Honestly, the directions were fine. I kind of glossed over the relevent section because it wasn't labeled as an actual step, and it started with "Before you install you should . . . ." and I assumed
that it was the standard "Before you install you should make a copy of your database . . . ." so I didn't really read it. {*shame on me!*}
As a tip to anyone looking at this to install, it's really not as difficult as I expected. It only took me about an hour (not counting looking over and over for my mistake
). I used Beyond Compare (version 2.0) and I think that is what was so helpful.
If you are using Beyond Compare (and I strongly recommend you do!) here's how I did it and I think it worked quite well:
1. Start Beyond Compare with the downloaded hack folder in the left side. You can leave it zipped if you want, since Beyond Compare can view zipped files.
Have your UBB.threads files in the right hand side. I use my live files via ftp, but only because I install to a test board first. You probably shouldn't install to live (on your server) files if you are installing to your main site board.
2. I know I probably shouldn't, but I started with steps 2 and 3 because they are the only files being changed that aren't in the admin folder. I made the changes to config.inc.php and ubbt.inc.php.
3. Next I right clicked on the "admin" file in the left hand side of Beyond Compare and chose "Set as Base Folder". This makes only the files in the admin folder visible.
4. At the top of BC I have it set to show "All files" since I'm not really comparing any files.
5. Remember to go back and do step 1 now (we skipped it earlier). It's the mod to the menu file.
6. Start where we left off, which is step 4. Now the steps should be in order with the admin files. You're basically making changes to almost all of the "do...." files (doeditforum, doeditconfig, etc.)
7. Right click on the instruction file in the left hand side and choose "compare to" and then in the right hand side choose the file from step 4 (dbdocommand.php). The compare window opens those two files. Read the instructions for the changes on the left hand side and make the changes to the right hand side. Save the changes, close the compare window.
8. (This is the part that I thought was most helpful.) You should be back in the main window of BC now, with all the admin files on the right hand side. Right click on the file you just changed (dbdocommand.php) and choose "Exclude". This will hide the file from your view. That let me know I had finished with that file. It made a world of difference to me because I wasn't so paranoid about losing my place in the instructions and not knowing where to start again.
9. Make sure you finish by creating the adminlog.log file and uploading it and chmod'ing it to 666. Also upload the showlog.php file into the admin folder.
Thanks again Gardener, it's a great hack and a VERY useful one.
