Hot or Not Dynamic web site.

Login to your site control panel and create a database called "hotornot" or anything you prefer.

Open the file config.php in either a text editor or any html editor.

This page is commented from top to bottom so that you can easily change the site setting. Make sure your enter your database information correctly, and scroll down so that the full path to your new folder is correct.

All other site settings other than the database information can be changed once your site is running from the Admin Pages.

Open the file process.php

At the top you will see the text below. This is to watermark your members uploaded images.
// Image manipulation feature.  Only works on JPGs and on servers that support GD
$addwhat=1; // Add what to uploaded Images?  See next line
// (0=nothing!, 1 = Logo (tag.jpg)
$logoh = "12"; // logo height if adding a logo (tag.jpg) Change the tag.jpg to something denoting your own website.

Upload all files to your new web hosting folder.

Once uploaded you need to Chmod 777 the folder "members" to allow members to upload their images.
Chmod 777 the config.php file, this allows you to change the setting from the administration panel.

Running http://www.yoursite.com/hotornot/newinstall.php will populate your new database with basic properties required, however we suggest you load an existing database from our demo site, use the file hotornot.sql that is included in the folder troubleshooting. This will allow you to see the site operational quicker and you can see how to change/edit the site more easily.

Run "newinstall.php" for a blank database. Import hotornot.sql to setup the site to use the demo properties for a quicker start.

You have setup enough to run your new site.

Go to http://www.yoursite.com/admin.php to login to the administration page. From here you can change site setting, moderators, accounts, images and more.

Admin Login:
Username: admin
Password: password69

If you create any moderator account so that people can help you with the site, dont worry about them changing anything important because their access will only permit them to accept or reject images. This is why from the moderate images there is no return to the main administration panel of the site.

Trouble Shooting:

If you visit your new site and receive a text file to "add some images" it is because you do not have enough accounts for the software to run, you need at least 3 members to upload images first.
To signup for the first three accounts visit the web folder you installed the software and type signup.php:
http://www.yourdomain/newfolder/signup.php
Once you have created 3 test accounts and uploaded at least 1 image for each account you should login to your administration panel from:
http://www.yourdomain/newfolder/admin.php click "Moderate images" and use the options to approve/reject/resize the images.
After this try logging on to your site main page http://www.yourdomain/newfolder/ and you should be able to start voting on the images.

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If when you try logging in to the administration panel you repeatedly see the login boxes only, then your server is not setup for allowing sessions.

There is a file called php.ini in the folder called troubleshooting. This is setup to allow sessions from a unix web space, how ever you must make sure you create a new directory in your webspace called sessions, you must Chmod 777 this folder, you must also add the full server path to the php.ini file, open php.ini in wordpad or notepad and search for the text "session.save_path = /home/username/sessions"
Change this for the full server path to your new sessions folder. Now you should be able to login to the administration without error.

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If you cannot upload any images and you keep receiving error messages it could be you have not correctly "Chmod 777" the members directory, check this and try again.

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After uploading images if you selected to add your own image to "watermark" the images but nothing is displaying? check to make sure you have uploaded your own image to the main directory of all your hot or not files. Not into the images or members directory.
If you have uploaded to the correct folder but it is not working you may need to check with your web host provider to make sure you have access to GD library required to add watermarking to images.

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