For automatic installation follow these steps 1) Create an /automaticsubmitter/ folder on your server 2) extract .zip contents to your desktop. Upload contents within the /automaticsubmitter/ folder in the .zip file to /automaticsubmitter/ folder on your server. 3) on your server, change the permissions for following file to 777 a) cconfig.php 4) create a MySQL database at your server. 5) go to yourdomain.com/automaticsubmitter/install.php and give the required info. 6) press submit, it will install the system. 7) log in at yourdomain.com/automaticsubmitter/ ------------------------------------------------------------- For manual installation follow these steps 1) Create a new database at your server and import the sql.txt into your MySQL server to create the necessary tables. 2) Modify the config.php by opening it in Notepad or any .php editor. 3) Change the following variables to your info: $this->m_db['server']="localhost"; $this->m_db['user']="YourDBUser"; $USER_VAR['password']="YourDBPass"; $USER_VAR['dbname']="YourDB"; $this->m_base_path= "/home/user/public_html/automaticsubmitter"; 4) modify the sql.txt file by adding the line below to the dumping data for table 'users' (near the bottom of the file) INSERT INTO `users` (`user_id`, `login`, `password`, `is_admin`) VALUES (1, 'admin', 'admin', 'Y'); 5) Create an /automaticsubmitter/ folder on your server 6) extract .zip contents to your desktop. Upload contents within the /automaticsubmitter/ folder in the .zip file to /automaticsubmitter/ folder on your server. 7) on your server, change the permissions for following file to 777 a) cconfig.php 8) log in at yourdomain.com/automaticsubmitter/ NOTE: You must have this script on a Linux server which supports curl for php. If you don't have curl on your server please contact your host and they can install it for you. This script will not work on a Windows server. -------------------------------------------------------------- Note: To change the user and password for all directories before installation. Open the sql.txt file and do a search for 'yourusername' and replace with your real user name, do the same for 'yourpassword' or to make this process even simpler we have included a search and replace tool available at the download page. -------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Since this submitter uses a database it is always advised to optimize the database tables and to empty the articles, articles_submitted and the message tables after every few submissions. It can be easily done through your phpmyadmin.