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Installing SMF Forum Bridge

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Before you begin

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

- Currently the SMF Bridge will only work with PHPmotion V3.5 & SMF Forum v1.1.11
- Your Forum installation must be new i.e. you will need to be installing SMF Forum new with no members/posts etc

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

- Downloaded the most recent version at: http://phpmotion.com/forum/index.php/topic,18612.0.html
- Ordered and received our copy of the license file

General Instructions

Unpacking the Files

Unzip the downloaded file onto your computer. You will now have a folder called V3.5_SMF

You will now have on your local computer

/V3.5_SMF/forum
/V3.5_SMF/install
/V3.5_SMF/upload_in_binary

Installing SMF Forum

The first step is to install the actual SMF Forum software (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/ (version 1.1.11)
Upload the SMF Forum files into a folder in your website named forum
In your web browser, open the example url (http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/install.php)
1. Use the same database information as main PHPmotion site (this can be found in the file /classes/mysql.inc.php)
2. Do not change the default "smf_" database prefix.
3. Select Use UTF-8 as default character set option.

Changing Forum Theme

Once the forum installation is complete, log in to your FTP and do the following

PHPMotion V3.5 Users (using the Default PHPmotion Theme)

The SMF package you received will contain an SMF Forum theme in the folder /V3.5_SMF/forum/Themes
Upload the whole Themes folder to your /forum folder (overwriting the existing one).

PHPMotion V3.5 Users (using a Custom Theme)

Instructions coming soon.........

Completing The installation

Upload SMF Bridge Files

You must now upload the following files into the respective locations in your FTP

Files on your computer	FTP Destination
/V3.5_SMF/install/install_smf_3.5.php	/install_smf_3.5.php
/upload_in_binary/v3_smf_forum.inc.php	/forum/v3_smf_forum.inc.php
smf license file we sent you (license_smf_v3_5.php)	/forum/license_smf_v3_5.php

Run the Bridge Setup File

Open your website to the url : http://www.yoursite.com/install_smf_3.5.php and follow the instructions given.

Once done, delete this file from your FTP

Edit SMF Forum (index.php) file

Download the SMF Forum index file from your FTP /forum/index.php. Edit it as follows

INSTRUCTION: Look for this line
-------------------------------

// Load the settings...
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/Settings.php');


INSTRUCTION: Add just below it the following code
-------------------------------------------------
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// load some extra function for the smf integration
if ( file_exists(dirname(__FILE__) . '/v3_smf_forum.inc.php') ) require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/v3_smf_forum.inc.php');
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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