Help Installing

[jackdelamare]

Hello,

I have a domain - www.delamarepro.com and a forum - www.delamarepro.com/forum. I am running SMF, the latest version and recently found this program to do the news through the forum.

I have been reading the install file and I have uploaded the "forum-news" to my site (www.delamarepro.com/Forum-News).

Anyway, I dont get any of this CHmod stuff and am really lost with the codes etc.

Can someone please help? And maybe set it up for me?

I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank-You,

Jack

[Patrick]

Just visit your admin panel at http://www.delamarepro.com/Forum-News/admin/ . If anything needs its permissions changed, that panel will let you know (in fact, it will not even let you log into the panel until the permissions are fixed).

It looks like you do not have any permissions problems, since the panel is showing a login.

The steps to setup are laid out on the opening page of the admin panel. When you login, it will list the steps that you need to visit, in order, and configure. Each settings page and every setting has a description of what it needs. Some even have additional help links.

The last page you should visit, after configuring everything, is the generate code page. You generate code that you place into a PHP file. A php file can be as simple as a standard html file renamed from, for example, index.html to index.php . You copy the generated code into a php file and visit the php file in your browser; at this point you should see your news.

Next time post this in the CORRECT forum category (the one titled EP-Dev Forum News).

[jackdelamare]

Sorry about posting it wrong... I looked but I was rushed.

Well i went through most of it but it's all hard coding like ChMod and stuff. I will try again.

Please keep this unlocked, I will post if i need more help, thank-you!

[jackdelamare]

Hey,

I really need help on this now.
I need help filling out the codes and all that and basicly what to do. If someone could do it for me?

My forum is www.delamarepro.com/forum and it is SMF, the site is www.delamarepro.com and the address to my Ep-Dev is www.delamarepro.com/Forum-News.

Can someone please help?

Thanks

[Patrick]

What problems are you having?

Most of the setup is straight forward. For the news source page, you will want to use your forum's database name, database username, and database password. All of those items can be found in your forum's configuration file.

Then I already explained the code generation / pasting part.

[jackdelamare]

Yes i put them in from my forum page and stuff but what the hell is the password, would it be the admin login one? Cause i have had trouble with it before, I dont know what it is

[jackdelamare]

Sorry for double posting but I did it and put the code in my page (in the inline frame i have for the news) and it didnt work. It said "Display News Here". It didnt work...

Please help.

Can someone go through it with me through the stages so I can get it 100% right?

[Patrick]

How about you post what you are having problems with (or what you do not understand as far as settings go). As I already stated, the steps to configure the script are outlined on the front welcome page that shows up after logging into the admin section.

Your database name, database username, and database password ARE NOT your forum user (nor do they have anything to do with your forum user). You can find your database name, username, and password inside a configuration PHP file that resides in your forum's folder. I can't give you the name of the configuration file since each forum script is different, but it could be as simple as config.php, Settings.php, or similar.

[jackdelamare]

Hey,

As for the password for my database, where would it be on the SMF forum I have. I know you said those possible file names but how would I get to them.

As for the codes to paste where I want it, would it be ALL the codes on the template page or just the code on the "Generate Code" page?

[Patrick]

You should look at the Settings.php file located in your forum folder. When I say "look at", I mean download via FTP and look at.

Viewing it from your browser accomplishes nothing. You want to view the source of the file, not the html source of its output to a browser.

The primary reason I will not do this for you is that you learn how to do this by doing it yourself. If I were to do it for you, you would not learn. You must learn how to use such scripts. (I charge a fee to install scripts anyway... you certainly do not want that).

[jackdelamare]

I have downloaded the file... got the password and made everything work.

Now I put all the codes together and added them into my page where I want them and all i got was some rubbish like "Display News" "NEWS TITLE!!!" and stuff.

I dont think the sources from my forum are right?

[Patrick]

The only code that you copy into your page is the generated code (from the generate code link in the admin panel).

The templates page dictates what will be output (automatically) by the generate code page (you DO NOT copy the templates to your page).

[Patrick]

I dont think the sources from my forum are right?


Your forum source is correct. Even the test page shows up: http://www.delamarepro.com/Forum-News/test.php

Like I said (in the post directly above this one), you just need to copy the generated code into your page (DO NOT copy the templates... that doesn't do anything).

However, your forum URL is incorrect. It should be http://delamarepro.com/forum/ . Once you correct that, the smilies and comments links on the test page will not be broken.

[jackdelamare]

Ok, the test is working right but it is from the wrong part of the forum, for instance, I want the news to come from my "Site News" board which is the second board on there.

How do I get that right? Here is the info for what i have in what boxes:

News Source Select
Please select the forum you want to edit and click go. The script comes with the ability to combine news from 8 different forums or sites. - News Sorce 1

Change Source Type
The script can fetch news and headlines from multiple types of sources, including both forums and RSS feeds. To change the source type for this particular source, select the source type from the dropdown box and click "Change".

News Source 1 Settings:

Enable Forum
Select if you want to enable this forum. Enabled Disabled

DB Username
The username of the forum's database. - delamare_smf1

DB Password
The password of the forum's database. - ***********

DB Name
The name of the forum's database. - delamare_smf1

DB Host
The host of the forum's database. - localhost

DB Prefix
The prefix of the tables of the forum.
Some popular prefixes are:
(blank) = vBulletin default
phpbb_ = phpBB default
ibf_ = Invision default
bbl_ = WBB default
yabbse_ = YaBB default - smf_

Forum Type
Select the type of forum & version from the drop down list. If your forum version isn't supported, try selecting an earlier version. - Simple Machine's Forum 1

Forum URL
The URL to the forum with trailing slash.
Example: http://www.site.com/forum/ - http://delamarepro.com/forum/

Default Category Ids
The default category/forum ids of this forum that you want to pull posts from to be displayed as news.
Example: 1, 2, 3 - 2

Are the above correct?

Thank-You for this help!

[Patrick]

Ok, the test is working right but it is from the wrong part of the forum, for instance, I want the news to come from my "Site News" board which is the second board on there.

How do I get that right?

Your forum category must be wrong. You have it set to 2. This must be wrong since it is pulling posts from the wrong category. You can find out what your category id for the news portion of your forum by examining the link to that category on your forum (you can see the category ID in the link).

[jackdelamare]

Hello,

I have everything right now, I you check on the www.delamarepro.com/Forum-News/test.php, it is from the right board and I was testing with the HTML like changing where the avator is.

Now, I need to know how to change colours, change the background and stuff, as I cannot see it in the Template Codes.

[Patrick]

Hello,

I have everything right now, I you check on the www.delamarepro.com/Forum-News/test.php, it is from the right board and I was testing with the HTML like changing where the avator is.

Now, I need to know how to change colours, change the background and stuff, as I cannot see it in the Template Codes.


What? The templates page is just the template for a given news post, not an entire webpage. I have already explained this in detail. I will explain it one more time and I am closing this thread as I am sick of it:
1. Configure the script. (You have already done this).
2. Edit templates on template page if you want (optional)
3. Generate code AND past the generated code into a php page where you want the news posts to be displayed. You can transform any standard HTML page into a PHP page by renaming the page from, for example, index.html to index.php .

I am closing this thread. The script is working and I have explained in detail how to fully customize the script and embed it into your page.