[vbboarder]

It took some effort to get Zoints installed on Windows XP correctly, so I thought I share some tips for everyone.

1. The installation link to register and get a token may be broken: you can register directly at: http://zoints.com/forum.z

2. The installation asks for and suggests a path to the forum. Contrary to Windows conventions, relative & absolute paths with '\' delimiters do not work for installing Zoints in Windows. So the solution is simple: just use the suggested path (or the file system path where your forum directory is located) and change all '\' to forward slashes, '/'. Note that this path is only used to install Zoints - it is different from the site path (URL) that you'll configure in the last step. (Note to Zoints team: if using '\' delimiters on Windows when installing your mod, your install script simply strips out the '\' delimiters giving one long filename.... strange behavior.)

3. You can add links to Zoints pages in your User CP as suggested in the usercpmod.txt file in the "helpful docs" folder. However, if you use the popular "Icons for User CP Navigation" mod, then you'll need to add to the USERCP_SHELL_ICONS template the same extra html in the same suggested location as in USERCP_SHELL (read the usercpmod.txt file if you're confused). Otherwise, these extra links will not show up.

Hope these tips help. Thanks Zoints for a great mod - can't wait till the "gold" release!