Institute Of technology carlow /
Technical Manual /
Match Tracker Mobile Application /
Laura O’Callaghan Conlon /
4/28/2014 /
This document contains step by step installation for the Match Tracker application. The document also includes technical usage information and any important issues arising . /

Contents

1.Introduction

1.1.What is needed?

1.2.What is included?

2.Installation

2.1.Installing Xampp

2.2.Xampp Control Panel

2.3.Installing Application Code

2.4.Xampp Control Panel – Again

2.5.phpMyAdmin

2.6.Match Tracker

Bibliography

  1. Introduction
  2. What is needed?

Currently Match Tracker is not yet hosted on a live server as the hosting options have not yet been decided on, this is a decision that will be made in conjunction with Leinster Branch in the near future. Therefore, in order to run the application a local host must be installed on any given machine which will allow the application to run locally. Xampp[i] has been chosen as the default service to use in this case. Xampp is a web server solution that works across many platforms. Contained within the Xampp package is an Apache HTTP Server, interpreters for PHP and Pearl scripts and a MySQL database. Also included in the package is phpMyAdmin which is a very useful admin console for MySQL databases.

1.2. What is included?

Included in the installation USB is a folder containing all the application code needed to run and display the working application. Also included is an Xampp installation file which will install the server and MySQL service and also provide a control panel for both. Finally the database structure has been included as an sql file, this database also contains sample data to demonstrate the application immediately.

  1. Installation
  2. Installing Xampp
  3. Open installation USB and locate file entitled xampp-win32-1.8.3-3-VC11-installer.exe
  4. Double click on this file to start installation
  5. Follow installation instructions on screen and use default settings.
  6. Once installation has completed, open the Xampp program to display the Control Panel
  7. Xampp Control Panel
  8. In the Xampp Control Panel, click on the Start button next to the Apache module
  9. Click on the Start button next to the MySQL module
  10. Installing Application Code
  11. Navigate to the xampp folder which is located wherever was chosen at the initial stages of installation. The default location for this file is C:\xampp.
  12. In this folder you will find a folder entitled htdocs.
  13. From the installation USB, copy the match-tracker folder into this htdocs folder.
  14. Xampp Control Panel – Again
  15. Click on the Admin button next to the MySQL module
  16. This will open phpMyAdmin in a web browser window
  17. phpMyAdmin
  18. In phpMyAdmin home page select to create a New database from the left sidebar

2.5.2.On the next screen, enter match_tracker_db as the name of the new database you are creating and clickCreate

2.5.3.In the left side bar select the newly created database called match_tracker_db. Then select the Import tab from the top menu bar.

2.5.4.In this screen you will be asked to choose a file to import your database tables from. Click on the Choose File button to open a file explorer window to allow you to navigate to the location where you have previously saved the match_tracker_db.sql file from the installation USB. Press the Go button to import the tables.

2.6.Match Tracker

2.6.1.Open a new web browser window and navigate to localhost/match-tracker. This will bring you to the home page of the Match Tracker application. From here you can navigate through the system using the various features to create and edit players, teams and fixtures as well as tracking and reviewing previously tracked matches.

Bibliography

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[i]Xampp (2014). Xampp. Available: [accessed 12 November, 2013]