Install Cutenews
Cutenews is a news/blogging system that lets people comment on your posts and more. :) But installing it can be complicated, even with their instructions.
NOTE: You must have a domain for cutenews to work! PHP scripts don't work on free sites except freehostia.com and awardspace.com
Go to their website here, then download cutenews (if you're not sure what to click on, just click the green arrow!). Open the files and unzip them (extract).
When it's done extracting, click Finish. You should see a single folder, so right click on it and click Send To... 'My Documents'.
X out of all the extra windows with cutenews, and go to your file manager (the one in cPanel is easy to use- cPanel probably came with your domain). Click on public_html and make a new folder in there called cutenews or something.
This is the hardest part. Open the new folder for cutenews and go to Upload. Find 'My Documents' and find the cutenews files you saved earlier. What you have to do now is upload every single file in the cutenews folder. One of the most important things is that you keep the levels the same, meaning if it has a seperate folder for images, you have to make a folder for images (within your cutenews folder for your site) and upload all the files. This whole step takes a LONG time.
After all that, go to the main section of your cutenews folder and click on the index page (open it to view, not edit). Click on Proceed Installation. If everything says Writable, you're good to go. Click on Proceed Installation again.
Enter all the information (be sure to write down your login info on a piece of paper!) and click Proceed Installation.
Click on Login and login. Now you can start adding news! :) If you want your cutenews to show up on your website, add the following code:
<?PHP $number=3; include("cutenews/show_news.php"); ?>
Change the number to however many news posts you want per page, and change cutenews to whatever you named the folder for cutenews. All done!
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Cutenews was the first php script I ever installed, so it took several hours (okay, okay, I'm an idiot) but once you've installed a few scripts successfully, you'll realize they're pretty much all the same for installing. The cutenews I installed for tutorial purposes only took me 5-10 minutes to install as compared to a few hours. =) So it might seem really confusing, but it'll get a lot easier.
