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    /   _____/|  |__  |__|  _____    _____  |__|  ____  \_____  \  
    \_____  \ |  |  \ |  | /     \  /     \ |  |_/ __ \  /  ____/  
    /        \|   Y  \|  ||  Y Y  \|  Y Y  \|  |\  ___/ /       \  
   /_______  /|___|  /|__||__|_|  /|__|_|  /|__| \___  >\_______ \ 
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Shimmie Development
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is the main branch of Shimmie, if you know anything at all about
running websites, this is the version to use. Alternatively if you want
a version that will never have significant changes, check out one of the
versioned branches.


Requirements
~~~~~~~~~~~~
MySQL/MariaDB 5.1+ (with experimental support for PostgreSQL 8+ and SQLite 3)
PHP 5.3+
GD or ImageMagick


Installation
~~~~~~~~~~~~
1) Create a blank database
2) Unzip shimmie into a folder on the web host
3) Visit the folder with a web browser
4) Enter the location of the database
5) Click "install". Hopefully you'll end up at the welcome screen; if
   not, you should be given instructions on how to fix any errors~


Upgrade from 2.3.X
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Backup your current files and database!
- Unzip into a clean folder
- Copy across the images, thumbs, and data folders
- Move old/config.php to new/data/config/shimmie.conf.php
- Edit shimmie.conf.php to use the new database connection format:

 OLD: $database_dsn = "<proto>://<username>:<password>@<host>/<database>";
 NEW: define("DATABASE_DSN", "<proto>:user=<username>;password=<password>;host=<host>;dbname=<database>");

The rest should be automatic~

If there are any errors with the upgrade process, "in_upgrade=true" will
be left in the config table and the process will be paused for the admin
to investigate. Deleting this config entry and refreshing the page should
continue the upgrade from where it left off.


Upgrade from earlier versions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I very much recommend going via each major release in turn (eg, 2.0.6
-> 2.1.3 -> 2.2.4 -> 2.3.0 rather than 2.0.6 -> 2.3.0). While the basic
database and file formats haven't changed *completely*, it's different
enough to be a pain.


Custom Configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Various aspects of Shimmie can be configured to suit your site specific needs
via the file "data/config/shimmie.conf.php" (created after installation).
Take a look at "core/sys_config.inc.php" for the available options that can
be used.


Custom User Classes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
User classes can be added to or altered by placing them in
`data/config/user-classes.conf.php`. For example, one can override the
default anonymous "allow nothing" permissions like so:

new UserClass("anonymous", "base", array(
	"create_comment" => True,
	"edit_image_tag" => True,
	"edit_image_source" => True,
	"create_image_report" => True,
));

For a moderator class, being a regular user who can delete images and
comments:

new UserClass("moderator", "user", array(
	"delete_image" => True,
	"delete_comment" => True,
));

For a list of permissions, see core/userclass.class.php


Development Info
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ui-* cookies are for the client-side scripts only; in some configurations
(eg with varnish cache) they will be stripped before they reach the server

shm-* CSS classes are for javascript to hook into; if you're customising
themes, be careful with these, and avoid styling them, eg:

- shm-thumb = outermost element of a thumbnail
   - data-tags
   - data-post-id
- shm-toggler = click this to toggle elements that match the selector
  - data-toggle-sel
- shm-unlocker = click this to unlock elements that match the selector
  - data-unlock-sel
- shm-clink = a link to a comment, flash the target element when clicked
  - data-clink-sel

http://shimmie.shishnet.org/doc/

Please tell me if those docs are lacking in any way, so that they can be
improved for the next person who uses them


Contact
~~~~~~~
#shimmie on Freenode -- IRC
webmaster at shishnet.org -- email
https://github.com/shish/shimmie2/issues -- bug tracker


Licence
~~~~~~~
All code is GPLv2 unless mentioned otherwise; ie, if you give shimmie to
someone else, you have to give them the source (which should be easy, as PHP
is an interpreted language...). If you want to add customisations to your own
site, then those customisations belong to you, and you can do what you want
with them.