PHPmotion Wiki: Installing Video Embedder Power Tool

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Installing Video Embedder Power Tool

Before you begin

Before you start installing the SMF Forum(tm) Bridge make sure you have done the following

- Ordered and received our copy of the license file
- You have received a copy of the installation files (sent along with your license file)

General Instructions

Before you install the bridge, you need to decide which of these two categories your site falls into:

A site with existing members and videos
A new site with NO members or videos

The setup Instruction that follow are the same for both EXCEPT for one additional step (for a site with members) that is given at the end of these instructions

Unpacking the Files

Unzip the downloaded file onto your computer. You will now have a folder called smf_mod_files

Inside that folder will be 2 further zip files. no_video_members and video_members Delete the one that does not apply to you.

Unzip the remain one from the set above.

Depending on which you have chose, you will now have on your local computer

/smf_mod_files/no_video_members
/smf_mod_files/video_members

Installing SMF Forum

If you already have installed your forum before receiving these files, make sure that the above was done, or this smf integration may not run.

The first step is to install the actual SMF Forum sofwtare (not to be confused with the SMF Bridge which is when you received from PHPmotion)

Download the Forum from SMF website http://download.simplemachines.org/

You MUST install version 1.18 which is what our Bridge has been tested on

Upload the SMF Forum files into a folder in your website names forum

In your web broswer, open the example url (http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/install.php)

Make sure you use the same database as main PHPmotion site
Do not change the default "smf_" database prefix.
Select utf-8 database option.

Forum Settings

Once the forum installation is complete, login to the forum and do the following

PHPMotion V2 Users (using the Default PHPmotion Theme)

From within the SMF site admin, select Themes and Layout and Install a New Theme
The SMF package you received will contain an SMF Forum theme in the folder /smf_mod_files/xyz_video_members/forum/default_theme
Upload this theme to your Forum.
Once done, the page will refresh and you must apply the following settings
1. DO NOT Allow members to select their own themes"
2. DO NOT Allow members to select the Default theme
3. Reset everyone to: SMFmotion.

Note:
If you have purchased a custom smf theme from http://www.phpmotiontemplates.com the same steps above apply, expect you will be installing the theme your own theme

Completing The installation

You must now upload the following files that where provided with the smf bridge into your site. Upload them into the respective locations in your FTP