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evoOrigin requirements and installation

Requirements

Requirement Value
Joomla 5.0 or later
PHP 8.1 or later
Database MySQL or MariaDB

The component installer checks the PHP and Joomla versions. If they are not met, it cancels the installation and shows a message.

What the package installs

pkg_evoorigin 1.1.6 installs six extensions:

Extension What it does
com_evoorigin Options, statistics, the visit and lead attribution lists, and manual deletion.
evoorigin system plugin Captures the origin in the session and, if logging is on, writes the visit. Handles the onEvooriginLead event.
evoorigin privacy plugin Exports and deletes the visits linked to an identified user.
evoorigin web services plugin Read-only routes of the Joomla REST API.
evoorigin evomcp plugin Tools for evoMCP. They are only used if evoMCP is installed.
evoorigin task plugin Daily data purge.

Install the package

  1. Download the package ZIP from your account. For the licence and downloads, see Licences and updates.
  2. In the Joomla administrator, go to System → Install → Extensions and upload the ZIP.
  3. In System → Manage → Extensions, check that the component and the five plugins are installed and enabled.

On a first install the package enables the five plugins itself (system, privacy, web services, evomcp and task). On an update it does not touch their state.

What is active after installing

  • Session capture works from the start, on frontend pages.
  • Visit logging and lead attribution are not active. Until you turn them on in the options, evoOrigin writes nothing to its tables.
  • The installation creates three tables with your Joomla prefix: evoorigin_visits, evoorigin_leads and evoorigin_stats.
  • The package creates a scheduled task, "evoOrigin: data purge", which runs every 24 hours. It is created only if no task of that type exists yet; you can change or disable it in System → Scheduled Tasks.

Updating

Updates arrive through the Joomla update system. The package declares its own update server; for the Download ID and the download key, see Licences and updates. After updating, check the options: the ones you already had are kept.

Next step

Continue with first steps.