[QUOTE=antman, Jan 2 2005, 04:10 PM] Hi Chris What a lovely project, and thank you for making it open source smile.gif [b]Are you planning to have it run on MS Operating systems in the near future?[/b] ant[/QUOTE] - C!D SE should run on MS OS without too much trouble. As a matter of fact, it runs on my Home XP setup. You need to use one of the all-in-one PHP packages that can be downloaded for free from various places: phpdev, wamp, etc. Upon installation of a package, you should have a working Apache with PHP and MySQL. Or you can use another web server if you wish to. [u]Please note[/u]: It seems that Windows-based PHP distributions do not come with the Pear library. You will need to download Pear::DB.

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Thanks, Chris - I have PhpDev on my system, and it runs IPB perfectly - now to track down (and learn) a bit of Pear :bangin

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:blink Wow - I've downloaded the pear manual and Pear DB, but it seems that it is really written for Nix environments. I've had many problems with running IPB on standalone PHP, Apache and MySql before, and so tossed it for an 'all-in-one' solution (viz PhpDev or PhpTriad). Installing Pear looks like it will mess with my ini and cnf files :blink So I think I'll wait for PhpDev5 to be released (if ever :biggrin )

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In fact, you can download just the Pear::DB package and unpack it in the correct directory. I just don't remember which one that is...

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Dang!! But I'm close now :biggrin I spent 4 hours this afternoon trying to get it to work. I installed PhpDev5 and managed to get go-pear to finally install. All went well, and I can see the whole structure of go-pear in the browser, and many of the functions such as the Config Manager work just fine. But when I launch the pear Index.php I keep getting " Unexpected T_string on line 33" I've tried every single thing I know to fix it, but to no avail :bored. I think it's time to call it a day - hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to sort it out and finally run your software on my PC :biggrin

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Hi Chris, It looks like I'm way out of my depth here :( Today I started with a freshly installed Win2K and installed PhpDev5 on it. Everything worked just fine. I then followed your link to the Pear::DB, downloaded it and unpacked it to c:\phpdev5\php\includes A total of 59 files were unpacked. I restarted the PC to make sure that the changes were recognized. I then created a directory called c:\phpdev5\www\chris and unpacked your forums0.3.2 to it. I then fired-up phpdev5 and checked that Apache and MySql were running. But now I'm lost as how to proceed :( When I surf to the Chris folder it shows a file called forums0.3.2.2 being present, but the attributes of the file show it to be a TYPE 2 file, and clicking on it simply brings up the Windows Dialog box asking me what application I would like to open it with. I appreciate how busy you are at the moment, and will fully understand if you are too busy to offer any help at the moment :) Has anybody else managed to get the software running under a Windows environment on their home PCs? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, ant :)

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Well, not one to give up so easily, I've tracked down a programme called XAMPP. It comes standard with the 3 main components and pear::db and Pearl - now I've just got to figure out what to do with it :bye

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LOL. Yes, there's WAMP too. A lot of packages out there... Wow! I just found out that the Sourceforge 3.2 archive is somewhat messed up. That has nothing to do with your setup. Just extract the only file found in the archive; you should now have a new file called 'forums0.3.2'; just rename it 'forums0.3.2.tar' and unpack it too.

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I been trying to tell you, a few things is messed up in the download, lol.. do you think you could fix it then reupload it? And then tell us so I can download the fixed 3.2 anyways antman, I tried to do ipb with phpdev, but it always just went to either one of the pages that shows up because of spyware alot of times, or it said page cannot be displayed, :/

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Wow. You may want to give a try to [u]Spybot Search and Destroy[/u]: [url]http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html[/url]

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I have that and I use that, but it seems to still not find all the sources of it. and i have this process called reg33.exe that I have to end everytime I restart etc.. aswell as dumbprep.exe or they use so much cpu that it stays at 100% and shuts my pc off. Aswell as I cant change my homepage and it sets it at fountainofyouth.com now, but before it was setting itself to greatsearch.biz

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Actually, reg33 is a trojan, a variation of CoolWebSearch. I believe that getting rid of it is as simple as killing the process, then deleting reg33.exe from your HD and rebooting. dumprep.exe must be running to log reg33's crashes. dumprep is a Windows XP legit program.

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I cant find it in my harddrive though, any idea where it might be? I keep just deleting it from the processes, which is like a temp fix to the problem. but even then I get spyware, but hey atleast my cpu is not overloading, and shuting the pc off, if I delete those processes.

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Thanks for the tip about changing the file name, Chris - I can now see all the source files :biggrin Sadly though I'm still having problems. The XAMPP user interface is absolutely terrible, and it is quite difficult to move around the package. So I've gone back to PhpDev :biggrin I've made sure that the required Pear::DB was unpacked in the Includes directory, and all seems well. When I run the index.php of the forum software, the first error I get is that it can't find Config.php. I noticed that there is a file called Config-dist.php, and so copied it to Config.php - that sorted that problem out. The next error is that it can't find Pear.php - I then installed go-pear, added the Includes_path to php.ini and restarted the system - this problem is now sorted out. Running Index.php again now throws up the error, --------------------------------------------------- Error type: E_WARNING Message: Failed opening 'DB/{db_engine}.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\phpdev5\php\includes;C:\phpdev5\php\class;c:\phpdev5\www\pear/PEAR') Location: C:\phpdev5\php\includes\DB.php (line: 373) ---------------------------------------------------- Line 373 of DB.php does indeed try to call 'DB/{db_engine}.php, and this is where I'm now stuck. I've been reading as much as I can about Pear::DB and have checked loads of forums to do with all things Pear and PHP, but I can't seem to find any solutions. The only thing I read that may shed some light on this, is that I might have to edit Httpd.conf and add the Includes_path as well. I tried this, but it seems that this file does not understand the Includes_path command. Running any other of your forum php files just tells me I'm trying to hack the site :cool Am I doing something worng by running the Index first? Is there something else I should be running first? Or do you think that my Windows is just not seeing Pear correctly? Any help would be greatly appreciated :biggrin ant :)

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Well, The first file you're supposed to run is [b]install.php[/b]

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