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).