BambooInvoice Forums

After I get that last screen. It says I can log in using the username and password that I set up - but I never set one up.

The rest of the site appears normal. I’m able to login to the demo account, create clients/invoices, etc. I don’t seem to be able to update any company information. (But I don’t see that on the official bambooinvoice demo either)

I’ve been using Bamboo Invoice for a couple of weeks like this (using the demo account to create my invoices (after I changed the password of course)) and all seems ok. Just thought I’d chime in to see if I could help out a bit.

LOL.  I have to admit Vanjax that you have me confused. 

If you want to change your password, the easiest way to do so is open application/controllers/login.php

Look for the “force_demo_password” function and uncomment it.  Now visit yoursite.com/index.php/login/foce_demo_password/PASSWORD, only replace “PASSWORD” with whatever you want your new password to be.

Well - I did mention in the first post that I was able to get the site working, but felt I had to hack around a bit to get things to work.

One thing I haven’t been able to find is how to update the company info (change name from dark horse consulting, change logo for invoices, etc..)

The part that confused is me that the installation guide pdf states something along the lines of creating a new user/password DURING the installation process - this is the bit that I wasn’t able to produce. It never asked for any email/password. Just white screened followed by that last screenshot when I reloaded the page.

So it made me feel that a) there’s some issue causing it to white screen, and b) I feel that I’ve missed a critical step.

Everything else seems to work great!

Ah gotcha.  Yeah, currently the installer doesn’t ask you for your username/password, it just assumes you’ll type it into the install.php file, which used to be fine, but as the Bamboo audience grows… not so much.  You should be able to change your company info under settings.  If they aren’t sticking… it could be that something is up.

Thanks!
Derek

Ah - well your installation_guide.pdf is rather misleading then. As is the information returned by your install.php. They both ask you to “login using the account you created”. So I was expecting that.

But you’re right - I continue to read the installation guide and I do see where it instructs me to do the steps you mentioned above to change the password - a newbie mistake on my part not reading the entire installation guide.

Although I did get a blank page during the installation (Not sure why) and I believe that threw me for a loop a bit, everything seems to have worked just as it should. I was just confused about exactly what to expect during the install.

Everything appears to be working exactly as it should - sorry for the confusion, it was all on my part really.

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Ok - no more of that - Thanks for a great product - really coming in handy so far.

Hey no problem, and thanks for writing back.  Bamboo is going through growing pains here, and needs a better installer to be sure.  Thanks Vanjax.

How do I set up Bambooinvoice to send emails using sendmail() ?

open up config/email.php.  There are instructions in there.

Also when looking at pdf, instead of logo there is a red x?
I’m able to see my logo everywhere else, print, online view but not when creating a pdf.

any advice?

Search these forums, there are a few threads on that.

Thanks, going back to sandmail() set up,
what parameters do I put for:
$config[’protocol’] = ‘’;
$config[’smtp_host’] = ‘’;
$config[’smtp_user’] = ‘’;
$config[’smtp_pass’] = ‘’;
$config[’smtp_port’] = ‘’;

When most people say they want sendmail, its because someone told them they needed to.  Go back to whoever told you you needed to and ask them “why” and then ask them for these values.

what do you mean?

why do you want to change to sendmail instead of mail?

i’m confused… i don’t have mail server… therefore I thought my only way to sent emails is with sendmail?