Qool CMS Manual

After installing Qool you should go to your site's URL eg: www.example.com and you will see something like this:

This is the typical Qool portal page. When you install Qool, some modules are installed by default. These are

The System Module (Portal)

The system module is a special module that queries all other modules that support objects. Objects is a feature that will be later explained.

The Qumanager module (Qool User Manager Module)

Qumanager means Qool User Manager and it is a module that manages users and let's someone including the administrator to login, edit profile and many more later explained.

You might also notice another link (Χάρτης) that means Map when translated from Greek (Never mind the Greek language used in the photos. Qool is multilingual and the screenshot was taken during the translation to Greek). This is an internal function that lists all accessible pages for a particular user.

Some things need to be done for your new Qool powered site to be ready. First of all click on the Qumanager module link to login as the admin user:

Some quick info for the screen above:
This is the login area of Qool. You can see the breadcrumb showing: Home → Qumanager
and some fields that need some info. Now fill in the fields with the same data you gave to Qool when you installed it (The data that you put in the /install/data.php file), enter the result of the captcha system in the next box (the result of this screen shot would be 5 ) and hit the Submit button.

If all is OK then you should see this message:

and you should be redirected to your account's page.

Now it is time to administrate our site... Go to www.example.com/admin.php and you will see something like this:

Some quick info for the screen above:
This is the typical admin panel. The template can be changed since it is one single file located in each template directory. The magenta colored sections will be later explained.

That's it. Qool has been installed and it is working correctly. Next we will create a new site and we will see how each site is managed and what type of configuration needed.

We tried to create a very easy to use installer for Qool. The steps for installing Qool at www.example.com are :

1. Edit the /install/data.php file:
   
   $s_username = 'your_username'; // This is the administrator username
   $s_password = 'your_desired_password'; //This is the administrator password
   $s_email = 'Youremail@here'; //The administrator email
   $s_spname = 'QoolS'; //The site key. This is used to identify your site
   $s_url = 'www.example.com'; //The main URL of the first site
   $s_sitePass = 'QoolS'; //The site password
   ?>

2. Edit the /kernel/dbSet.php file:
   
   //Your SQL type. Default is MySQL
   $dbaseType= 'mysql';
   //Your db user string. This must be a username that has been added to the database.
   $dbUser = 'root';
   //Your db pass. The user's password
   $dbPass = 'password';
   //Your db host. Most of the times this would be : localhost
   $dbHost = 'localhost';
   //Your DB name. Make sure the database exists before you start the installer.
   $database = 'qool';
   //The tables prefix. You can change it to whatever you want.
   $_SESSION='qc_';
   ?>

3. Open up www.example.com/install/index.php on your browser and follow the instructions.

Sample images from the Qool installer. It is generally a windows like Next → Next → Next procedure.