Chamilo - Server Dependencies
Introduction
In the ever-evoluting web environment, Chamilo has to rely on
state-of-the-art third-party software in order to provide you with useful and
practical features. Some of this third-party software usually come bundled with
your operating system, but some don't. This means that if that software is
not installed on your Chamilo server, along with Chamilo, you might not enjoy
the best possible experience with your Chamilo platform. To avoid this problem,
most of the sofware we used is bundled into a typical Chamilo install.
However, if such a third-party software is too big to be included, or if it
doesn't make sense to include it for whatever reason, you must make sure it is
installed on your system. This is the goal of this list: to help you keep a
track of what software is needed and, as much as possible, where to get the
required information to install it.
Dependencies - client-side
- Any modern browser (IE6 is obviously *excluded*). Safari is known to have small issues with the WYSIWYG editor.
- Optional: Flash plugin (only required for a few features)
Dependencies - server-side
- Apache 2+
- PHP 5.3 or 5.4 with MySQL bindings (mysqlnd is recommended) and php-gd extension to allow Chamilo to resize pictures. The
new components we have included from the Symfony framework highly depend on namespaces, a feature that appeared in PHP 5.3.0
- MySQL 5.1+ or any version of MariaDB database server
- php5-intl
- php5-imagick
- php5-curl (only required for a feature in the links tool)
- php5-mcrypt (only required for a feature in the survey tool)
- php5-ldap (only required for connection to a LDAP server)
- php5-xapian (only required for full-text indexing and search)
Included Dependencies
- EZpdf and MPDF
- FCKEditor (previously HTMLArea)
- FormValidator
- iCalCreator
- kSes
- MIMETex
- MP3Player
- PCLZip
- PEAR::HTML_Common
- PEAR::HTML_QuickForm
- PEAR::HTML_Table
- PEAR::OLE
- PEAR::Pager
- PEAR::Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
- PECL
- PHPMailer
- WCAG_Rendering
- xajax
- jQuery
