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I was wondering if someone could walk me through a standard install process. I feel kind of dumb because the instructions just say to upload it and it should work. I'm not going to lie, I'm not very well-versed in vBulletin (or mods to it) as of yet. Here's what I did:

1) Uploaded the "include" and "itemstats" folder to my vbulletin directory on the web server.

2) Tried a test post...that didn't work. The text just showed up at [item] My Item[/item]

3) Realized that I never imported the included "product-gItemStats.xml" so I did that.

4) Tried another post. Still didn't work, but this time the text was indicated to be a hyperlink. It did quickly flash to an error page that said:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'DBUSER'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in E:\websites\forum_name\forums\itemstats\includes\s qlhelper.php on line 30
string(40) "Unable to connect to SQL host: localhost"

Still didn't work after that.

My problem is, I'm not sure if I missed a simple step that is just not causing it to work, or if I legitimately need to go in and edit something (not sure what that would be). I just know that I followed the instructions to "upload it and go" and I'm not having very much success.

If anyone could help me shed a little light on this, it would be greatly appreciated. Even if its just a matter of "ok dummy, here's exactly what you need to do, step by step", that's fine. Just not real sure what to do from here.

Thanks in advance!