Setup
This page will guide you through the setup process of installing Mimesis on your website's server.
What you will need:
- The most current source release of Mimesis.
- A zip utility.
Once you've downloaded the Mimesis source, you will need to upload all of its contents to your server (retaining the structure of the directories within it). Following is the structure of the unzipped package and how it should reside within your local computer (directories are italicized):
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mimesis
- _cache
- array_filter_multi.php
- dirContents.php
- file_place_contents.php
- file_retrieve_contents.php
- Mimesis.php
- Mutex.php
- Polarizer.php
- singularID.php
These files will need to be uploaded to your site via FTP or webserver's control panel.
Finally, the permissions for _cache and mimesis folders, along with all the Mimesis source files should be changed to 777 or rwxrwxrwx.
Your PHP scripts should be located at the same directory level as the mimesis folder. Avoid naming a table created by Mimesis as mimesis, as this is the directory that contains the source code. Furthermore, avoid using the mimesis directory as a location to contain any of your tables.
All of your scripts will now be ready to work with Mimesis by including one line of code into them:
require_once('mimesis/Mimesis.php');