System Requirements

In order to have PHPDevShell running, your system must meet some requirements.

Runtime software

You need the following on your server for PHPDevShell to work correctly.

• PHP: Greater then PHP 5.2.x is minimum from PHPDevShell V 2.5.1.
• PHPDevShell was developed on MySQL 5.0.x, I believe older versions above MySQL 4.1 should work fine. (Multiple database support will be added soon).
• Apache: PHPDevShell was developed on Apache 2.x, 1.x should work fine though.

Other databases

We are moving from hard-coded MySQL to PDO, which means theoretically you can use any database PDO supports, however we have only tested MySQL.

Other webservers

PHPDevShell have been developed for Apache and even if 99% of the code is server-agnostic, there are few lines using Apache-related features (see here). We are currently testing deployment on Nginx.

Some plugins and themes uses external libraries through Composer. To update the upstream library, you may need Composer if a plugin update is not available.

!Be careful! the first file (PHPDS-defaults.config.php) is part of the distribution and therefore will be overwritten on each update. You should not modify this file, as your changes will be lost. For a simple single site setup use the single-site.config.php.RENAME (remove .RENAME) file instead, or the site-specific config files (see below). single-site.config.php will always load when available.
Override default settings by copying settings from PHPDS-defaults.config.php to your own config file.