PrinterStat

Hosted by HOTUP

This is the official PrinterStat web site. It contains basic information about using it. Hopefully you will find what you need here.

Download

Download the latest version of PrinterStat:
TGZ file (version 0.3)

What is it good for?

PrinterStat is an alternative for JASmine's front-end. It has some advantages over JASmine's front-end:
1. It supports themes.
2. It's easy to translate to your own language.
3. It's a bit simpler to setup and to use.

There are also some disadvantages:
1. It lacks support for authentication.
2. Some more I can't recall right now, but #1 is a huge disadvantage if you need it.

History

I created this piece of software basically because I needed to translate it to Portuguese and because I needed to change its look and feel to fit my company's visual identity.
It's written in PHP (as is JASmine), and is, in many aspects, very similar in code and functionality to JASmine. Well, that's one of the nice things about free software, isn't it.
If you open the code, you'll easily recognise the similarities I'm talking about. But IMHO its code is easier to understand and also more organised.

Thanks to Naycos, who wrote JASmine.

How to use it

1. Install JASmine and get it to work. Plenty of documentation available at the site.
2. Untar the file in your web-server's document-root directory.
3. Open file config.inc and change the values to fit your needs. The DB_CONFIG array should match your MySQL's JASmine database setup.
4. You're done.

If you want to translate it to your own language, look in the i18n directory. Copy the en.inc file to a new file and do the translations. The name of the file should match the LANGUAGE variable in the config.inc file, except for the extension, which should not appear in the variable.
If you want to create your own theme (the default theme kinda sucks, actually), take a look in the themes directory. Create a new directory inside it for you theme and put all your files inside it. You'll have to follow the structure defined in the default theme. For your theme to be used by PrinterStat, change the THEME variable inside the config.inc file. And that's it, pretty much.

Contact information

Please let me know if you have any issues with PrinterStat. And in case you have translated it to your language, please send me the translated file so I can include it in the tarball. I'll give you all the credit!

Btw, all this stuff is free software!

Udo Penner - udop [at] hotup [dot] com [dot] br


Since November 2008