
    AxisPHP -- A Library of Useful PHP Objects and Routines
    Copyright 1999-2001 Axis Data
    For more information see http://www.axisdata.com/AxisPHP/
 
 
    ----- PURPOSE
 
    As the title above indicates, AxisPHP is intended to be a collection
    of objects and subroutines that may be useful in building applications
    with PHP.  Pretty much everything in it was originally written for a
    specific project and most of it is now in daily use in production code.
 
    The portion of the library of interest to most people will be the
    objects for the generation of PostScript and PDF documents, as they
    can be run on a standard PHP server (unlike the PDFlib extension,
    which must be compiled into PHP).
 
    Also of interest may be the User and Session objects, which provide
    relatively seamless support for handling user accounts and maintaining
    the state of variables between page loads, respectively.
 
 
    ----- INSTALLATION
 
    Since this is just a library of PHP objects, installation consists of
    copying the appropriate PHP files into the same directory as the PHP
    files that will use them.
 
    For the User and Session objects you will need to have a MySQL database
    available and set up the appropriate tables in that database.  The
    commands to set up the tables will look something like the following:
 
        mysql -u USER -pPASS DBNAME < Axis--Session--CreateTables.sql
        mysql -u USER -pPASS DBNAME < Axis--User--CreateTables.sql
 
    where "USER" and "PASS" are the user name and password of a MySQL
    account with CREATE privileges, and "DBNAME" is the name of the database
    that should be used to store session and user information.
 
    The Session tables (and object) are required to use the User object.
 
 
    ----- CONTACT INFORMATION
 
    Like most software available under the GPL, AxisPHP is unsupported, but
    comments and bug reports are still welcome.  The primary contact e-mail
    address is "axisphp@axisdata.com".


