We just pushed some updates to the development branch on github that enable BigTree to be installed on Apache, MySQL, PHP, in Windows. The WAMP setup used is the 32-bit install from http://www.wampserver.com/en/ running on Windows 7.

There are a few settings in WAMP that need to be modified for the install to go smoothly.

1. In php.ini, turn-on short open tags, and set upload_max_filesize to 8M or higher.

2. In httpd.conf, make sure AllowOverrides is set to All.

3. Restart all services to ensure your changes are working.

Those changes should have WAMP configured properly for BigTree.

Here are the BigTree functions most frequently used when creating templates.
Generic
Items in this list can be included in your template files by placing them inside php echo tags:
Page Resources

Page resources are pieces of content created in BigTree. Any page resource can be included in your tamplates by appending a dolar-symbol $ to the beginning of the resource id.
For example:

$page

Displays attributes from the current page. For example, $page["title"] would display the page title, as set in BigTree's "page properties" screen. Some frequently-used attributes include:

• id

• title

• meta_keywords

• meta_description

$www_root

Your site's URL.
$cms->
The BigTreeCMS class does most of the heavy-lifting for the front-end of your site. To access BigTreeCMS in your templates, use $cms-> before the function.
getLink()

Gets the full URL when given a page id (which can be found in the BigTree admin).
will give the full URL to page 2.
getSetting() and getSettings()

$cms->getSetting() to get the content of a single setting. For example, if you stored a contact email address as a setting, you might access it with $cms->getSetting("contact_email").
If you need to access multiple settings in a single template, use $cms->getSettings(), like this:$settings = $cms->getSettings(array(
    "contact_email",
    "contact_phone"
));

Use these settings in your template:

getNavByParent()

Use $cms->getNavByParent() to create your site's nav menus. See the Navigation documentation for more information.

BigTree::
The BigTree class contains many functions useful throughout the front and back of your BigTree site. To access this class in your templates, use BigTree:: folowed by the name of the function.
trimLength()

Control the length of content with BigTree::trimLength(). The function is smart enough not to count html tags against the length of your content.
For example: BigTree::trimLength($string, 150)

would trim the value of $string to 150 characters, appending an ellipsis to the end of the output.
prefixFile()

When you use BigTree to create prefixed crops or thumbnails of an image, you'll need BigTree::prefixFile() to access the resulting images. Pass in the file name or URL, and the desired prefix:
For example, to get prefix_image.png from http://example.com/images/image.png as $file:BigTree::prefixFile($file, "prefix_")

BigTreeModule->
Use the BigTreeModule to help work with your site's database. All modules you create will inherit from this class. So if you have a class BTXNews, access BigTreeModule functions by first instantiating BTXNews
$newsMod = new BTXNews; then using $newsMod-> followed by the function name.
getAll()

Get all entries from the given module. $newsMod->getAll() would give all entries from our news module.
getAllPositioned()

Get all module items ordered based on their position.
getApproved()

Get all approved module entries.
getFeatured()

Get all module entries that have been marked as featured.
getUpcoming()

Get all module entries with a date attribute greater than the current date.

Caching
BigTree provides the ability to combine, minify, and cache frequently-requested js and css assets.Setup of caching is handled in the templates/config.php file. The cache is controlled on a per-output-file basis. For example, to combine normalize.css, functions.css, and widget.css into site.css, you would set the following in config.php:

$config["css"]["files"]["site"] = array(
    "normalize.css",
    "functions.css",
    "widget.css"
);
The first parameter passed to $config tells BigTree what type of files you're caching, and to look in the appropriate directory. The second says we're outputting a file, and the third parameter specifies the filename, without the file extension. Inside the array, simply list the files you wish to combine, in the same order they should be included. The cached file can be included in your site by linking to site.css in your css directory.

LESS
To include a LESS css file, just include it in the array, with the extension .less.

$config["css"]["files"]["site"] = array(
    "styles.less"
);
BigTree determines when to update the cache files based on the source files' file-time attribute, only re-writing the cache if a source file has been modified.

Variables
Since caching is handled through PHP, an added benefit of this feature is that BigTree can evaluate php variables within the source documents. By default all cached Javascript files will have www_root replaced by the url of your website root.

Additional variables can also be evaluated in the cached files. To assign colors globally, for example, an array of colors could be created:

$config["css"]["vars"] = array(
    "colorBlack  => "000000",
    "colorWhite"  => "FFFFFF"       
);
To access them in your javascript, set the javascript vars as well.

$config["js"]["vars"] = $config["css"]["vars"];
And accessed in the CSS as JS as:

// CSS:
.black  { color: #$colorBlack; }

// jQuery
$.("#element").css( "color" , $colorWhite );
Minification
Setting $config["js"]["minify"] or $config["css"]["minify"] to true will minify the concatenated files before they are saved.