1. Download Affiliationally and extract all the files.
http://inspirationally.net2. Go to your CPanel, make a new database and user to use for it - make sure the user has all privileges. You may also use an existing MySQL database.
3a. Edit the following in config.php in the affiliationally directory.
$affadmin_password = 'loginpassword';// change the admin password here!
$affadminname = 'Admin';// put in your name appearing in email notifications here!
$affpath = '/home/user/public_html/affiliationally/';// the path to your affiliationally installation including trailing slash
$affurl = 'http://yourdomain/affiliationally/';// the url to your affiliationally installation
$affdatabase_server = 'localhost';//usually localhost
$affdatabase = 'database';//your database
$affdatabase_user = 'username';//database username
$affdatabase_password = 'topsecret';//your top secret password
3b. You may also edit these settings.
// how to display headlines. Mask a " with a \ before, like class=\"bla\"
$affbeforeheadline = '<h3>';
$affafterheadline = '</h3>';
// some other individual settings - set to yes or no
$affopennewwindow = 'no'; //do you want to open links in a new window? (not xhtml valid!)
$affspamprotection = 'no'; // do you want the mathmatics spam protection?
4a. Upload the affiliationally directory to your site using FTP.
4b. CHMOD the images folder to 777.
4c. Run create.php in your browser.
5a. Create ONE category to use for your site.
5b. Add your subcategories (elite, top, regular).
5c. Start adding affiliates.
6a. Click on "get codes" at the bottom. These codes are what you'll use to display your affiliates on your site.
6b. If you'll be using multiple includes, you are allowed to remove the credit lines in display.php (says so in the ReadMe file).
EDIT: If this little tutorial helped, please tell me so I can actually add it to my site.
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