Edit Boards
In this menu you can create/reorder/remove boards, and the categories above them. For example, if you had a wide-ranging site that offered information on "Sports" and "Cars" and "Music", these would be the top-level Categories you\'d create. Under each of these categories you\'d likely want to create hierarchical "sub-categories", or "Boards" for topics within each. It\'s a simple hierarchy, with this structure:
Categories allow you to break down the board into broad topics ("Cars, Sports"), and the "Boards" under them are the actual topics under which members can post. A user interested in Pintos would post a message under "Cars->Pinto". Categories allow people to quickly find what their interests are: Instead of a "Store" you have "Hardware" and "Clothing" stores you can go to. This simplifies your search for "pipe joint compound" because you can go to the Hardware Store "category" instead of the Clothing Store (where you\'re unlikely to find pipe joint compound).
As noted above, a Board is a key topic underneath a broad category. If you want to discuss "Pintos" you\'d go to the "Auto" category and jump into the "Pinto" board to post your thoughts in that board.
Administrative functions for this menu item are to create new boards under each category, to reorder them (put "Pinto" behind "Chevy"), or to delete the board entirely.'; $helptxt['edit_news'] = 'Edit Forum News
This allows you to set the text for news items displayed on the Board Index page. Add any item you want (e.g., "Don\'t miss the conference this Tuesday"). Each news item should go in a separate box, and they are displayed randomly.'; $helptxt['view_members'] = ' '; $helptxt['ban_members'] = 'Ban Members
SMF provides the ability to "ban" users, to prevent people who have violated the trust of the board by spamming, trolling, etc. This allows you to those users who are detrimental to your forum. As an admin, when you view messages, you can see each user\'s IP address used to post at that time. In the ban list, you simply type that IP address in, save, and they can no longer post from that location.
You can also ban people through their email address.'; $helptxt['modsettings'] = 'Edit Features and Options
There are several features in this section that can be changed to your preference. Options for installed mods will generally also appear in here.'; $helptxt['number_format'] = 'Number Format
You can use this setting to format the way in which numbers on your forum will be displayed to the user. The format of this setting is:
1,234.00

Where \',\' is the character used to split up groups of thousands, \'.\' is the character used as the decimal point and the number of zeros dictate the accuracy of roundings.'; $helptxt['time_format'] = 'Time Format
You have the power to adjust how the time and date look for yourself. There are a lot of little letters, but it\'s quite simple. The conventions follow PHP\'s strftime function and are described as below (more details can be found at php.net).

The following characters are recognized in the format string:
  %a - abbreviated weekday name
  %A - full weekday name
  %b - abbreviated month name
  %B - full month name
  %d - day of the month (01 to 31)
  %D* - same as %m/%d/%y
  %e* - day of the month (1 to 31)
  %H - hour using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23)
  %I - hour using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12)
  %m - month as a number (01 to 12)
  %M - minute as a number
  %p - either "am" or "pm" according to the given time
  %R* - time in 24 hour notation
  %S - second as a decimal number
  %T* - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S
  %y - 2 digit year (00 to 99)
  %Y - 4 digit year
  %Z - time zone or name or abbreviation
  %% - a literal \'%\' character

* Does not work on Windows-based servers.'; $helptxt['live_news'] = 'Live announcements
This box shows recently updated announcements from www.simplemachines.org. You should check here every now and then for updates, new releases, and important information from Simple Machines.'; $helptxt['registrations'] = 'Registration Management
This section contains all the functions that could be necessary to manage new registrations on the forum. It contains up to four sections which are visible depending on your forum settings. These are:

'; $helptxt['modlog'] = 'Moderation Log
This section allows members of the admin team to track all the moderation actions that the forum moderators have performed. To ensure that moderators cannot remove references to the actions they have performed, entries may not be deleted until 24 hours after the action was taken. The \'objects\' column lists any variables associated with the action.'; $helptxt['error_log'] = 'Error Log
The error log tracks logs every serious error encountered by users using your forum. It lists all of these errors by date which can be sorted by clicking the black arrow next to each date. Additionally you can filter the errors by clicking the picture next to each error statistic. This allows you to filter, for example, by member. When a filter is active the only results that will be displayed will be those that match that filter.'; $helptxt['theme_settings'] = 'Theme Settings
The settings screen allows you to change settings specific to a theme. These settings include options such as the themes directory and URL information but also options that affect the layout of a theme on your forum. Most themes will have a variety of user configurable options, allowing you to adapt a theme to suit your individual forum needs.'; $helptxt['smileys'] = 'Smiley Center
Here you can add and remove smileys, and smiley sets. Note importantly that if a smiley is in one set, it\'s in all sets - otherwise, it might get confusing for your users using different sets.

