Travel Agent Software (TAS) is pleased to announce the release of the World Wide Travel Guide (WWTG) demo.

The demo contains a complete copy of all the original source files used in the full version of the WWTG templates but contains a pared down list of countries (24 total). Likewise, the package of resource files such as img's and pdf's has been limited to only those pertinent to the demo countries. This light version of the full product can be downloaded in a short time, requiring much less bandwidth.

The available counties in the demo are:
North and Central America
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Canada
The Caribbean
- Bahamas
- Cuba
- Puerto Rico
South America and the Antarctic
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chilé
Europe
- Andorra
- Belgium
- Switzerland
Africa
- Kenya
- Madagascar
- Sudan
The Middle East
- Israel, The West Bank and Gaza
- Jordan
- Syria
Asia
- Azerbaijan
- Russian Federation
- Viet Nam
Australia and Oceana
- Fiji
- New Zealand
- Samoa

You can download the demo from our servers at:
http://travelagentsoftware.com/wwtg/archive/wwtg-v1_default-blue-silver-v1_en-ca-v1_demo.tar.gz (19 MB)

NOTE: Though this release does otherwise contains a complete copy of the templates used in the paid for version of the full WWTG templates product you are not permitted to use the demo templates in a live production website. You may only use the demo templates for the purposes of service testing, product evaluation and code examination. If you purchase the full version of the WWTG templates you will need to download a different file which will contain a complete copy of all the resources needed to view all 237 countries which is considerably larger (265 MB).


Setting Up
The WWTG is a template distributed, load balanced, XML parser system. This means that socket calls to the WWTG servers in Vancouver must come from templates on the clients’ server structured using XML syntax and URL encode for safe transport. Data is returned the same way and stored in a local database as a cached query for later use to help increase response times and reduce system overhead.

Requirements to run copies of the templates provided by TAS:
  1. A subscription to the WWTG. (In the case of the demo templates simply update this entry in your _config.php file. $wwtg_cfg["subscriptionId"] = "en-ca-v1_demo";)
  2. A Linux or Windows server running PHP.
  3. A MySQL or MSSQL database to cache responses from the WWTG servers. (Cached responses, which you can set in your config, remain on your server for a default of 15 minutes.)
  4. A copy of the demo templates provided by TAS to get you started. (Note: The templates currently take up approximately 19 MB of disk space uncompressed. We recommend using wget from the command line on your server; it will take way less time to download. There are other themes available, just ask us about it and we will be happy to direct you to a sample site for consideration.)

Setup:
  1. Normally the WWTG servers must know what the IP address of XML requests from your location will be in order to run properly but the demo version does not need this information so we will skip the first setup requirement in this case.
  2. Setup your database to cache responses from the WWTG servers. More information including a cut and paste SQL call for use in phpMyAdmin can be found in the "_config.php" file which you will download in step 3.
  3. Download the demo templates from our servers to the directory you wish to extract them too, we suggest you use the document root of your website. What will appear there is one .php file and one directory called wwtg which will contain everything else.
  4. Extract the compressed files on your server like so: tar -xzf wwtg-v1_default-blue-silver-v1_en-ca-v1_demo.tar.gz. NOTE: If you plan on downloading the tar.gz file to your Windows box first, decompressing them and then uploading them to your server be aware of Winzip. Though Winzip appears to open the compressed files properly we have experienced a number of problems with there decompression engine. It doesn't seem to understand how to expand tar files properly. We recommend you try using either 7-zip from http://www.7-zip.org/ or Winrar from http://www.rarlab.com/ instead.
  5. Update and configure the "wwtg.php" file with the correct directory structure info and to suite the look and feel you want to appear around the WWTG or borrow the PHP code and reuse it in some other file.
  6. Update the "_config.php" file to reflect the correct information.
  7. Call the "wwtg.php" file or the reused PHP code in some other file via browser and enjoy.