LookOut - Webcam Overview Tool - Help
Autor: Wendel, Manuel 
Help
Lookout API
With lookout version 0.5-1 a basic data interface API was implemented - currently it's possible to get the data of all listed webcams as XML, JSON or Atom RSS Feed.
- XML: api.php?type=xml
- JSON: api.php?type=json
- Atom RSS Feed: api.php?type=atom
Since v0.7-1a the API will interpret the newly introduced webcam fetching mode and therefore format the webcam URL's correctly!
Wizard
Pre-Check
PHP Version
lookout is written in PHP and uses all kind of OOP features which are available since PHP 5 - therefore a PHP version equals or greater than 5.0.0 is required and all versions below are not supported.
You can get the latest (or a supported) PHP version > here <.
PHP MySQL Support
In order to use a MySQL server to store data in, your PHP installation should be one with built-in MySQL support.
Normally MySQL support is enabled by default; otherwise (or for a manual PHP installation) see the > PHP installation manual <.
There are some PHP configuration parameters which should set correctly (default values):
mysql.allow_persistent = 1 #http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysql.configuration.php#ini.mysql.allow-persistent mysql.max_persistent = -1 #http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysql.configuration.php#ini.mysql.max-persistent mysql.max-links = -1 #http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysql.configuration.php#ini.mysql.max-links
For further information see > here <.
Write permission
To save the DB connection information entered in step 2 of the wizard, lookout needs writing permissions to it's file lib/inc.db.php.
So you have to change the write permisions, so the apache httpd user could write that file:
On Debian based Systems:
chown www-data.www-data lib/inc.db.php
And on Red Hat based Systems:
chown apache.apache lib/inc.db.php
or you could give it world writeable permission, which is not so secure:
chmod o+w lib/inc.db.php
JavaScript
For a better usability and some client-side actions, javascript support is required and shouldn't be disabled or restricted.
Here the setting for Firefox:
and for Internet Explorer:
For further informations look here
DB-Connection
Attention you need to do this first:
Admin Panel
With the admin panels you can manage all the stuff for the frontend:
- Create new users
- Manage you Webcams