This version of phpBB Primetime requires at least phpBB 3.0.6-RC1. Please make sure that you have a fully working phpBB board before installing phpBB Primetime. If you have a heavily modded board, I'll suggest backing up your files before continuing.

Like a typical phpBB3 MOD, there are 2 parts to installing phpBB Primetime: File Edits and Database update. To install phpBB Primetime, please do the following:

1. Decompress the phpBB Primetime archive to a local directory on your system.
2. At this point, you have 2 options:

   • 1.i. Automatic Installation (Recommended)

     • Download and install autoMod
     • Upload the primetime directory into the root/store/mods/ directory on your server
     • Go to the Administrative control panel and click on 'AutoMod'
     • Click on 'Install' to install phpBB Primetime (Will take a few seconds). There's been some issues with autoMod's ftp feature so please ensure that files were copied correctly.
     • Continue to step 3 below

   • 1.ii. Manual Installation

     • Using your browser, open the install.xml file located in the root directory of this distribution
     • Using your favorite text-editor, follow the instruction to edit the phpBB3 files. This may take several minutes.
     • Upload all the files contained in the root directory to the corresponding directory on your server or hosting account (retaining the directory structure).
     • Continue to step 3 below
3. Using your web browser visit the location you placed phpBB3 with the addition of install/index.php or pointing directly to install/, e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/phpBB3/install/, http://www.mydomain.com/forum/install/ etc.
4. Click the INSTALL tab, follow the steps.
5. phpBB Primetime should now be available, please MAKE SURE you read at least Section 4 below for important, security related post-installation instructions.

If you experienced problems or do not know how to proceed with any of the steps above please visit our Support Site.

If you are currently running a previous version of phpBB Primetime, updating is simple.

1. Decompress the phpBB Primetime archive to a local directory on your system.
2. Upload all the files contained in the root directory to the corresponding directory on your server or hosting account (retaining the directory structure).
3. Check the contrib folder for any update instructions. If any, it should have a filename showing the previous version and this version (e.g. update_1.0.0-1.0.1, etc)
4. Please follow any update instructions using your favorite text-editor or autoMod
5. Using your web browser visit the location you placed phpBB3 with the addition of install/index.php or pointing directly to install/, e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/phpBB3/install/, http://www.mydomain.com/forum/install/ etc.
6. Click the UPDATE tab and follow the steps.
7. Your phpBB Primetime system should now be up to date, please MAKE SURE you read at least Section 4 below for important, security related post-installation instructions.

Please note that you can disable phpBB Primetime from the administrative control panel without having to uninstall it, if this is only temporary.

While we would really hate to see you do this we understand phpBB Primetime may not be for everybody. To uninstall phpBB Primetime:

1. Using your web browser visit the location you placed phpBB3 with the addition of install/index.php or pointing directly to install/, e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/phpBB3/install/, http://www.mydomain.com/forum/install/ etc.
2. Click the UNINSTALL tab and follow the steps. This will only remove the database changes.
3. Using autoMod (if you installed using autoMod), you may be able to undo the file edits, otherwise you will have to do them manually

Once you have successfully installed phpBB Primetime you MUST ensure you remove the entire install/ directory. Leaving the install directory in place is a very serious potential security issue which may lead to deletion or alteration of files, etc. Please note that until this directory is removed, phpBB3 will not operate and a warning message will be displayed.

This application is opensource software released under the GPL.