$conn = mysql_connect($host,$username,$password);

$db = mysql_select_db($database, $conn);

Querying the “Users”

$users = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `members`");

Displaying a list of users with while

while ($user = mysql_fetch_assoc($users)){
$userName = $user['members_display_name'];
echo $userName . "<br/>";
}

Before and After

As you can see, I have saved a considerable about of space by doing this…Here’s how it’s done:

AdminCP > Look and Feel > Manage Skin Sets & Templates > Edit whichever template your using (backup the file your about to change if necessary also)

Find your skin and select Manage Templates & CSS

Go to userInfoPane and find:

<if test="authorcfields:|:$author['custom_fields'] != """>
<ul class='custom_fields'>
<foreach loop="customFieldsOuter:$author['custom_fields'] as $group => $data">
<foreach loop="customFields:$author['custom_fields'][ $group ] as $field">
<if test="$field != ''">
<li>
{$field}
</li>
</if>
</foreach>
</foreach>
</ul>
</if>

all you need to do is remove the <li> and </li> surrounding the {$field} so that the same code now looks like:

<if test="authorcfields:|:$author['custom_fields'] != """>
<ul class='custom_fields'>
<foreach loop="customFieldsOuter:$author['custom_fields'] as $group => $data">
<foreach loop="customFields:$author['custom_fields'][ $group ] as $field">
<if test="$field != ''">
{$field}
</if>
</foreach>
</foreach>
</ul>
</if>

Save your changes and it should have updated

AdminCP > System Settings > System > Search Engine Optimization > Board index page title

Nice quick and easy tutorial, hopefully will save you time searching for this quite hidden option.

First of all, open up terminal and type in

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5

this should install all of the components required for the basic server itself.

once they have been downloaded you will get the mysql server screen, this is where you enter the password for the root user, so enter this then hit ok. it will then return to terminal after doing a few other things, once your back to something like:

david@lamp: ~$ then you know your done, i’d recommend a restart here, since it will make sure everything loads correctly.

Once we’re back up and running, we can check to see if our server is running, simply open the web browser and type in http://localhost/ and if all is well you should see a page saying It Works!

now the next step that I prefer to do, is to change the owner of www to my own user account, which makes it easier to just drag and drop files etc, so to do this from terminal type sudo dolphin and then right click the folder www and go to properties then permissions, type in the owner and then ok.

Installing phpMyAdmin

Download phpMyAdmin from http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ once downloaded, extract the files, and then move them into /var/www/phpmyadmin, this will then allow you to access it from http://localhost/phpmyadmin.

In this example we’ll have a link to a users youtube page

Create a new Custom Field

Admin CP > Members > Custom Profile Fields

Add Field

Title and Description: youtube
Field Type: text input
Field Key: youtube

Topic View Format:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/{content}" target="_blank"><img src="http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh309/PrivateSniper/Forum%20Images/youtube.jpg" /></a>

This will produce an image , that when clicked on will take you to the link, {content} is what the user enters.
so if I have on my profile a youtube link of “privatesniper” the link will take you to http:// www youtube com / user / privatesniper

If you want to show the image and then the users input after for example PrivateSniper – then in your topic view format you could do the following

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/{content}" target="_blank"><img src="http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh309/PrivateSniper/Forum%20Images/youtube.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/{content}" target="_blank">{content}</a>

The reason I duplicate the link for the image and content is in the past creating a link with an image and text when underlined often underlines the space between the image and the rest of the text, which just looks odd.

Press windows & R for run box

type “netplwiz” or “control userpasswords2″ – either will work fine

Untick “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.”

You will then be prompted to enter default login details, just ok this box unless you have a password in which case type this in, then apply and restart, pc will auto-login

All the code you should type is highlighted for quick reference in bold/italic

First of all, you simply run the Ruby installer from the website, then you download ruby gems setup, extract

all of the files, and run setup.rb – this installs gems. now that they’re both installed, the core as such

I’d recommend rebooting. now this is where the documentation tends to let you down, it simply says open up

a ruby console, and the default one never seems to work (Interactive Ruby Console).

So we go to our start menu, and then Ruby>RubyGems and open up the Ruby Gems Console, this gets us into a

working console, we can then run

gem update –system (this checks the core ruby and gems for an update as far as i’m aware)

gem install rake (not sure what rake is, but it seems to be required for ruby on rails

further down the line, though no-one seems to mention that

gem install rails (hopefully no need to explain why )

gem install mongrel (mongrel is a local testing server – similar to apache)

Now I think we should be ready to start our application.

So I type in at this console

rails myapp (change myapp to the name of your application/site)

now the command prompt shows it has installed a few default files and since I ran at C:\Ruby, the files are

located in C:\Ruby\myapp

now i’m going to start mongrel

so at the prompt I type cd myapp (since i’m already in the ruby folder)

and now the command

mongrel_rails start -d

of course being on XP I get a firewall dialogue, so I choose to allow it.

the last line when you run this command gives us the details of the server

**Mongrel 1.1.5 available at 0.0.0.0:3000

so to access our server we simply type in http://localhost:3000

and you should see your ruby on rails enviroment all ready to use! (you need to keep that console open

unless you install the mongrel service)

To run mongrel as a service

gem install mongrel_service

then :

mongrel_rails service::install -N MyAppsServiceName -c c:\Ruby\myapp\ -p 4000 -e production

the -N gives the service a custom name, so if you needed to ctrl-alt-del that’s the name that would appear

the -c is the change to directory – basically where you want your scripts to start from, aka the myapp

folder

the -p is the portand the -e is the mode you want to run it in.

assuming this has worked correctly you can click start>run type “services.msc” scroll down the list and

find your app, right click it and start the service, you can now open up the port you specified in your

browser and all should be swell

Not quite as easy as the initial documentation suggested but I got there in the end..

First of all, open up terminal and type in

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5

this should install all of the components required for the basic server itself.

once they have been downloaded you will get the mysql server screen, this is where you enter the password for the root user, so enter this then hit ok. it will then return to terminal after doing a few other

things, once your back to something like:

david@lamp: ~$ then you know your done, i’d recommend a restart here, since it will make sure everything

loads correctly.

Once we’re back up and running, we can check to see if our server is running, simply open the web browser

and type in http://localhost/ and if all is well you should see a page saying It Works!

now the next step that I prefer to do, is to change the owner of www to my own user account, which makes it easier to just drag and drop files etc, so to do this from terminal type sudo dolphin and then right click the folder www and go to properties then permissions, type in the owner and then ok.

Installing phpMyAdmin

Download phpMyAdmin from http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ once downloaded, extract the files, and then move them into /var/www/phpmyadmin, this will then allow you to access it from http://localhost/phpmyadmin.

Go to C:\ Windows \ Microsoft.net \
then into the “framework” folder (x86) and “framework64″ (x64) to see which versions are installed, eg; 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0.30319

How to get .net v4.0 full (x86 or x64)
Use the following link for the full redistributable package: Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Standalone Installer)

# Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\VC\VCRedist\x86]
Installed = 1 (REG_DWORD)

# Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\VC\VCRedist\x64]
Installed = 1 (REG_DWORD)

Where to download from
x86: Official Link
x64: Official Link