29 June 2016, 19:10

Hi all

I would like to ask how to add extra information for adodb in the instruction manual.

in the instruction, it describe it as :

Optionally: adodb (improves performance)

• The ADOdb PHP extension, written in C, which Mahara will automatically detect and use to improve the performance of its database layer.

but when someone download it from the  https://github.com/ADOdb/ADOdb .

it merely tells user to unpack the folder and place it the web root folder.

in order to make installation more explicitly, the admin of system needs to download the package and place the folder to the path where 'init.php' located. and rename adodb5 folder to adodb  folder.

If this is not correct, please someone pointer out my mistakes

29 June 2016, 21:06

Hi,

I believe that is referring to installing the PHP5 ADOdb extension which is a linux package

It can be installed via (for ubuntu):

 sudo apt-get install php5-adodb

Cheers

Robert

29 June 2016, 22:02

Thanks Robert

For people who use centos 7, like me, there is no adodb yum repository and that is reason why I would like to post it. as long as it works, i would like to share it so it may save time for others who try to configure out how it works.