Article Site Builder Setup Instructions:

Unzip the file you downloaded that contains Article Site Builder

 

-    Create a new SQL database and upload the database.sql script into your MySQL server to create the necessary tables

 

 

- Modify the config.php by opening it in Notepad or any .php editor

 

Change the following variables:


$USER_VAR['SQL_HOST']="localhost";
$USER_VAR['SQL_USER']="YourDBUser";
$USER_VAR['SQL_PASS']="YourDBPass";
$USER_VAR['SQL_DB']="YourDB";

 

- Upload the entire asb folder to your web server in the same sturcture it is currently in.

 

- Modify permissions on the /output directory inside the asb main folder to 777 (full privileges).

    note: If you wish you may change the name of the output folder to anything you wish and you may also create an unlimited number of output folders all with different names to build pages into for the future, as every time you run Article Site Builder you will need to create a new folder to build pages in.  Just be sure to set all of these created folders permissions to 777

Article Site Builder User Instructions:

 

To use ASB, direct your browser to the index.php page in the asb folder.  example: http://yourdomain.com/asb/index.php


You will be prompted to select the following:

Create a directory on your site for the article pages. You must create this directory yourself and assign it full read/write privileges. (777)  You can name this folder anything you wish however the default setup with the program is "output"

Select the number of articles to retrieve from each of the article site services there will be one separate page created for every article you choose to retrieve.

Select the number of links to allow per index page.

Select the maximum length for the links on your index pages.

Article Page Template Selection

Enter *Either a fully qualified URL, or paste HTML for a template file for the scripts to use to generate individual article pages.

example: http://www.yourdomain.com/asb/article_template.html


urls to templates will be saved for later use so you can also select these from the drop down box.

 

Index Page Template Selection

Enter *Either a fully qualified URL, or paste HTML for a template file for the scripts to use to generate individual article pages.

example: http://www.yourdomain.com/asb/index_template.html


urls to templates will be saved for later use so you can also select these from the drop down box.

 

Select your article categories selection from the two provide article directory sites. Make your category selection

Click Submit to build your article pages

Possible Error Notice

After building your pages you will be given a link to the completed pages-

At the top of this page if you see an error such as

Warning: touch(): Unable to create file output/Making_the_Faith/Hop.html because No such file or directory in /home/domain/public_html/asb/file_sys.php on line 73
The file output/Making_the_Faith/Hop.html is not writablecant save file:Making_the_Faith/Hop.html.
Warning: touch(): Unable to create file output/Dating/Relationships.html because No such file or directory in /home/domain/public_html/asb/file_sys.php on line 73
The file output/Dating/Relationships.html is not writablecant save file:Dating/Relationships.html.

This means that these particular articles were no longer available from the article sites. your pages have still been built so this is not a problem!  So ignore it and get ready to build some more pages!


**IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT TEMPLATE FILES**
Your HTML should contain the following tags or you will get blank pages!

In your Article HTML :

%%%Title%%% will be replaced with the title of the article

%%%Author%%% will be replaced with the author of the article

%%%Article%%% will be replaced by the article text

%%%Resource_Box%%% will be replaced by the copyright

 

In your Index HTML :

%%%Links%%% will be replaced with the index lists.

You can create custom templates that match your main website, to ad Google Adsense ads, or any other content you wish. The templates included are just plain white pages.

 

ASB retrieves the most recent articles from the categories selected and creates indexed pages in the specified directory you have created and set permissions to 777.

These pages can be moved in a group to another folder on your server. Or to a different domain name with your FTP software.

Make sure you clear them out before creating pages on another topic! Index's are overwritten on every new run unless you create the next run of pages in a new output file.

It is suggested that you create new folders with permissions set to 777 to create new article site in.

After Your Article Site Builder Pages Are Built!

Be sure to place a link to the main index page of your new Article Site Builder page from any other web page you know to be listed in a search engine that you own. 

The next time the search engine crawls that site it will jump to your new Article Site Builder pages and index them as well!

If you do not have another site listed in a search engine to link to your new Article Site Builder pages try a software like Submit Wolf and you will be search engine ranked in no time flat!