[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by rhamer

Without sounding stupid, is there a complete idiots guide to getting this working?

I am a new forum admin, but I am a programmer (not PHP) and I am struggling to understand how this all hangs together and how to make it work.

I imported the XML file with the product manager.
I then found the plugin and edited that, although I didnt make any changes.
I figured that the PHP code was what generated the form, so I left that alone for the minute to just get something to work.

However I don't know how to get this to trigger from a forum i.e when I press the new thread button, I don't get the form.

I assume you enable it somehow for each forum.

I also don't understand the relationship between the product and the plugin. Do you use the priduct to create multiple plugins as needed? How are they named and how does the name relate to which form you want displayed in each forum?

I tried reading this entire thread, but 90 pages is beyond me making sense of it.

Any help and guidence would be most appreciated.

Cheers

Rohan

Most of this is explained in the supplied documentation, but basically, you only need to edit the plugin and the two templates. The $variables are defined in the plugin. If you tell the plugin that $firstname is equal to "First Name", then every instance of $firstname in the template will convert to First Name.

You don't necessarily have to do that for all text, as is shown in the example plugin, but you do need to do it for the form areas. Open the plugin again and go through the area again line by line. There's instructions all through the plugin on what does what and what needs to be configured. In fact, most, if not all of the documentation was worked into the plugin's comments.