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ezmlm-php 2.0
Nov 13, 2002
http://www.unixpimps.org/software/ezmlm-php

ezmlm-php is a group of files written in php that allow you to fetch messages
from a ezmlm mailing list archive via a web page. It is fully customizable so
it can fit into an existing layout design very well, it is also self contained
so that you can run it with no existing site setup.

The new version has been rewritten from the ground up to exclude all external
dependancies (except one which comes with the source, see makehash later on)
and now implements RFC2045 MIME parsing in pure PHP.
The system is now also object based to allow greater flexibility within the
code itself, it also makes the code much more managable and readable.


INSTALLATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~
*NOTE*
The installation of ezmlm-php now requires access to a compiler to build the
included makehash program. See the MAKEHASH section at the end.

1. Unpack the tarball and copy the files to your webroot in the directory you
   want the list to be accessed from. For example using /home/www/mailinglist

   gzip -d ezmlm-php-2.0.tar.gz
   tar xvf ezmlm-php.2.0.tar
   cd /home/www/mailinglist
   cp ~/ezmlm-php-2.0/*.php .
   cp ~/ezmlm-php-2.0/*.def .

2. Build the included makehash program.

   cd ~/ezmlm-php-2.0
   gzip -d makehash.tar.gz
   tar xvf makehash.tar
   cd makehash
   make

   If you do not have compiler access check the binaries directory in the
   makehash.tar file as there are some common binaries there. If you build
   makehash on a new platform please feel free to submit the binary for
   inclusion.

3. Move the resulting binary to your webroot.

4. Edit ezmlm.php and change the user configurable options. Search for
   USER-CONFIG to find where to edit. See CONFIGURATION below.

5. Access www.yoursite.com/mailinglist to test the installation.


CONFIGURATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This section will explain each variable. If you used the last version most
of these are the exact same.

Name            Meaning
~~~~~~~~~~      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
listdir         This variable should be pointed at the root of the ezmlm
                archive. For instance /usr/home/lists/ragga-jungle

listname        The name of the list (everything before the @)

listdomain      The domain name of the list

tempdir         Where to store the cache files. /var/tmp should be fine
                for most installations. /tmp is another choice.

sendheaders     If set to TRUE then ezmlm will generate the nessesary
                page headers. If set to FALSE your header file needs to
                generate them. See 'includebefore'

sendbody        If set to TRUE then ezmlm will generate the <body></body>
                tags.

sendfooters     If set to TRUE then ezmlm will generate the tage needed
                to finish the document. If set to FALSE your footer file
                needs to generate them. See 'includeafter'

includebefore   This is a file that will be included before ezmlm-php
                generates any output. You can have ezmlm-php generate
                the nessesary headers (sendheaders = TRUE) and still
                include a file of your own. The file is included by the
                include_once function.

includeafter    This is the exact same as includebefore except the file
                is included after ezmlm-php has sent all of it's data.

href            This is a string to prepend to the path whenever an
                <a href= tag is generated. This option was added to fix
                the problem of using a <base href= tag.

prefertype      This is the mime type that you wish to send if the
                current message is a multipart message. If this type isn't
                found it defaults to the first part.
                Some examples are: text/html, text/plain, etc...

showheaders     This is an array of the headers to show. You can add or
                remove any valid RFC822 header you wish to this array.
                Some examples: X-Mailer, Message-ID
                (This is case-insensitive)

msgtemplate     This is a file to use as the message template, if blank
                the internal one is used. See the file MSGTEMPLATE for
                more information as it is to much to describe here.

tablescolours   This is an array of colour hex triplets for use when a
                table is generated. For each row that is generated the
                next colour is used, just use a single element if you
                don't want alternating colours.
                (Yes there is a U in colours, the software was written
                in Canada ;)

thread_subjlen  This is an integer that tells the software how many
                characters to allow the subjects when displayed in
                threads or on the info page. This is useful if you
                want to limit subjects to a certain length so that no
                line wrapping occurs.


MAKEHASH
~~~~~~~~
So what is this little binary you need to build? Simply put it is a small
little C program to generate the nessesary ezmlm-idx hashes for cross
referencing authors. In the last version this was done by recursivley doing
a grep on the /authors directory which isn't very efficient when the list
subscriber base grows above 1000 or so. This program computes the hash by
using the same algorithim the software does and speeds things up a lot.

-FIN-