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4 <title>SO2 Readme</title>
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10 <h1>Special Ops 2 Documentation</h1>
11 <p>File last modified: <var>$Id$</var></p>
15 <p>SO2 is yet another message board based on the GameFAQs boards. It also borrows a few ideas from Slashdot.</p>
16 <p>The design goal was to make something easy to work with and customise, instead of just another clone of GameFAQs. This never was, and never will be intended as a one-size-fits-all solution like Mediarchive or whiteFyre. Look at all the dead/bloated/exploit-filled/slow/buggy sites based on or modelled after those to see why. And yes I'm singling out OB there.</p>
17 <p>SO2's earned a good reuptation on the GF boards for having clean, readable code, so it's useful to look at if you're learning PHP. In any case it's a better choice than the competition.</p>
20 <h3>System Requirements</h3>
21 <p>You need PHP 5.1 and MySQL 5 installed. If something doesn't work, you probably need a PHP extension. Having a decent OS also helps.</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. Use phpMyAdmin, the table columns are self-descriptive anyway.</li>
27 <li>The admin userlevel doesn't actually give you anything except HTML in posts.</li>
28 <li>The DB password is set in <var class="file">mysql.php</var>. An example file is in <var class="file">res/mysql.example</var>.</li>
29 <li>You need to create <var class="file">css/default.css</var> manually, either by symlink or by making a new file.</li>
30 <li>If you want to make your account admin anyway or give it invites to start the board with, add stuff to the <var class="sql">`things`</var> table. Invites need some value in the <var class="sql">`data`</var> column for authentication; read <var class="file">register.php</var> for more info.</li>
35 <p>If you can't figure out how to get something working, <a href="http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=236">ask WDP first</a>. Being mostly spinoff users themselves, they'll be more than happy to answer any SO2-related questions you may have.</p>
38 <h2>Developers<!-- Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers--></h2>
42 <li>Need a new HTML parser thing (or three)</li>
46 <p>SVN is at specialops.ath.cx/repos/so2/ and is usually the most up-to-date code. If you don't know what this is, don't use it.</p>
47 <p>Release tarballs are at <a href="http://specialops.ath.cx/p/">http://specialops.ath.cx/</a>.</p>
48 <p>The code is formatted for tab indents, width 4.</p>
53 <li>Old GFAQs theme by Aquatakat</li>
54 <li>Various ideas from the IRC/board regulars</li>
55 <li>No help whatsoever from Jay because he's a fag</li>
59 <address>© 2004-2006 Ant P. | <a href="xmpp:ant@specialops.ath.cx">Jabber</a> | <a href="irc://specialops.ath.cx">IRC</a></address>
60 <p>License: <a href="COPYING" rel="licence">BSD</a>.</p>