PHPBack is a web-based customer feedback system written in PHP. In this tutorial, we will be walking you through the steps of installing PHPBack on a Windows 10 machine.
Prerequisites
- A Windows operating system (Windows 10 is preferred).
- A web server that supports PHP. We will be using XAMPP in this tutorial.
- A web browser.
Step 1: Download PHPBack
- Go to the PHPBack website at https://www.phpback.org/download.
- Download the latest version of PHPBack as a ZIP archive.
- Extract the ZIP archive to a folder on your local machine.
Step 2: Setup a Database
- Open XAMPP and start the Apache and MySQL services.
- Open your web browser and go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin.
- Create a new database by clicking on the "Databases" tab, then entering a name for your database and selecting "utf8_general_ci" as the collation.
- Click "Create" to create the database.
Step 3: Configure the PHPBack Directory
- Open the folder that you extracted the PHPBack ZIP archive to.
- Locate the
config-sample.php file and rename it to config.php.
- Open the
config.php file in a text editor.
- Set the
$db_server, $db_user, $db_password, and $db_name variables to match the details of the MySQL database that you created in Step 2. Save and close the file.
Step 4: Deploy PHPBack
- Copy the contents of the
phpback folder to the root directory of your web server.
- Open your web browser and go to http://localhost/.
- You will be presented with the PHPBack installation screen. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
- Once the installation is complete, you can access PHPBack by going to http://localhost/phpback/ in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed PHPBack on Windows 10.
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