Installing and Configuring Scriblio
You want to use Scriblio at your place of work and want to know how to get started. This page will outline the requirements and the steps involved in getting Scriblio running.
Install
Scriblio is based on WordPress, so you can follow their five minute installation instructions to get started, though we highly recommend that you use Subversion to install and update WordPress.
The quick installation instructions on the download page will get you started, though be sure your server has current versions of PHP and MySQL. This installation screencast walks through a typical installation using Subversion.
Configure
Once you get WordPress and the Scriblio components installed, the
wp-config.php file created, and you’ve run through the install script, it’s time to introduce yourself to the the dashboard and administration panels. That’s where you’ll activate the plugins and theme that make Scriblio work. The installation screencast includes those steps as well.
Discuss
The best place to get help with installation and configuration questions is in the Scriblio group.
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September 30th, 2007 at 9:24 am
show me the requirements!
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Hi, I’m trying to get Scriblio up and running, but when I add it to my plugins folder and subsequently activate it, I get this lovely little error: “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” I do believe I meet all the server requirements.
Maybe it’s because I’m on the latest version of Wordpress???
Thanks for any help.
Paul
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
@Paul:
That error haunts me. I assume you’re using the most recently released version. If so, go to Options -> bSuite and click the PHP Info button. The big thing to look for there is that it’s PHP 5.x, but you should compare it to this one, as any differences may be worth looking into.
Finally, you should try to figure out exactly what error is happening. Unfortunately that requires some work. First, make sure display_errors is on in your php.ini or .htaccess. Then, in your active theme’s index.php, add the following lines of PHP code:
error_reporting(E_ERROR);
require( ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/scriblio/scriblio.php');
That should cause whatever errors are occurring to be shown on the page when you load the front page of your WordPress site.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Hi
I installed Wordpress 2.3.3 and uploaded all the Scriblio plugins. The only one I can’t activate is “Leveraging WordPress as a library OPAC”. What I get is “Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ “……on line 84.
What have I done wrong?
Thanks
Daniel
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
@Daniel: It looks like you’re running PHP4.
March 7th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Is it possible to make your requirments public?
March 11th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
@Hazman Aziz: I’ve just rewritten this page and fixed the broken link to requirements. The requirements are also listed on download page.
Requirements:
MySQL 5.x
PHP 5.1 or newer
Apache with mod_rewrite
April 1st, 2008 at 6:55 am
Hello,
I’m librarian of Spanish Library. I install Wordpress and all of the plugins. I’ve got a problem with de import. Can someone tell me what Marc format is? I’ve done the import with MARC ISO 2709 but I didn’t import anything.
In other order, where do registers go in the Wordpress?
Thank you
April 15th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Does Scriblio work with WordPress 2.5?
April 15th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Never mind. I saw in the revision history that WordPress 2.5 is included.
May 24th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Hi I am testing Scriblio at http://davidkane.net/wordpress/
I am using the current verison fo WP (2.5) and am able to use the III importer (we are an Innovative library) to parse the records directly from our OPAC.
When it comes to ‘publish harvesterd records’ nothing happens, unfortunately.
I get no errors and no warnings.
Anyone can shed light on this?
Thanks,
David Kane
Systems Librarian
Waterford Institute of Technology
IRELAND
May 24th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
@David Kane:
There was a thread about this on the mail list:
http://groups.google.com/group/scriblio/browse_thread/thread/bb396da016eeba75
There’s an inconsistent problem in the creation of the wp_scrib_harvest table, and on top of that WP2.5x supresses more DB errors than it used to. Can you take a look and make sure that table is there, and report back to the list?