATION |
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6 | plat/al is the platform used by Polytechnique.org [1], the alumni site of |
7 | Ecole Polytechnique [2], France. This package is a suite of web applications |
8 | geared towards alumni websites. This is used to deliver services to more than |
9 | 12.000 registered alumni on Polytechnique.org. |
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11 | More information can be found on the plat/al project page [3]. |
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13 | [1] Polytechnique.org http://www.polytechnique.org/ |
14 | [2] Ecole Polytechnique http://www.polytechnique.edu/ |
15 | [3] plat/al project http://opensource.polytechnique.org/platal/ |
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18 | REQUIREMENTS |
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21 | First of all you will need a webserver. If you do not currently have a |
22 | webserver, you might consider taking a look at the Apache webserver : |
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24 | http://httpd.apache/org/ |
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26 | plat/al is written in PHP so you need PHP support for your webserver. You |
27 | can find PHP here : |
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29 | http://www.php.net/ |
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31 | plat/al makes use of the Smarty template engine which can be found here : |
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33 | http://smarty.php.net/ |
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35 | plat/al also makes heavy use of the Diogenes library, libdiogenes which lives |
36 | here : |
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38 | http://opensource.polytechnique.org/libdiogenes/ |
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40 | You will need to have access to a MySQL server. If you do not currently have a |
41 | MySQL server running, you can download it here : |
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43 | http://www.mysql.com/ |
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46 | BUILDING |
47 | -------- |
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49 | To build plat/al, simply run "make" from the toplevel directory. |
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