OpenBiblio is an easy to use, automated library system written in PHP licensed under GNU General Public License.

1. Installation of OpenBiblio using EasyPHP Vimal Kumar V. Asian School of Business

10. After installation, a short cut to EasyPHP is created in the directory " Start/Programs/EasyPHP ". When EasyPHP is launched, an icon appears beside the clock. A menu for appears when Right Click on the EasyPHP task bar icon,

11. Click on “Administration” option. You can see the following page if no errors in the installation process.

12. Right Click on the easyphp icon on the windows taskbar and select the option ‘ Administration ’. Then a Easyphp administration screen will appear and click on MANAGE DATABASE button on the screen.

13. Then PhpMyAdmin screen appears. Type database name OpenBiblio in the text box and click on ‘ Create Button’

14. From the next screen click on “SQL” option, This action leads you to SQL query area. Type this query in the following screen “ grant all on OpenBiblio.* to librarian@localhost identified by ‘secret’ “and click ‘ GO ’ button. Here secret is the database password. You can give a strong password instead of secret.

15. Download OpenBiblio software file from http:// obiblio.sourceforge.net / . Extract your OpenBiblio compressed file using winzip, Winrar or 7zip software. Copy the unzipped directory to C:rogram FilesasyPHP1-8ww.

16. Open C:rogram FilesasyPHP1-8wwdatabase_constants.php in word pad or note pad. Replace Database username and password as in the following picture.

17. Create a directory “ C:/tmp ” . Open C:rogram FilesasyPHP1-8onf_files/php.ini file and find session.save_path = "${path}mp and replace like this, session.save_path = "C:mp"

19. If settings are normal, final installation screen will appears like this.

20. Click on start using OpenBiblio. This leads to welcome screen of OpenBiblio. Remove the openbiblio/install directory completely Go to Admin page. Enter username and password “admin” and do more settings.

21. Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 India www.asbindia.in/vimal This document Licensed under Creative Commons