INSTALL

  - Be sure to have a recent PHP version! At least 5.3 with GD library is required
  - copy all files in a directory somewhere below your webserver root
  
  Do one of these steps:

    -  point your browser the install.php and follow the instructions

  or (not recommended since v2.0)

    - create a MySQL-Database using the table definitions in install/install.sql
    - edit the config.inc.php to match your database

  - point your browser to your new VideoDB and add some movies
  - customize everything in the config screen

UPDATING FROM A PRIOR VERSION

  - extract the new videoDB archive into the same folder as your old installation
  - open videoDB- the system will recognize that upgrade is required and start install.php
  
  or

    - manually point your browser to install.php
    
  - follow the instructions

  or (not recommended since v2.0)

    - run doc/updatedb.sql over your existing database with the -f option to
      force mysql to ignore errors. This *should* not delete any of your data.
      e.g.
        mysql -p -f VideoDB < doc/updatedb.sql

  - check out new config options in the config screen

CUSTOMIZING

  - You can define up to four custom fields in the config screen
  - You can add input and output functions for them in custom.php
  - You can add additional stylesheets by dropping them into the template
    directory (e.g. templates/default/)
  - You can create your own templates by putting them into their own
    directory in templates/
  - Whenever you do anything of the above please send it to me

PROBLEMS/FEEDBACK

  - Use the mailinglist to contact the developers at
    http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/videodb-devel

THANKS

  - all the people mentioned in the CHANGELOG
  - all th people who made the wonderful free software this project is
    based on (e.g. Developers of PHP, Smarty, Apache, MySQL, Linux)
  
LICENSE

  VideoDB is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
  See COPYING for more Info
  
  VideoDB comes with the Smarty Template Engine
  Smarty is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
  See COPYING.lib in the smarty directory for more Info