Help needed with iGamingCMS admin Section

[VReyes]

Hello All,

I stumble on a site and found iGaming CMS in it. I want to make a gaming website and found Joomla which for about a month i started on the structure looking for components and modules that will fit my needs.

As of 2 days now i have been looking at iGamingCMS feature lists and reading the forums.

I need to hear from everyone should i stick with Joomla or turn away and use iGaming CMS. Why and Why not? Also to let everyone know that i am not good w/ coding.

any feedbacks is greatly appreciated in making my decisions.

thank you,

VR

[UnderDog]

Hi VR,

Welcome to the forums and iGamingCMS.
I have no list for you with pros and cons, because i program on iGamingCMS myself. As a matter of fact, we are working on a new version.

The better question is : why should you want to turn Joomla into your gaming website when iGamingCMS is right there?
What stops you from using iGamingCMS?

Do you need something special?
Just let us know ok, maybe we'll make it in some version.

[VReyes]

thanks for your reply underdog,

Well Joomla cms is pretty easy to use, just find a component or module you like set some settings and its done.

I myself does not know any coding like php, html, website design.

So i need to know how friendly is iGaming CMS or what kind of technical experience do you need to use it?

thanks,

VR

[UnderDog]

For using iGamingCMS you don't need any technical experience at all.
Just install it.
Then you go to the admin section.
At the left side you see a lot of "Module Managers"
There's a Link Manager, News Manager, Game Manager, etc
You can first add Game Sections (PC, Playstation, you name it)
You can Add new games as you like.
Those games belong to game sections

After you've added games you can add news, previews, etc (don't forget to add the sections there too)
After news, previews, etc are added you go to the "Relational Content Manager"
Search for a game
Then you can add the news etc to that game (and find the news items you've just added)
That way you link the news, previews etc to the games.

On the frontend you can see the result
I'm making more themes (templates) for the frontend, just give me some time.
I'm working on the new version first.

Joomla was made for "general" content management
iGamingCMS was made for games

[VReyes]

underdog,

thanks again for you reply and explanation. i will go ahead and try your iGaming CMS. i will install this using the WAMP server. i will let you know how it goes.

VR :)

[VReyes]

underdog,

not sure if you are familiar w/ WAMP but i am getting this error when trying to run the iGaming CMS:

Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchNextObject() on a non-object in C:\wamp\www\iGaming\global.php on line 37


V

[UnderDog]

I'm familiar with WAMP, I use it myself.

The error means, that there is no result from the SQL query that's above line 37
In this case:


$sp_configuration = $db->Execute("SELECT * FROM `sp_configuration`");


Here comes the technical part.


Check in your phpmyadmin if the table sp_configuration is available inside your database
Copy the SQL query and paste it in phpmyadmin in the SQL "tab" for your database, see what the result is.
Check if the config.php is filled


If so, I'll give you a line to add to the global.php and we'll see why that error occurs.

[VReyes]

Please bear with me on this as i do not have any coding experience.
Im in phpMyadmin and i clicked on the databases. it shows information_schema; mysql; vincentr

Can you please walk me thru it? while i wait for you reply i will read some phpmyadmin documentation.

thank you.


Check in your phpmyadmin if the table sp_configuration is available inside your database

Not sure where to find this?

Copy the SQL query and paste it in phpmyadmin in the SQL "tab" for your database, see what the result is.
Check if the config.php is filled


If so, I'll give you a line to add to the global.php and we'll see why that error occurs.[/QUOTE]

[VReyes]

Hey Underdog,

Ok so i kinda read some basic article about phpmyadmin so i went in it again and click databases> mysql and did not see the sp_configuration. hope i did it right.


VR

[UnderDog]

There's the problem.
(you did great, by the way)

You don't go to databases > MySQL
but you go to databases > "your database for igamingcms"

You are probably missing the table for igamingcms. It wasn't created.

Let's take 1 step back. You got the igamingcms folder, right?
(I hope it's in igamingcms, because I took that as an example)

It's on localhost (where phpmyadmin is)

Go to http://localhost/igamingcms/install/
Follow instructions

Now the database and all the tables will be created.
To make sure, go to phpmyadmin and see if your database is there
Click on that database and see if some tables are there.

[VReyes]

underdog thanks. it is installed now w/ no errors. Now what do i do?

I'm assuming this is the Cpanel
cpanel.jpg

On iGaming CMS documentation says:
To log into your newly installed iGaming CMS site, you need to access the administration URL at:
http://www.yoursite.com/igaming/admin/

so i entered this http://www.igamingvince.com/igaming/admin/ but cannot display.

during the install where it asks to put your URL (http://) i finished it entering www.igamingvince.com for my test purposes only.

VR

[UnderDog]

Try:
http://localhost/igaming/admin/

Igamingvince would be a website far away which I could see too (on a host)
Localhost is your local computer (with WAMP)

[VReyes]

No Luck.

I can only get to the http://localhost.igaming

[UnderDog]

Hi vreyes,

What does it say when you go to
http://localhost.igaming

What does it say when you go to
http://localhost

What does it say when you go to
http://localhost/igaming

For your information : localhost.igaming is a special setting which is really strange that you have that on your computer.

Can you make screenshots and post them here?

[VReyes]

What does it say when you go to
http://localhost.igaming

sorry. typo should have been /

What does it say when you go to
http://localhost

this will be the wamp server info.

What does it say when you go to
http://localhost/igaming

shows whats in the screenshot cpanel.jpg

Can you make screenshots and post them here?[/QUOTE]

provided.



thank you,

VR

[UnderDog]

Ok, we're almost there.
Go to
http://localhost/igaming/admin/
and tell us what you see (screenshot ;))

[VReyes]

http://localhost/igaming/admin/
and tell us what you see (screenshot ;))[/QUOTE]

this is what i get.

[UnderDog]

This is a nice challenge :D
Where on your computer did you put the files of igaming?

Look in the igaming folder
Do you see the folder named admin
(I really hope you do)

Do you see file named .htaccess
Rename that file
Look for 1 folder higher than the igaming folder
Do you see a file named .htaccess
Rename that file

If you renamed either 1 or 2 .htaccess files and the admin folder was present, try again to go for http://localhost/igaming/admin/

Which program did you use to install Apache, PHP and MySQL on your computer. Was it WAMP?