Documentation for the Admin control panel of Drag & Drop SiteCreator (DDSC).

User Management

Plan Management

You can select multilples plans with different features.

The Default plan is very basic and only offer the basic site builder with no additional application. Its a perfect solution for a very simple to use site builder to create standard web pages with minimum forms and e-commerce capabilities.

To give more features and functionality to your users you can setup custom plans.

Add / Edit Plans

Plan Name Give a name to your new plan

Let user setup FTP parameters This will give access to the FTP parameter setup form. You users will be able setup on their own the FTP connexion parameter to publish their site.

Let user setup Database connection If you offer databases with your hosting, this will give access to the database setup form.

Add or upgrade packages This will give access to the software / update page. Where the users can install applications and upgraded already installed applications.

Authorize Manual Installation of packages This will give access to a package management form that would enable users to install application package that are not part of your’s or our’s repository.

Link to the purchase page This is the URL of the page where users can purchase the hosting plan once the trial is ended.

Link to the support page This is the URL of the page that is displayed in DDSC when users may need some techsupport help (FTP setup, Database connection setup, account diseabled...)

Change Templates Enable users to change templates. This will add on the top right a tab to swap templates.

Auto create database This option will autocreate a database for each users that creates a web site. The databases named will be prefixed with “ddsc_”. Note that for DDSC to be able create databases it needs to have been setup with enough privileges to do so.

Add applications to a plan

Database setup and configuration

A lot of the application available are using PHP and the MySQL database. DDSC offers multiple ways to setup databases for your users.

  • Automaticaly create databases for your users
  • Let your users manualy setup their database connection information
  • Manualy setup the database connection for them.
  • Create a batch/php script to automaticaly setup the database information

Web Site Integration

Add Log in form, sign up forms or just links to login and signup forms from your web site.

You can generate specific links or forms for each of the plans you have setup.

Billing and Registration integration

Integration: Connect Drag Drop Site Creator to your billing system, user registration or custom control panel.

 
ddsc/admincontrolpanel.txt · Last modified: 2006/10/31 07:33 by 71.106.236.22
 
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