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Requirements
Before installing Kalkun, your system must meet all the following requirements.
- A computer
- A phone/modem supported by Gammu. See tested phone on Gammu phone database.
Kalkun should work on any operating system (OS), as long as the OS can run all required software below (like Apache HTTP Server, PHP, a database engine (MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite3), gammu-smsd, etc).
Known working OSs: Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, SLAX, etc), and macOS.
Because Kalkun is web based, you need a HTTP server to run it. Any web server will work as long as it supports PHP.
Known working web servers: Apache httpd, Lighttpd, NGINX, and IIS.
Kalkun is built with PHP, so you need to install both:
- php for your HTTP server,
- php-cli (command line interface) for the "daemon" to work.
You also need these PHP extenions enabled: (only those that are used only by plugins are optional if you don't install the plugin)
| PHP Extension | CI3 | Kalkun 'Core' | Kalkun Plugins |
|---|---|---|---|
| ctype - Character type checking | X | ||
| curl - Client URL Library | X | X | |
| hash - HASH Message Digest Framework | X | sms_to_twitter, sms_to_xmpp | |
| intl - Internationalization | X | X | |
| json - JavaScript Object Notation | X | X | |
| ldap | phonebook_ldap | ||
| mbstring - Multibyte String | (X) | X | |
| session - Session Handling | X | X | |
| mysqli or pgsql or sqlite3 - Database extension | X | X | X |
Kalkun will check all PHP requirements (except php-cli) when you go through the installation screens.
Currently supported DB Engines:
- MySQL version 5.5.3 or higher (for full UTF-8 support)
- SQLite3
- PostgreSQL version 8.x or higher
HINTS: If you don't have any of these (web server, PHP & database), you can install a bundle like XAMPP instead.
Composer (Dependency Manager for PHP). This will allow to get the third-party PHP libraries Kalkun depends on.
Gammu-smsd is the SMS engine that retrieves/delivers your messages.
Kalkun uses the database that is set up by gammu-smsd. Additionnaly it updates the database schema to build a complete SMS management system.
On the client side, you need a modern web browser that supports javascript/AJAX and with cookies enabled.