Have you ever heard of DataLife Engine (DLE) content management system? You surely have if you have encountered the so-called warez portals at least once. These portals distribute free of illegally cracked paid software, movies and music. Most of such portals are based on this very CMS.
What is DataLife Engine?
According to the definition provided on the official website DataLife Engile content management system (in abbreviated form – DLE) is a multiuser news content management system intended for organization of own mass-media and blogs on the Internet. As well as other popular CMS DLE is written in PHP and uses MySQL as DBMS. DLE CMS has powerful system of news publication, adjustment and editing, is not resource demanding and permits easy work with highly visited projects.
How to start work with DataLife Engine?
To start development of DLE-based websites first of all you have to purchase it because it is a paid CMS. Free versions of DataLife Engine are illegal and their use can harm the future site and its owners.
You should unpack the files from the disc with the purchased system. If your site is already placed on the hosting you should unpack the archive with DLE straight to the site folder on the server. DLE requirements to the web hosting or local hosting are the following: PHP version 5 or higher, sufficient traffic volume (for instance, 200 MB) and disc space no less than 20 MB.
If your site is on the local computer so far you will have to install and customize software (a local server, e.g. Apache) first – otherwise you will not be able to work with DLE. You have to create a database for DLE using MySQL administration panel. You should give the user of MySQL all permissions for work with this database. The next step is to assign permissions to certain directories: Templates, Uploads, Engine/Cache, Engine/Data and all subdirectories. You should assign recording right CHMOD 777 to all these directories and subdirectories and CHMOD 666 to the files from these directories and subdirectories.
To launch the installation program of DLE you should launch your Internet browser and enter “install.php” into the address bar after your domain name. Then you have to follow the instructions of the installation program and enter the name of database user and his password which have been assigned during the creation of MySQL database. After the installation you should delete the file install.php and the folder “upgrade” from the installation directory otherwise it will initiate installation of DLE every time you or someone else will run your site.
If you want to get access to site management on DLE you should enter the path “http://sitename/admin.php” into the address bar of your browser. In this way you will get to the administration panel.
What opportunities for website development does DLE CMS provide?
DLE content management system provides visitors of your site with the following opportunities:
- registration on the site;
- adding comments;
- editing and deleting users' own comments;
- adding news by the visitors;
- moderation of news;
- statistics for each user (including rating and profile);
- uploading photo in the user profile;
- forgotten password recovery;
- news editing right on the site.
DLE content management system provides wide range of opportunities for the site administrators as well. With the help of DLE administrators can add, edit or delete news on their site, manage user accounts, create unlimited user groups and assign them different access rights. Administrators can also edit time and date of publication, disable calendar, archives and registration of users. Work with images is also very convenient in DLE: you can overlay water marks on the images and upload images for separate news. Database optimization, repair, backup and recovery can be performed directly from the script.
Technical facilities of DataLife Engine CMS are astounding. DLE has powerful security system, loads the database to a minimum degree (up to 5 requests), uses advanced Ajax technology, supports news output, automatic word filter in the comments, categories and subcategories, review of unread news from the moment of last visit to the site and many other facilities.
These facilities do not comprise the whole list of all useful features of DataLafe Enfine. Installation and use of DLE CMS for website development do not require deep knowledge of programming languages because the developers of this system tried to facilitate the task of creating a full-grown, functional website for common Internet users.
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