Basic install guide

This guide assumes you have a database and whatever set up already. If you don't know the basics of how to install a forum, you're probably looking at the wrong software. This guide focuses on eBoard2 quirks.

I may or may not have forgotten some details, if you encounter something not discussed here, please contact me (K4sum1).

To install eBoard2 in its current state, you need to create an avatars and a minipics folder in the img directory. You also should delete the plugins folder in the root directory as that is currently very broken.

If you want the template settings, rename settings_template.php to settings.php. You can ignore this part as it's not really needed, but it may help getting the board up and running quicker.

Once the board is installed, here's a few things to note.

If you want to use your own custom logo, put it in the default theme folder as either logo.png or logo.gif. If you use .png you won't need to worry about it being overwritten in a later update, but a .gif is more compatible with older browsers.

Setting the time format in administrator settings is a bit buggy. Also you need to change the time format in your user settings if you change the global settings to see the time format you want.

If you don't use the forum template in the installer, to make a trash forum, add [trash] to the beginning of the forum description.

If you make an announcements forum, you should run the below SQL query to make it where mods/admins are the only ones that can post threads there.

UPDATE forums set minpowerthread=1 WHERE id=(Announcements forum ID number);

If you also want mods/admins to be the only ones to reply to threads, run this SQL query as well.

UPDATE forums set minpowerreply=1 WHERE id=(Announcements forum ID number);