SmooCruise

Ooops! You're right! It was TCH Dick! My bad! I have been up late 3 nights now trying to get this up and running....not thinking clearly! Sorry Dick! But I think you're all great and so helpful!

TCH Bruce fixed that problem for me Andy. Forums were running great....until I broke them.

Thanks so much guys.. Really do appreciate your response....

Post to gurus from TCH: Bruce, Andy, Dick, Thomas or whoever else has time to help this dumb blonde: I am so sorry guys....you're not going to believe this...but our message board is barely 24 hours old and I've already broke a part of it. Here is what I was trying to do. I was trying to replace the vBulletin logo with our own logo. I was researching last night and read that all I had to do was upload our logo into the forums/images folder and then replace the vbulletin logo .gif with ours. So I looked at the source to figure out where the coding for it was. It looked to me like it was in search.php. So I went into there. Which brings up problem #2. Which I have had off and on on the other 2 sites that I manage here at TCH. How come sometimes when I hit edit I get this little thin box where you can only see one line of code at a time? Sometimes I can hit reload and it will open up the whole page and I can work. Anyways......I got that little box that would only let me see one line of code at a time. I hit reload a couple of times and still couldn't get it to go away. So then I just started scrolling trying to find the line with the pic of vBulletin logo so I could replace it. I got frustrated with the one line thing, plus I had to get ready for work so I just saved changes and went out. But I didn't make any changes. From there I went back to the forums as a user. And now when you try and hit "view new posts" you get that syntax error about line 246. Same one I was getting Bruce, before and you went in and fixed it. So here are my questions: 1. How come sometimes I get that thin little box when I'm trying to edit? 2. If I didn't make any changes in the bulletin coding other than upload a pic into the forums/images folder how did I break it? Does just going in and looking at those .php files mess them up? 3. Where DO I go to change out the vBulletin logo for ours. Eventually I want to add a whole new style. And I've printed out instructions on how to do that. But for now I just want our logo there. 4. And can someone either go in and fix what I broke or tell me how to fix it? I need to get this fixed before the owners of the site make me walk a plank! The site is located at: cruiseshiptalk.com/forums Thanks guys!!!

OMG!!! sooo....I've been obsessing over getting this going. Pouring over manuals, help sections, etc. I figured out that my editing was done to the LEFT of the = sign instead of the right. I was SO excited!!! I went and changed it all. Saved it. Then tried to run the installer script again. Now I'm getting a NEW error code: Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/********/public_html/forums/includes/config.php on line 249 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/********/public_html/forums/includes/config.php on line 249 I am SOOOO frustrated. Why does this have to be so hard??

It says that Bruce!! Where do I go from here to get this fixed? Is there someway someone can go in and look at my files and see if they can see what's wrong? Or is that not a free service??? Guide me o wise one! Pretty please??

Gotta go to work now.... I'll check back here tonight....this thing is driving me nuts!!!

Bruce....I HAVE all that in there. And I still get the same error message.... I don't know what to try next....

thanks for the edit Bruce. Guess that wasn' t too smart of me.... I blame it on being up too late last night and up too early this morning and working on something I don't know that much about! *LOL*

I had created my database before I did anything else. At least I got that part right! This is my database name: *****_cruiseshiptalk This is my user name: *****_Smoo I "think" this is the area where I have something wrong in my config file: ****** MASTER DATABASE SERVER NAME AND PORT ****** // This is the hostname or IP address and port of the database server. // If you are unsure of what to put here, leave the default values. $config['MasterServer']['******_cruiseshiptalk'] = 'localhost'; $config['MasterServer']['port'] = 3306; What should go where it says "*****_cruiseshiptalk" Thanks guys so much for your help!!!

oh....and the other question was this. While preparing my files for upload I came across these instructions: # tools.php - This file must be uploaded to the admincp folder and allows you to perform certain tasks should your board go down or you accidentally lock yourself out of the Admin Control Panel. This file must be deleted immediately after use or it will cause a SEVERE security problem. The file they are talking about is in the "do not upload" file. So I upload it to the folder it stated and then delete it from my harddrive???

okay all my new techie friends.....HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The owners decided on vBulletin. It's been downloaded, configured and uploaded. I'm following the manual for vBulletin and got as far as Running the vBulletin Install Script Entered the customer number, it was accepted. Then went to the next step and this is the message I got: Step 2) Connect to the database Attempting to attach to database Error description: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'nobody'@'localhost' (using password: NO) /home/jqcvjrjv/public_html/forums/includes/class_core.php on line 274 The database has failed to connect because you do not have permission to connect to the server. Please confirm the values entered in the 'includes/config.php' file. What am I doing wrong????? Please help me. I've been working on this for 4 hours and am FRUSTRATED!!! this is the address I'm trying to install the forums at if it helps: http://www.cruiseshiptalk.com/forums/ any ideas???

WOW!!! You guys are sure friendly and helpful! I'm impressed!

Thanks Bruce. Something tells me you're going to be seeing a lot more of me soon! *LOL* I'm the only one in the cruise group with any savvy about website design, etc. And I know just enough to get me in trouble! The leaders of our cruising group want our own message board though, so I guess I'll be muddling through this. With you TCH gurus' help! One of the TA's is in the process of buying space here today for it. Then we'll make the final decision as to which message board to go with. Then the fun begins! I do have one question....out of curiosity...if TCH offers SMF free, then why are you using an Invision board? Just curious...

Thanks Andy! My new best friend... I will be taking you up on that I'm sure!