Alpine CSIDE
CSIDE (pronounced "Seaside") is an
Intergrated Development Environment for the Alpine Center Stage
Content Management system.
Mission
The CSIDE mission: To help Center Stage developers, designers, and testers build great dynamic web sites.
CSIDE allows multiple project development, quick session test case switching, quick master design switching, and local server environment testing.
Longer term, CSIDE might serve a useful purpose in defining how freelance designers and developers might build and ship their designs, plugins, and whole projects to project sponsors.
Current Release state is *Alpha*. The system is being used
internally by Alpine staff and "Early Adopter" enterprise
developers.
1. CSIDE requires the xampp for Windows platform. Install XAMPP. Make
sure you install Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Pear. CSIDE does not
require the Mail or FTP server.
2. Confirm XAMPP is installed. Switch XAMPP to php4 (for now,
all Alpine devlopment is done with php4.
3. Install
imagemagick for Windows.
3. If you make changes to the MySQL root name or password,
make sure to update the setting in cside.ini to reflect the new root
id and password.
[db]
user=root
4. Download
the CSIDE setup program
(alpine_v1_0_20060907163413_cside_setup.exe). Run it.
5. Read README.TXT. Follow directions to set up the local http
server that points to the CSIDE installation.
6. Bookmark your CSIDE home!
CSIDE is unprotected source. If you make changes, please
submit them back to Alpine for review and inclusion in the
source package. Alpine is working on building an Open Source
project workspace for CSIDE.
FAQ
1. If system appears to "lose it's mind", edit cside.ini. Add
the DB user designation back in. For some reason it is being
lost and rewritten without this value.
