Using Fan Update

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Fan Update is a news management system that is really easy to install. Most people would highly recommend this over Cutenews and I would have to agree with them. Fan Update is safer than Cutenews and is spam-free. If you want to learn how to install Fan Update and display your blog entries in your site, read this tutorial.

tutorial credit: Nikana

Requirements

Stop! Before you go on with the rest of the tutorial, make sure your host supports PHP and MYSQL. Without any of those, you won't be able to install and use Fan Update.

Installing

1. To download Fan Update, click HERE. Take note that I didn't make Fan Update. I put the link of the program up here because the original source is no longer working.
2. After downloading the zip file, extract it. Then upload it to your site by using the FTP program of your choice.
3. Open up blog-config.php and edit the needed variables. If you don't know what to edit, refer to the code below. You are supposed to replace the words in bold. Take note that you are supposed to create a database first before you fill out the database variables!
   // ------------->ADMIN VARIABLES

$fanupdate['admin_username'] = 'user';
$fanupdate['admin_password'] = md5('pass');


// ------------->DATABASE VARIABLES

$fanupdate['dbhost'] = 'localhost';
$fanupdate['dbuser'] = 'dbuser';
$fanupdate['dbpass'] = 'dbpass';
$fanupdate['dbname'] = 'dbname';

   
4. Then, visit http://yoursite.com/fanupdate/install.php to install.

Displaying Entries

To display Fan Update entries into your site, place the following code where you want your blog to be.

<?php

// FanUpdate 2.2.1 blog
// subject: all posts

$main_limit = NUMBER OF POSTS;

require_once('/home/USER/public_html/USER/fanupdate/show-blog.php');
?>


Congratulations! You have just installed and used Fan Update! =] Hope this tutorial was of some help.


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