We have been using an Access2000 system for writing invoices and that works fine for a single office installation. But, we are contemplating having one or more employees working from remote locations some of the time. It would seem that this system would be robust enough to handle that and allow the invoice to be printed at the remote locations. YES? For that matter, if the system is installed on a webserver, folks from across the country should be able to access the system and record their work. (Easy to say but I have NO IDEA of how to make that happen... any suggestions?)
The other question is what is required to run simpleinvocies on a Windows machine? At least I would like to set it up on the network at each office for in-house operations. Confession: I am a complete rookie when it comes to MySQL, PHP, Apache, etc except that I just discovered a great package that combines all of them together and runs well on WindowXP.
i agree that if you havent used mysql,php etc. before it can be a bit of trouble getting Simple Invoices working
the easiest way to get MySQL etc all on one windows PC is to install WAMP5 ( http://www.wampserver.com/en ) - once this is installed next steps are: -- unzip the Simple Invoices .zip and copy into the WAMP document root - normally somwhere like c\wamp\www -- then create the Simple Invoices database in phpmyadmin --- open your browser and go to http://localhost/ and you should see an link to your phpmyadmin install --- in phpmyadmin create the database --- then go to the Import or SQL tab (depending on the version of phpmyadmin) and click the browse button ---- browser to the unzipped Simple Invoices and find the SimpleInvoices.sql file - select that and click Run or Execute or whatever phpmyadmin says :) -- once this is done open the config/config.php file in your Simple Invoices folder and make sure the database name is the same as the open you just created - the open your browser to http://localhost/simpleinvoices and it should be all good :)
Much to my surprise, I was able to get all the way to the last step successfully. I got phpMyAdmin to create the database and imported SimpleInvocies into it. I can wander about through the tables and everything looks great. I modified the config/config.php file to identify the name (simpleinvoice). But when I try to open the system (http://localhost/simpleinvoice or http://127.0.0.1/simpleinvoice) I get a 404 error message that the object was not found.
Justin, i saw in a previous post you were thinking about hosting, any more info on that? i may be able to send you some business...
cliff
I was originally planning on offering hosting from my account on servage.net (which simpleinvoices.org is hosted) but in the last few months the performance of their servers is getting worse so am thinking twice about that - just looking for a new host vps or otherwise
