[TOC:Address Book]

Introduction

My wife has maintained a mail merge document for printing off address label when we send Christmas cards to friends and family. I thought a web application which can export the data directly to CSV for use in gLabels would be better.

Although I could have written the above application, my wife is impatient. So I used DaDaBik to get the job done very quickly. The database schema is a little odd since it more or less a direct conversion of the address list data source my wife create ;-)

Create Address Book Database

First setup a new database to store the address book in.

• Schema to follow...

Install DaDaBik

 cd 
 wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dadabik/dadabik_4.2.zip
 unzip dadabik_4.2.zip
 cd dadabik_4.2/program_files 
 cp -Rv * /home/virtual/abook/public_html
 cd /home/virtual/abook/public_html
 chown -Rv www-data:www-data *
 chmod 777 uploads

Configure DaDaBIX

 nano /include/config.php 

with a text editor and edit it (specify at least $dbms_type, $host, $db_name, $user, $pass, $site_url, $site_path)

 $dbms_type = 'mysql';
 $host = 'localhost';
 $db_name = 'xxx';
 $user = 'xxx';
 $pass = 'xxx';
 $site_url = 'http://abook.example.org/';
 $site_path = '/';
 $upload_directory ='/home/virtual/abook/public_html/uploads/';
 $display_is_similar = 1;
 $date_format = 'latin';
 $end_year = 2020;

Goto the following URL...

• http://abook.example.org/install.php

...and click on the Click on this button to install DaDaBIK button.

• http://abook.example.org/

Modify Header and Footers

Simply edit includes/header.php and includes/footer.php in order to create a look and feel for the HTML pages.

References

• http://www.dadabik.org
• http://www.dadabik.org/index.php?function=show_documentation

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