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10 <h1>Special Ops 2 - Docs</h1>
11 <p>File last modified: <var>$Id$</var></p>
15 <p>This project is based on mBoard, a GameFAQs spinoff I started writing one day to try out SQLite. I had it working in 7 hours and got bored with it. Then people started using it and it ran too slow.</p>
16 <p>The code in mBoard and SO1 was a huge mess. So I rewrote it almost completely from scratch.</p>
17 <p>SO2 is the best free software spinoff board. If you disagree with this, show me a better one and I will outdo it.</p>
20 <p>You need PHP 5.1 and MySQL 5 installed. If something doesn't work, you probably need a PHP extension.</p>
21 <p>Also due to a limitation in the mental capacity of Microsoft developers, some files will not work on Windows. I have no intention or motivation to fix this.</p>
24 <p>The DB files are in res/. Setup is the same as GFH except for a few things:</p>
26 <li>No board editor. You'll need a separate tool to add them manually.</li>
27 <li>The admin userlevel doesn't actually do anything, see above.</li>
28 <li>The DB password is in mysql.php. An example file is in res/.</li>
29 <li>You need to create css/default.css manually.</li>
34 <li>Deleting a user deletes any topics they've posted in, not just made (probably a foreign key problem)</li>
35 <li>The PCRE HTML parser sucks immensely (fixing)</li>
39 <p>The latest version of the source is in a Subversion repository at <a href="//specialops.ath.cx/repos/so2/">http://specialops.ath.cx/repos/so2/</a>. A lot of the time this won't work properly.</p>
40 <p>The code is formatted for tab indents, width 4.</p>
41 <p>Bug reports can be sent to one of the contact addresses on the SO site or posted on the boards.</p>
45 <li>Old GFAQs theme by <a href="//aquatakat.com/">Aquatakat</a></li>
46 <li>Various ideas from the IRC regulars</li>
50 <address>© 2004-2005 <a href="xmpp:ant@specialops.ath.cx">Ant P.</a></address>
51 <p>License: <a href="COPYING" rel="licence">ZLib</a>.</p>