SubjectsPlus is a a LAMP/WAMP application that allows you to manage a number of interrelated parts of a library website:
- Research Guides (i.e., subject, course, etc.)
- Database A-Z List
- Staff List
- FAQs
- Suggestion Box
- Videos (i.e., produced in-library)
It was originally developed at the Ithaca College Library, and primary development is now taking place at the University of Miami Libraries. It is made available under the GNU GPL.
- PHP >= to 5.3 - 5.6
- MySQL >= 4 - 5.6
- Web server -- usually Apache, but some people have SubjectsPlus running on IIS
- JavaScript enabled for the admin to work properly.
If you run into any missing/weird functionality, check that the following extensions are enabled for PHP:
- cURL
- MySQL
- mbstring (not necessary, but you'll need to tweak header.php without this)
- simplexml (for reading RSS feeds)
- json (some data is stored as json)
- gettext (only if you need internationalization, aka translations)
- gd (image resizing--notably for headshots and generation of video thumbnails)
If you have MySQL 5.7 you must disable ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY permanently. Please refer to this stack overflow issue.
Visit the wiki for installation instructions.