phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ system using PHP. phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ-system. It supports various databases to store all data, PHP 5.3. 

Install phpMyFAQ On Ubuntu/CentOS 6.5 – An Open Source FAQ System:

 phpmyfaq (takes about 10-15 minutes to install)
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/faq/attachments
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/faq/data
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/faq/images

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/faq/attachments/
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/faq/data/
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/faq/images/
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/faq/config/

As needed
Install PHP 7.0 modules
You may need some additional packages and PHP modules in order for PHP to work with your applications. You can install the most commonly needed modules with:

apt-get install php-pear php7.0-dev php7.0-zip php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-mysql php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xml libapache2-mod-php7.0

Install phpMyFAQ On CentOS 6.5

Hence phpMyFAQ is web based, we need a working LAMP stack. To setup a LAMP stack, refer the following link.

– Install LAMP Server On CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux 6

Adjust PHP settings

Edit file /etc/php.ini,

# vi /etc/php.ini

Find and adjust the following values. If the lines doesn’t exist, create them.

[...]
register_globals = Off

magic_quotes_gpc = Off

safe_mode = Off

memory_limit = 128M

[...]

Save and close the file.

Install the following php extensions.

# yum install php-common php-mysql php-gd php-xml

Restart apache service.

# service httpd restart

Create Database for phpMyFAQ

Let us create a database called “faqdb” and give full permission to user called “faquser”over the database.

Log in to MySQL using command:

# mysql -u root -p

Create the database and user as shown below.

mysql> create database faqdb DEFAULT CHARACTER SET = 'utf8';
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL ON faqdb.* TO faquser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'centos';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> exit
Bye

Please be mindful that you should create the database with character set value utf8, otherwise you will get an error like “DB Error db no database selected”.

Getting phpMyFAQ

Download the latest version of phpMyFAQ from the project download page.

# wget http://www.phpmyfaq.de/download/phpMyFAQ-2.8.5.zip

Extract the zip file and move the phpmyfaq to your web root folder.

# unzip phpmyfaq-2.8.5.zip 
# mv phpmyfaq/ /var/www/html/faq

Now create the following folders manually and set write permissions to them.

# mkdir /var/www/html/faq/attachments
# mkdir /var/www/html/faq/data
# mkdir /var/www/html/faq/images
# chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/faq/attachments/
# chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/faq/data/
# chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/faq/images/

Also set write permissions to faq/config folder.

# chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/faq/config/

Before working on phpMyFAQ, setup an environment with the following software: 

• Git 

• PHP development 

• PHP 7.2+ 
• PHPUnit 8.x 
• Composer 

• JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS development 

• Node.js v11 

• Docker 

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, database-driven FAQ-system. It supports various databases and PHP 5.2 (or higher). phpMyFAQ also offers a multi-language Content Management-System with a WYSIWYG editor and an Image Manager, flexible multi-user support with user and group based permissions, templates, PDF-support, Facebook and Twitter support, LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory support and an easy to use installation script. 

Since phpMyFAQ is an Open Source project we encourage developers to contribute patches and code for us to include in the main package of phpMyFAQ. However there are a few rules and limitations when doing so and this page list them. 

Contributed code will be licensed under the MPL 2.0 license. 

Copyright notices will be changed to phpMyFAQ Team. But contributors will get credit for their work! 

All third party code will be reviewed, tested and possible modified before being released. 

These basic rules makes it possible for us to earn a living of the phpMyFAQ project but it also ensures that the code remains Open Source and under the MPL 2.0 license. All contributions will be added to the changelog and on the phpMyFAQ website. 

Contributing to phpMyFAQ is quite easy – just fork the project on GitHub, work on your copy and send pull request

-phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ system using PHP.

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ-system. It supports various databases to store all data, PHP 5.3.3 (or higher) is needed in order to access this data. phpMyFAQ also offers a multi-language Content Management-System with a WYSIWYG editor and an Image Manager, flexible multi-user support with user and group based permissions on categories and records, a wiki-like revision feature, a news system, user-tracking, language modules, enhanced automatic content negotiation, templates, extensive XML-support, PDF-support, a backup-system, a dynamic site map, related articles, tagging, RSS feeds, built-in spam protection systems, LDAP support, Twitter and Facebook support and an easy to use installation script.

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