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tribbyBoard is released under the GPL version 2 license.

Installation:

Open boardtemplate.html, messagetemplate.html and posttemplate.html with a text editor and modify them as you please to customize the board. See the guide below for help with customizing.
Open index.php with a text editor and make the following changes to lines 3 thru 8:
- change Message Board to the title of your message board
- change database_name to the name of the mysql database you will be using for the table of message board data.
- change localhost to the IP address or hostname of your mysql server. This will most likely be localhost, so you probably won't need to change this.
- change mysql_username to your mysql username.
- change mysql_password to your mysql password.
- change 40 to the number of threads that you want to have displayed on each page. This way the board won't become one gigantic page that will take forever to download on slow internet connections.
Create a folder called board or whatever on your webserver.
Upload index.php, boardtemplate.html, messagetemplate.html, posttemplate.html and faq.html into the folder.
Create a MySQL table in the database which you specified in step 3 using the board.sql schema. Depending on your webhost, this can be accomplished varying ways.
Thats it! You can now use your message board by accessing the index.php file. Note that since the message board starts out with no messages, the index.php file may start out looking fairly blank (depending on how much you modified the boardtemplate.html file).

Customizing

Customizing tribbyBoard is as easy as writing HTML! There are three files which you need to modify in order to customize the board -- boardtemplate.html, messagetemplate.html, and posttemplate.html. boardtemplate.html is the template for the main board, messagetemplate.html is the template for the appearence of the messages themselves, and posttemplate.html is the template for the message which appears after a user has posted to the board.

Instructions for modifying boardtemplate.html:

Put  into the file wherever you want the message board name to appear.
Put  into the file wherever you want the actual message threads to appear.
Thats it! You can modify the template in any way that you like, but make sure that the form for posting messages keeps the same <input> tags.

Instructions for modifying messagetemplate.html:

Put  into the file wherever you want the message board name to appear.
Put  into the file wherever you want the subject of the message to appear.
Put  into the file wherever you want the name of the person who wrote the message to appear.
Put  into the file wherever you want the email address of the author to appear.
Put  into the file wherever you want the date the message was posted to appear.
Put  into the file wherever you want the message itself to appear.
Put  into the file wherever you want the thread tree to appear.
Put  into the file wherever you want the quoted message to appear (this should be kept inside of the <textarea> tags in the reply form).
 and  need to stay where they are.
 is for linking back to the board from the message. You should probably leave it where it is.
Thats it! Like with the other template, the <input> tags of the form need to stay in tact.

Instructions for modifying posttemplate.html:

Put  into the file wherever you want the message board name to appear.
 is for linking to the message ID which a user has just posted. Leave it inside of the <a> tag.