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<h2>Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
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How do I import my Internet Explorer favorites?
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From within explorer, export your favorites as HTML
(File->Import and Export). This file can be imported into
Brim as Netscape HTML/Bookmarks file</td>
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How do I import my outlook contacts?
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You can export each contact as a vCard, but this will result
in lots of vCards that need to be seperately imported into Brim.
You can also you the following tool:
<a href="http://www.stoer.de/ipod/ipod_en.htm">Outpod</a>.
Outpod is a program to do bulk exports of contact and calendar
information from Microsoft Outlook to files according to the
vCard and vCalendar standard (vCalendar format is not yet
supported by Brim).
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How do I edit/delete a folder?
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Simply click on the folder icon in front of the folder name. This
will take you to the modification screen in which you will also
find the option to delete a folder.
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How do I use the QuickMark functionality and what about the
installation path?
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The QuickMark is a special bookmark. You need to add this link to
the bookmarks in your browser. The next time you visit a page you
want to bookmark in Brim (and not your browser), you click on the
QuickMark bookmark in your browser and the link will be added to Brim.
For this, the QuickMark functionality needs to know the installation
path (something like: <code>http://www.yourhost.com/brim</code>). The
administrator of the application can set this path via the application
configuration.
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<h2>Customizing</h2>
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How do I remove unwanted plugins?
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For Brim 1.0.0 and Brim 1.0.1
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Edit the file '<code>framework/configuration/plugins.php</code>'
and remove the unwanted entries
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Remove the Controllers for the specific plugins from the
application root
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Remove the plugin directories from the '<code>plugins</code>'
subdirectory
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For Brim 1.0.2 and higher
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Simply remove the directory from the plugin directory
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How do I remove unnecessary/unwanted templates from the application?
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For Brim 1.0.0 and Brim 1.0.1
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Edit the file '<code>framework/configuration/templates.php</code>'
and remove the unwanted templates from the list.
This will make sure that no-one can select that template
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For all versions of Brim:
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Change your admin template settings to the desired template
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Make sure that no user has this template in his preferences.
If someone does, change the db entry to one of the templates
you would like to keep (if you skip this step, the user will
see a blank screen after login)i
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Edit the default template in the signupAction (file:
'<code>signupAction.php</code>'). Make sure that it points to
an existing template
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Edit the '<code>brim.php</code>' file and make sure that the
icons are loaded from an existing template (there are two
references to existing templates, change them both!)i
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Remove the directories in the '<code>template</code>'
subdirectory (except for the sidebar!)
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How do I install brim in an existing database, used by another application?
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My web server only allows once Mysql database;
I am this database using for wordpress (a blog program)
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I am wondering how to intall Brim without upsetting the
part of Mysql which Wordpress uses. In wordpress, a
$table_prefix has been specified as a database prefix -
the prefix is wp_. The purpose of this is to allow
multiple wordpress configurations.
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You can safely install brim next to any other program
using the same database. Brim uses a fixed table prefix
(brim_) so it does not clash with other table
names. You can only install one version of brim per database though....
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<h2>Trouble shooting</h2>
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I get the following error:
<code>Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect()</code>
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This means that you do not have the mysql extension compiled.
Install the php-mysql extenstion or recompile php with this
option enabled.
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The GMail plugin doesn't show up
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This means that you do not have the php libcurl extenstion installed.
For more information, look here:
<a href="http://curl.haxx.se/">http://curl.haxx.se/</a> and here:
<a href="http://www.php.net/curl">http://www.php.net/curl</a>
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The Password plugin doesn't show up
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This means that you do not have the php libmcrypt extenstion installed.
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The DepotTracker and Collections plugin don't show up
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Install the following php-extensions: GD-library (available at http://www.boutell.com/gd/)
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I get an error indicating the some files are not found
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Do you get an error message similar to the following?
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Warning: main(framework/Controller.php):
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/brim/public_html/brim/framework/DashboardController.php
on line 3
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'framework/Controller.php'
(include_path='/usr/share/php')
in /home/brim/public_html/brim/framework/DashboardController.php
on line 3
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This means that your include path is incorrect. Your include path MUST
contain the current directory, so you need to edit your php.ini file and
add the current directory ('.') to your include path. For instance:
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include_path = "/usr/share/php"
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Should become
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include_path = ".:/usr/share/php"
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Remember to restart the http server after applying the changes!
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I want to modify some files on my webserver, but I
have no permissions when using ftp/telnet! WHat is happening?
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If you use the unpack utility provided with the brim installation,
you upload the brim-xxx.tar.gz file and the unpack.php file.
Afterwards, you tell the webserver (by using the unpack utility) i
to unpack all files. At this moment, the webserver becomes the owner
of those files and you are no longer allowed to modify any of those
files anymore. The workaround is that you unpack all files locally
and upload them (via ftp) individually.
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I cannot unzip the file brimfull-xxx.zip!
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You are probably using WinRAR as unzip utility?
This application does not unzip correctly. Try WinZip instead.
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My Web hosting provider is free.fr (or Online). I get
plenty of error messages "Warning session_start():
open(/var/www/free.fr/***/sessions/". What should I do?
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With FREE and Online, sessions operate in a particular way: you
must create a directory named "sessions" at the root level of your site.
Sessions will be directly stored in this directory.
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(Answer from <a href="http://www.phpmyvisites.net/faq/?lang=en">phpMyVisites</a>)
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