PHP News

Introduction

PHP News is a simple, but easy to integrate news forum for your website.

License

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.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Requirements

PHP News requires a web server with PHP4 support. It does not require an SQL database, everything is stored in a plain text file. The PHP News script therefore requires read/write access to your web directory.

Installing

Unpack the archive.
Copy the news directory to your web directory. We will assume that this directory is visible on the web through the URL http://www.domain.com/news/.
Go to the URL http://www.domain.com/news/. There, you should see some predefined news entries. The script is installed!

Administration Mode

The script features an administrative mode that allows you to administer your news entries. This mode can be accessed through the admin directory, on the URL http://www.domain.com/news/admin/.

Important: Accesses to the admin directory are denied by default. Please adapt the admin/.htaccess file to your needs. Please consult the documentation of your web server on how to achieve this.

Customizing

In order to customize the appearance of your news, adapt the files inside the theme directory.

You can also customize the news administration, by modifying the files in the admin directory. It is even possible to add and remove fields of your news entries. This is done in the file config.data. Try it, it's very easy.

Thanks for sending us bug reports, enhancements, suggestions etc!

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