No-brainer forum with FruitShow

Introduction

FruitShow is PHP-based, basic, no-brainer forum software inspired by the one developped for Joel on software. Its main feature... is the lack of registration so that anyone can contribute without having to register. As of July 2007, it doesn't offer any anti-SPAM or equivalent add-on.

Setup

1. Create a database for FruitShow on your MySQL server
2. Run the SQL commands in docs/Database.sql script in the newly created FruitShow database
3. In _site/, copy Config.default.php to Config.php
4. Edit Config.php:
   
   Settings::setDsn('mysql://root:test@localhost/fruitshow_database');
   
   Settings::setHostName('www.acme.com');
   Settings::setSiteRoot('/forum/');
    
5. Copy all the files from the FruitShow archive into a subdirectory of your web root, eg. /var/www/forum/
6. Aim at http://localhost/forum/login.php as admin/admin, and change the password by clicking on the Profile link in the upper left-hand corner

Post-Setup

The configuration file is located in: /var/www/forum/_lib/Config.php. You can also make changes in header.php.

Troubleshooting

• Still logged on as admin, when I click on Profile, nothing happens
• After logging on as admin and clicking on Edit, filling the and fields, and clicking on OK, they're not updated in the page. When browing table Sidebar, I see several empty rows.
• header.php = utf8 but Content/taglin saved in DB As ISO8859?

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