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4 <title>SO2 Readme</title>
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10 <h1>Special Ops 2 - Setup Docs</h1>
11 <p>File last modified: <var>$Id$</var></p>
15 <p>This project is based on <a href="http://specialops.ath.cx/b/#mBoard">mBoard 0.2</a>, a slow and poorly designed message board written in about 10 hours.</p>
16 <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>
19 <h3>System Requirements</h3>
20 <p>You need PHP 5.1 and MySQL 5 installed. If something doesn't work, you probably need a PHP extension.</p>
23 <p>The DB files are in res/. Setup is the same as GFH except for a few things:</p>
25 <li>No board editor. You'll need a separate tool to add them manually.</li>
26 <li>The admin userlevel doesn't actually give you anything except HTML in posts.</li>
27 <li>The DB password is set in mysql.php. An example file is in res/.</li>
28 <li>You need to create css/default.css manually, either by symlink or by making a new file.</li>
29 <li>If you want to make your account admin anyway or give it invites to start the board with, add rows to the `things` table. Invites need some non-empty text value in the `data` column.</li>
32 <h3>Using the invite system correctly</h3>
33 <p>The default value in the mysql.example file is to only allow invites by default. Invites can only _prevent_ a shitty userbase, they can't _fix_ an already existing one. Keep that in mind when you switch this off.</p>
37 <p>If you can't figure out how to get something working,
38 <a href="http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=236">all tech support questions go here</a>.</p>
39 <p>Also be aware that we will ignore any reported bugs that are a result of broken OSes or incompetent webmasters.</p>
42 <h2>Developers<!-- Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers--></h2>
46 <li>Need a new HTML parser thing (or three)</li>
47 <li>Reduce 2 cookie requirement to 1</li>
48 <li>Fix the "points to next invite" counter</li>
49 <li>Do something useful with the JS thing</li>
53 <p>SVN is at <a href="http://specialops.ath.cx/repos/so2/">http://specialops.ath.cx/repos/so2/</a>.</p>
54 <p>Release tarballs are at <a href="http://specialops.ath.cx/p/">http://specialops.ath.cx/</a>.</p>
55 <p>The code is formatted for tab indents, width 4.</p>
60 <li>Old GFAQs theme by Aquatakat</li>
61 <li>Various ideas from the IRC/board regulars</li>
62 <li>No help whatsoever from Jay because he's a fag</li>
66 <address>© 2004-2006 Ant P. | <a href="xmpp:ant@specialops.ath.cx">Jabber</a> | <a href="irc://specialops.ath.cx">IRC</a></address>
67 <p>License: <a href="COPYING" rel="licence">ZLib</a>.</p>