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<title>Requirements</title>

<para>Here is a list of things you need to have installed before you can install &phpbt;:</para>

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<para>A web server (Apache, IIS, etc.) configured to run PHP scripts.  The PHP version must be later than 4.0.6.</para>
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<para>PEAR::DB.  This is the database abstraction layer that comes with PEAR, which is included with recent distributions of PHP.</para>
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<para>A database server.  &phpbt; has been tested with MySQL, PostgreSQL (&gt;= 7.1 required) and Oracle 8.  If you wish to run this package on another type of database, I am more than willing to support more types of databases if you are willing to help with testing.</para>
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<para>A database created on your database server for use with &phpbt;.  You will need to supply this database name during the installation process.</para>
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<para>Smarty templates (<ulink url="http://smarty.php.net/">http://smarty.php.net/</ulink>).  If you do not have smarty templates already installed, a package of &phpbt; is distributed that has smarty included and ready to go.</para>
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