The TT Web Site Manager FAQ

This document aims to answer some of the more obvious questions about the TT Web Site Manager.

What is the TT Web Site Manager?
What do I need to run the TT Web Site Manager?
How much coding ability do I need to have to use the TT Web Site Manager?
Why no index.php? Do I have to make a static front page?
I've set it all up but I cant get into the site I created!

What is the TT Web Site Manager?
The TT Web Site Manager docs describe it thus:
The TT Web Site Manager is a general purpose database driven website management system.
A longer explanation goes something like this: The TT Web Site Manager is a piece of software that allows a web site to be built and managed entirely on the fly from dynamic content stored in a database without recourse to static files.

What do I need to run the TT Web Site Manager?
To run the TT Web Site Manager you will need:
(1) A web server capable of running the PHP script engine.
(2) PHP version 4 running on your web server. The TT Web Site Manager has been tested with versions of PHP from 4.0.6 to 4.3.1 and has been designed as far as possible for future compatibility.
(3) A supported SQL data source. The standard distribution of the TT Web Site Manager is shipped with support for MySQL database servers, support for further data sources will be made available as downloads from this site as the code modules for them are written.
(4)A web browser. That's it. Oh, and the browser, web server and data source will have to be able to "see" each other over a network or other connection.

How much coding ability do I need to have to use the TT Web Site Manager?
At the most basic level, assuming you have the tools and ability to set up your installation of the TT Web Site Manager in the first place you can create fully working web sites with just a good knowledge of HTML. However such sites will not be in any way dynamic, though they will be editable through the TT Web Site Manager admin system. If you mean to get the best out of the TT Web Site Manager and use any of the dynamic web site management features then a basic grounding in PHP and SQL will be required.

Why no index.php? Do I have to make a static front page?
The TT Web Site Manager is designed to be used either on its own or complementing an exising web site. Content managers that demand to be the sole point of entry and the only engine for a site can seriously inconvenience a developer with several different content delivery sources. Calling build.php directly will serve your TT Web Site Manager site's default start page so if you require it to be the first page a visitor sees either add build.php to your web server's list of default pages or create an index.php file which include()s build.php.

I've set it all up but I cant get into the site I created!
When you create a new TT Web Site Manager site you must give the user you are logged in as access to that site in the user management screen, as well as ensuring that your login has page manager rights. If neither of these permissions are set then you will just be redirected back to the site management screen when you click on a site's "Edit" button.
For a demonstration of this process please see the Creating a site and giving yourself the rights to use it section of the TT Web Site Manager tutorials.