You are also able to edit message icons from here, if you have them enabled on the settings page.'; $helptxt['calendar'] = 'Manage Calendar
Here you can modify the current calendar settings as well as add and remove holidays that appear on the calendar.'; $helptxt['serversettings'] = 'Server Settings
Here you can perform the core configuration for your forum. This section includes the database and url settings, as well as other important configuration items such as mail settings and caching. Think carefully whenever editing these settings as an error may render the forum inaccessible'; $helptxt['topicSummaryPosts'] = 'This allows you to set the number of previous posts shown in the topic summary at the reply screen.'; $helptxt['enableAllMessages'] = 'Set this to the maximum number of posts a topic can have to show the all link. Setting this lower than "Maximum messages to display in a topic page" will simply mean it never gets shown, and setting it too high could slow down your forum.'; $helptxt['enableStickyTopics'] = 'Stickies are topics that remain on top of the topic list. They are mostly used for important messages. Although you can change this with permissions, by default only moderators and administrators can make topics sticky.'; $helptxt['allow_guestAccess'] = 'Unchecking this box will stop guests from doing anything but very basic actions - login, register, password reminder, etc. - on your forum. This is not the same as disallowing guest access to boards.'; $helptxt['userLanguage'] = 'Turning this option on will allow users to select which language file they use. It will not affect the default selection.'; $helptxt['trackStats'] = 'Stats:
This will allow users to see the latest posts and the most popular topics on your forum. It will also show several statistics, like the most members online, new members and new topics.
Page views:
Adds another column to the stats page with the number of pageviews on your forum.'; $helptxt['titlesEnable'] = 'Switching Custom Titles on will allow members with the relevant permission to create a special title for themselves. This will be shown underneath the name.
For example:
Jeff
Cool Guy'; $helptxt['topbottomEnable'] = 'This will add go up and go down buttons, so that member can go to the top and bottom of a page without scrolling.'; $helptxt['onlineEnable'] = 'This will show an image to indicate whether the member is online or offline'; $helptxt['todayMod'] = 'This will show "Today", or "Yesterday", instead of the date.'; $helptxt['enablePreviousNext'] = 'This will show a link to the next and previous topic.'; $helptxt['pollMode'] = 'This selects whether polls are enabled or not. If polls are disabled, any existing polls will be hidden from the topic listing. You can choose to continue to show the regular topic without their polls by selecting "Show Existing Polls as Topics".

To choose who can post polls, view polls, and similar, you can allow and disallow those permissions. Remember this if polls are not working.'; $helptxt['enableVBStyleLogin'] = 'This will show a more compact login on every page of the forum for guests.'; $helptxt['enableCompressedOutput'] = 'This option will compress output to lower bandwidth consumption, but it requires zlib to be installed.'; $helptxt['databaseSession_enable'] = 'This option makes use of the database for session storage - it is best for load balanced servers, but helps with all timeout issues and can make the forum faster.'; $helptxt['databaseSession_loose'] = 'Turning this on will decrease the bandwidth your forum uses, and make it so clicking back will not reload the page - the downside is that the (new) icons won\'t update, among other things. (unless you click to that page instead of going back to it.)'; $helptxt['databaseSession_lifetime'] = 'This is the number of seconds for sessions to last after they haven\'t been accessed. If a session is not accessed for too long, it is said to have "timed out". Anything higher than 2400 is recommended.'; $helptxt['enableErrorLogging'] = 'This will log any errors, like a failed login, so you can see what went wrong.'; $helptxt['allow_disableAnnounce'] = 'This will allow users to opt out of notification of topics you announce by checking the "announce topic" checkbox when posting.'; $helptxt['disallow_sendBody'] = 'This option removes the option to receive the text of replies and posts in notification emails.

