INSTALLING CUTENEWS

Cutenews is really easy to install. I use WS_FTP, so if you use that too, then you're in luck, you won't have to figure this thing out as much.

First, you have to upload the whole entire folder into your server. When you download it, there should be a folder in the zip called 'Cutenews' already, so just upload all of that (Folder and all).
Next, you have to CHMOD the files. To CHMOD in WS_FTP, you click on the file once, then right click and scroll down the menu that appears. It should be somewhere near the bottom. They want you to CHMOD it to 777, which means, check ALL the boxes. First, click on the folder 'Cutenews' and find index.php.
Click once on the file -> right click the mouse -> scroll down until up find the word "CHMOD" -> Click -> Check ALL the boxes.
Now the 'data' folder, which should be on top with all the other folders, so you have to CHMOD that to 777 too.
Click once on the 'data' folder -> right click the mouse -> scroll down until up find the word "CHMOD" -> Click -> Check ALL the boxes.
Now, click on the 'data' folder and you should see a whole bunch of other files and folders in there too, right?
Click the first folder once -> Hold down the shift key -> Click on the last file that you see (Basically, you're highlighting everything in there)
If you do it right, then all the files and folders should be highlighted, right?
Now you have to CHMOD that to 777, so just right click on one folder/files while it is still highlighted and CHMOD it. It should CHMOD it to 777 for all of it.
Now open up Internet Explorer, Netscape, or whatever that you use and type in this -> http://yoursite.com/cutenews/index.php (Not exactly that because you have to change yoursite.com to whatever your site is.)
Just follow the instructions and make sure that all of the files are green because if it's red, then it means you didn't CHMOD it to 777.
Lastly, add in the code for the news to show.

You're going to have to edit path/to to whatever you site is. In this case (if you named your folder cutenews), the path/to should be cutenews.
Make sure that your page is index.php and not *.html or *.htm...etc or else it won't work.

If you want the page to show a certain number of news, put $number = "#"; between PHP and included.

If you want to show an archive page, use the same code as the one above, but change show_news.php to show_archives.php.

-> Do not do this:

include("http://site.com/cutenews/show_news.php);

BUT instead, change it like this...

include("cutenews/show_news.php);

Everything I wrote here SHOULD be in the README file. If you want to know how to add categories and all that, you show read it. ^_^

Still need help? Go to the forum!

Tutorial is written by Lingling. Do not take this tutorial and put it on your site without my permission.
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