Frequently Asked Questions

How do I import my Internet Explorer favorites?

From within explorer, export your favorites as HTML (File->Import and Export). This file can be imported into Brim as Netscape HTML/Bookmarks file

How do I import my outlook contacts?

You can export each contact as a vCard, but this will result in lots of vCards that need to be seperately imported into Brim. You can also you the following tool: Outpod. Outpod is a program to do bulk exports of contact and calendar information from Microsoft Outlook to files according to the vCard and vCalendar standard (vCalendar format is not yet supported by Brim).

How do I edit/delete a folder?

Simply click on the folder icon in front of the folder name. This will take you to the modification screen in which you will also find the option to delete a folder.

How do I use the QuickMark functionality and what about the installation path?

The QuickMark is a special bookmark. You need to add this link to the bookmarks in your browser. The next time you visit a page you want to bookmark in Brim (and not your browser), you click on the QuickMark bookmark in your browser and the link will be added to Brim. For this, the QuickMark functionality needs to know the installation path (something like: http://www.yourhost.com/brim). The administrator of the application can set this path via the application configuration.

Customizing

How do I remove unwanted plugins?

For Brim 1.0.0 and Brim 1.0.1

Edit the file 'framework/configuration/plugins.php' and remove the unwanted entries
Remove the Controllers for the specific plugins from the application root
Remove the plugin directories from the 'plugins' subdirectory

For Brim 1.0.2 and higher

Simply remove the directory from the plugin directory

How do I remove unnecessary/unwanted templates from the application?

For Brim 1.0.0 and Brim 1.0.1

Edit the file 'framework/configuration/templates.php' and remove the unwanted templates from the list. This will make sure that no-one can select that template

For all versions of Brim:

Change your admin template settings to the desired template
Make sure that no user has this template in his preferences. If someone does, change the db entry to one of the templates you would like to keep (if you skip this step, the user will see a blank screen after login)i
Edit the default template in the signupAction (file: 'signupAction.php'). Make sure that it points to an existing template
Edit the 'brim.php' file and make sure that the icons are loaded from an existing template (there are two references to existing templates, change them both!)i
Remove the directories in the 'template' subdirectory (except for the sidebar!)

How do I install brim in an existing database, used by another application?

Question:

My web server only allows once Mysql database; I am this database using for wordpress (a blog program)

I am wondering how to intall Brim without upsetting the part of Mysql which Wordpress uses. In wordpress, a $table_prefix has been specified as a database prefix - the prefix is wp_. The purpose of this is to allow multiple wordpress configurations.

Answer:

You can safely install brim next to any other program using the same database. Brim uses a fixed table prefix (brim_) so it does not clash with other table names. You can only install one version of brim per database though....

Trouble shooting

I get the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect()

This means that you do not have the mysql extension compiled. Install the php-mysql extenstion or recompile php with this option enabled.

The GMail plugin doesn't show up

This means that you do not have the php libcurl extenstion installed. For more information, look here: http://curl.haxx.se/ and here: http://www.php.net/curl

The Password plugin doesn't show up

This means that you do not have the php libmcrypt extenstion installed.

The DepotTracker and Collections plugin don't show up

Install the following php-extensions: GD-library (available at http://www.boutell.com/gd/)

I get an error indicating the some files are not found

Do you get an error message similar to the following?

	Warning: main(framework/Controller.php): 
		failed to open stream: No such file or directory in 
		/home/brim/public_html/brim/framework/DashboardController.php 
		on line 3

	Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'framework/Controller.php' 
		(include_path='/usr/share/php') 
		in /home/brim/public_html/brim/framework/DashboardController.php 
		on line 3

This means that your include path is incorrect. Your include path MUST contain the current directory, so you need to edit your php.ini file and add the current directory ('.') to your include path. For instance:

		include_path = "/usr/share/php"

Should become

		include_path = ".:/usr/share/php"

Remember to restart the http server after applying the changes!

I want to modify some files on my webserver, but I have no permissions when using ftp/telnet! WHat is happening?

If you use the unpack utility provided with the brim installation, you upload the brim-xxx.tar.gz file and the unpack.php file. Afterwards, you tell the webserver (by using the unpack utility) i to unpack all files. At this moment, the webserver becomes the owner of those files and you are no longer allowed to modify any of those files anymore. The workaround is that you unpack all files locally and upload them (via ftp) individually.

I cannot unzip the file brimfull-xxx.zip!

You are probably using WinRAR as unzip utility? This application does not unzip correctly. Try WinZip instead.

My Web hosting provider is free.fr (or Online). I get plenty of error messages "Warning session_start(): open(/var/www/free.fr/***/sessions/". What should I do?

With FREE and Online, sessions operate in a particular way: you must create a directory named "sessions" at the root level of your site. Sessions will be directly stored in this directory.
(Answer from phpMyVisites)