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Installation
Steps
Please first
read the license and if you agree then you can upload the
contents of the upload folder into your desired location.
To install the
forum please use install.php in the uploads directory,
you will need to chmod config.php to 777 or on some configurations 755.
1) Please make sure you read
the licence and agree to it before installing.
2) Upload all the contents of
the upload folder in the desired location
3) When all files are uploaded,
chmod the config.php file to 777
4) Run the install.php file from
the main directory.
eg, if you installed to www.mysite.com/forum,
the installer would be located at
www.mysite.com/forum/install.php
5) Fill in the required information
the installer asks for and click to proceed.
6) Installation Complete!
NOTE:
To provide security, it is advised at this point to remove the install.php
file, keeping the install file could enable someone to do damage to your
board.
Manual Install
If you have no problems with install.php, ignore this section.
If you have problems installing
you can manually configure the forum installation.
Please use the the SQL file provided with this package located in the
docs folder, use this file in phpmyadmin and then edit the config table
to match your site path and site url to the script.
You will need to put this in
the config file(replace with correct values):
database_connect('localhost', 'user', 'pass', 'database');
Modules
VUBB has a fully modular system meaning that all files forum.php,
viewforum.php, viewtopic.php are all modules. This makes it easy to mod
as the pages are not hard-coded into the system.
Links: Adding new module | Changing
defualt module
To add a new module open index.php and find;
// Modules
$modules = array(
'forum' => 'forum',
'viewforum' => 'viewforum',
'viewtopic' => 'viewtopic',
'register' => 'register',
'login' => 'login',
'usercp' => 'usercp',
'newtopic' => 'newtopic',
'newreply' => 'newreply',
'newpoll' => 'newpoll',
'editpost' => 'editpost',
'viewprofile' => 'viewprofile',
'members' => 'members'
);
Simply add another module in like so;
// Modules
$modules = array(
'newmdoule' => 'newmodule',
'forum' => 'forum',
'viewforum' => 'viewforum',
'viewtopic' => 'viewtopic',
'register' => 'register',
'login' => 'login',
'usercp' => 'usercp',
'newtopic' => 'newtopic',
'newreply' => 'newreply',
'newpoll' => 'newpoll',
'editpost' => 'editpost',
'viewprofile' => 'viewprofile',
'members' => 'members'
);
Changing the defualt module, to do this find;
// Set defualt module if none set
if (!isset($_GET['act']))
{
$act = 'forum';
}
Change 'forum'; to the name of the module you want to show when the forum
is first loaded up. For example;
// Set defualt module if none set
if (!isset($_GET['act']))
{
$act = 'members';
}
Templates
The templates for VUBB are in php for a very good reason, instead
of messing around with a new templating syntax i can actually work php
and html together which also makes for faster loading and enables me to
include advanced options easily.
With a tiny bit of php knowledge you will be able to easily edit the templates.
For example if you wanted to add another space after each category you
would edit the forum.php template and find this;
// end cat table
function end_cat_table()
{
echo '
<tr><td width="100%" colspan="5" class="cat_block">&nbsp;</td></tr>
</table>
<br />';
}
You would add another <br /> to the end of it so it would look like
this;
// end cat table
function end_cat_table()
{
echo '
<tr><td width="100%" colspan="5" class="cat_block">&nbsp;</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<br />';
}
It is that simple! PHP templates does not make it hard to template! Each
template name is relative to the module name and in each template are
the different sections that module uses (usually inside functions).
The PSD files for the images of the core template will be supplied for
download in a later version.
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