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S8Forum v2.3.1 
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ԭ: Kelli Shaver  E-Mail: s8forum@kellishaver.com
Website: http://www.kellishaver.com/downloads/s8forum_v2-3_1.zip
Release Date: 10 November, 2001

ߣ  E-mail: zjyfc@263.net
  ҳhttp://www.ajiang.net
ʱ䣺20011113
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CopyrightȨ:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  	
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or	    	
(at your option) any later version.  However, please leave the original
"authored by" statement in tact -- feel free to add to it, though and take
credit for your modifications.

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S8Forum Ҫ֧PHP4ķУsessionȨҪ򿪡
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:

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   򿪣˵áĿã

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     $ForumTitle   ̳֣ ̳
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     $AdminEmail   Աĵʼ

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5. װ˻ɣԷˡ

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   ļ theme.php õĹԱעˡעԺ FTP  users
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   ֻһУڵд "admin"УڵдȫСд
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             ˵µİ汾ӲͨFTPùԱĴ롣

˵дɣԭӢ readme1st.txt̳÷Ϊ
̳һĿȻҾû롣

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˵еԵ֣ҵҳǺܴ:)
غ http://www.ajiang.net
ʼ zjyfc@263.net  zjyfc@371.net
OICQ 2315516   ICQ 137608002
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S8Forum v2.3.1
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Author: Kelli Shaver
E-Mail: s8forum@kellishaver.com
Website: http://www.kellishaver.com/downloads/s8forum_v2-3_1.zip
Release Date: 10 November, 2001
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Copyright:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  	
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or	    	
(at your option) any later version.  However, please leave the original
"authored by" statement in tact -- feel free to add to it, though and take
credit for your modifications.
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System Requirements:

S8Forum requires that PHP4 be installed on your system and that session
support be enabled.  For ease of use, it is _highly_ reccommended that PHP
not be running in Safe Mode.

S8Forum works fine on *nix and Windows systems provided the above criteria is
met alike (Imagine that, something working in Windows).
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Upgrading:

If you're upgrading from any earlier 2.* version, all you need to do is
upload all of the files.  Then, open up your admin user files in a text
editor and move the "admin" down ot the SIXTH line. the user bio should then
go below that, so you're basically just inserting a blank line on line 5.

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Installing:

Create a directory called "forum" in your root web directory and upload all
of the files included into it. Be sure to leave the directory structure in
tact.

If it is necessary for you to CHMOD php files in order to execute them on your
server, then do so.  Also, CHMOD the ~/data directory and the ~/users directory
and the ~/sigs directory to 777.  Don't put anything in these directories; this
is where the forum stores the post data and registered user andn signature info.

Open the "theme.php" file inside of the ~/settings directory and make changes
to it as instructed/desired. -- Be sure to get the "$postdir" path and the 
"$userdir" and "$sigdir" paths correct or nothing will work.

Delete the "delete_me" files from the ~/data, ~/sigs and ~/users directories.

If you wish to create a custom set of smilies, they can be found in the
~/settings/smilies.

To give yourself admin permissions, go to the forum and register a username.
Now, go to the ~/users directory and download your user file.  Open it in
your favourite text editor, and on the SIXTH LINE write the word "admin"
(without the quotes, of course) and that word ONLY!

Upload the file over top of the old one. You may have to delete the old one
first, because of file permissions. If so, be sure to CHMOD the new one back
to 777.

The next time you log in to the forum, you should see "(Forum Admin)" next
to your username below the footer. If you do, then you did it right and
you now have admin access.

I'll add a function to do this upgrade via a web based form later, but for
now, at least it lets you have more than one admin on the board.

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Using S8Forum:

Usage of S8Forum is really very self-explanatory and no different from any
other forum out there. 

New to recent versions are admin functions for editing and deleting posts,
as well as the ability for registered users to edit their own posts, guest
posting (enabled/disabled via themes.php), and a customizable user profile
that you can edit by going to the now working(!) preferences link in the
footer, as well as support for custom signatures and personal photos.

Some other changes of note for those of you who are upgrading: the [IMG]
tag syntax has changed (and it works now) so be sure to check the forum
codes page for more info on that. Also, URL's are not parsed automatically
and there is no loger a [URL][/URL] set.

S8Forum no longer uses cookies to store any user data.  This may change in
the future, so users won't have to log in each time they visit.

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Mini-ChangeLog:

If you don't want to read the whole thing, here's what's changed since
version 2.0.

- Fixed the $usrdir/$userdir bug in register.php

- Added support for personal photos

- Fixed the bug that wasn't allowing logged in users to post
  when guest posting was turned off.

- Fixed the bug that wasn't displaying the "Logged in as..."
  in the right color.

- Fixed some form and table issues with Netscape.

- Replaced text links for New Topic, Forum Index, & Add Reply
  with images.

- Password fields in add topic/reply pages are now *'d out.

- After you post a new topic/reply you are automatically redirected
  to the index page.

- After editing a post, you are now automatically redirected to the
  edited post.

- Add/Reply error pages now link back to the form using history.go(-1)
  to retain form data.

- The topic index is now split up - 50 topics/page.

- Added support for custom signatures.

- Fixed the add topic and reply pages so that users now have to
  enter a password if they want to use a regustered name when
  guest posting is on and they're not logged in.

- Fixed the bug in editing posts that wasn't putting smilies
  back like they were supposed to be in the form field.	

- Cleaned out some leftovers that had been causing some problems for
  a few people, which I had inadvertantly forgot to remove after testing.

- Fixed a big bug that allowed unregistered users access to edit/delete
  posts (Eeew!).

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Note to all you PHP gurus:

Yes, I know that the code isn't the most efficient right now. You don't have
to tell me. ;)  I'll clean it up a lot for the next release... if I have time.

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Known Bugs:

There are some parsing bugs in the editor right now, especially when it comes
to dealing with URL's and image tags. It's really nothing that you can't
easily clean up when you're editing the posts.  I know it's a bit annoying, my
apologies. I'll fix it when I have time.
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Thanks:

Thanks to Bryan (bclark@bclark.yi.org) for your 2am assistance with the thread
sorting and helping me work the knots out of the reply tracking and user
authentication, and other stuff.

Thanks to Josh Catone (catone4@home.com) for his ideas, input and bug tracking.

Also, thanks to Lyon (www.lyonart.f2s.com) for his suggestions with the routines
for the smilies and other stuff, and to ph3wl (ph3wl@ntlworld.com) for pointing
out bugs and security loopholes, and Dennis Bollyn for much the same thing.