Installation

WebYep Dreamweaver Extension

If you are using Adobe® Dreamweaver® to create your web pages, you can also use the WebYep Dreamweaver Extension.

The WebYep Dreamweaver Extension is the file "webyep.mxp" - install it by simply double clicking it. This will start the "Extension Manager" - just follow its instructions to install the extension.

 


The Extension Manager with installed WebYep Dreamweaver Extension

Remark: If you have installed more than one Adobe® application, be sure to select the right application before installing. You can also transfer extensions from one application to another with the "File / Import Extensions..." menu command.

The webyep-system folder

The core of WebYep is a set of PHP scripts contained in a folder named "webyep-system". This webyep-system folder must be uploaded onto your webspace (like all other pages/images of your website) - usually into the root folder of your website, where your homepage (index.html or index.php) resides.


The webyep-system folder in the root folder of a website

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Configuration

Before uploading the webyep-system folder to your webspace you should setup the configuration: Whenever a user (the person who is editing the content of the website) wants to change the website's content, he/she has to login with username and password (by clicking the WebYep Logon Button in a page). This username and password are the only configuration settings you have to take care of:

  1. Open the config-inc.php file inside the webyep-system folder.
  2. Switch to "code view" in Dreamweaver to read it - this file contains only PHP source code!
  3. Enter your desired username and password inside the quotes after webyep_sAdminName and webyep_sAdminPassword.

e.g.:

// Username and password for edit mode.
// You can freely choose these and they must be entered by
// users after clicking the lock icon to logon before being
// allowed to start editing.
$webyep_sAdminName = "admin";
$webyep_sAdminPassword = "test";

Support for special character sets

You can also set the configuration variable $webyep_sCharset to an HTML character set.

If you have set a character set in your web pages (with the "Content-Type" meta tag), you should also set this character set in this configuration variable (e.g. "iso-8859-2" for eastern european languages, or "utf-8"). This will make sure, WebYep displays the special characters using this character set. But it will also stop WebYep from converting texts to HTML entities! WebYep will instead insert the meta tag in each of its editor pages.

Installation on the web server

To install WebYep on your web server simply upload the webyep-system folder like all your pages and images via FTP. You can this with any FTP appication or directly from Dreamweaver's site window with the "put" command.


Upload ("put") the webyep-system folder with your other files into the server

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Activation

To enable WebYep (and thus PHP) to store data on the web server on most server systems you must give PHP permission to do so by setting the unix file permissions for the folder PHP should store data in.

To see how to activate WebYep with other applications than Dreamweaver, please see "Activation, Technical Details".

From within Dreamweaver the activation can be accomplished by choosing the "Activate WebYep" command from the context menu showed when right clicking the webyep-system folder in the list of remote files in Dreamweaver.

List the remote files in the site window (or "files" panel), by choosing "Remote view" in the upper right popup menu. Then right click the "webyep-system" folder and choose "Activate WebYep" in the appearing context menu.


The list of remote files (the files on the server).
Right click the webyep-system folder in this list and choose "Activate WebYep".

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Verification

Whether the activation of WebYep was successful can be verified by calling the WebYep status/info page:

http://www.mywebsite.com/webyep-system/info.php

Summary

  • The Dreamweaver Extension:
    A file named "webyep.mxp" - it contains forms, inspectors, etc. for inserting and setting up the WebYep Elements in your web pages using Dreamweaver®. Install by simply double clicking it and following the instructions of the thereby launched Extension Manager.
  • The webyep-system folder:
    A folder named "webyep-system" with various PHP scripts etc. - the core of the WebYep system.
    This folder should be put in the root directory of your website (where your homepage – index.html or index.php – resides).
  • Configuration:
    Set username and password in config-inc.php.
  • Installation on the web server:
    Upload the webyep-system folder like the other files of your website to your web server (usually directly with Dreamweaver via FTP).
  • Activation:
    in Dreamweaver: Right click the webyep-system folder in the list of remote files ("Remote view" in the site window) and choose "Activate WebYep". Or use any other FTP/SCP application to set the access priviliges for the "data" folder inside the webyep-system folder accordingly.
  • Checking:
    You can check the status of your WebYep installation via the URL
    http://www.mywebsite.com/webyep-system/info.php
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