Often, members will reply to the notification email, which in most cases means the webmaster receives the reply.'; $helptxt['compactTopicPagesEnable'] = 'This will just show a selection of the number of pages.
Example: "3" to display: 1 ... 4 [5] 6 ... 9
"5" to display: 1 ... 3 4 [5] 6 7 ... 9'; $helptxt['timeLoadPageEnable'] = 'This will show the time in seconds SMF took to create that page at the bottom of the board.'; $helptxt['removeNestedQuotes'] = 'This will only show the quote of the post in question, not any quoted posts from that post.'; $helptxt['simpleSearch'] = 'This will show a simple search form and a link to a more advanced form.'; $helptxt['max_image_width'] = 'This allows you to set a maximum size for posted pictures. Pictures smaller than the maximum will not be affected.'; $helptxt['mail_type'] = 'This setting allows you to choose either PHP\'s default settings, or to override those settings with SMTP. PHP doesn\'t support using authentication with SMTP (which many hosts require, now) so if you want that you should select SMTP. Please note that SMTP can be slower, and some servers will not take usernames and passwords.

You don\'t need to fill in the SMTP settings if this is set to PHP\'s default.'; $helptxt['attachmentEnable'] = 'Attachments are files that members can upload, and attach to a post.

Check attachment extension:
Do you want to check the extension of the files?
Allowed attachment extensions:
You can set the allowed extensions of attached files.
Attachments directory:
The path to your attachment folder
(example: /home/sites/yoursite/www/forum/attachments)
Max attachment folder space (in KB):
Select how large the attachment folder can be, including all files within it.
Max attachment size per post (in KB):
Select the maximum filesize of all attachments made per post. If this is lower than the per-attachment limit, this will be the limit.
Max size per attachment (in KB):
Select the maximum filesize of each separate attachment.
Max number of attachments per post:
Select the number of attachments a person can make, per post.
Display attachment as picture in posts:
If the uploaded file is a picture, this will show it underneath the post.
Resize images when showing under posts:
If the above option is selected, this will save a separate (smaller) attachment for the thumbnail to decrease bandwidth.
Maximum width and height of thumbnails:
Only used with the "Resize images when showing under posts" option, the maximum width and height to resize attachments down from. They will be resized proportionally.'; $helptxt['karmaMode'] = 'Karma is a feature that shows the popularity of a member. Members, if allowed, can \'applaud\' or \'smite\' other members, which is how their popularity is calculated. You can change the number of posts needed to have a "karma", the time between smites or applauds, and if administrators have to wait this time as well.

Whether or not groups of members can smite others is controlled by a permission. If you have trouble getting this feature to work for everyone, double check your permissions.'; // !!! This should be resused or removed. $helptxt['cal_enabled'] = 'The calendar can be used for showing birthdays, or for showing important moments happening in your community.

Show days as link to \'Post Event\':
This will allow members to post events for that day, when they click on that date
Show week numbers:
Show which week it is.
Max days in advance on board index:
If this is set to 7, the next week\'s worth of events will be shown.
Show holidays on board index:
Show today\'s holidays in a calendar bar on the board index.
Show birthdays on board index:
Show today\'s birthdays in a calendar bar on the board index.
Show events on board index:
Show today\'s events in a calendar bar on the board index.
Default Board to Post In:
What\'s the default board to post events in?
Allow events not linked to posts:
Allow members to post events without requiring it to be linked with a post in a board.
Minimum year:
Select the "first" year on the calendar list.
Maximum year:
Select the "last" year on the calendar list
Birthday color:
Select the color of the birthday text
Event color:
Select the color of the event text
Holiday color:
Select the color of the Holiday text
Allow events to span multiple days:
Check to allow events to span multiple days.
Max number of days an event can span:
Select the maximum days that an event can span.

Remember that usage of the calendar (posting events, viewing events, etc.) is controlled by permissions set on the permissions screen.'; $helptxt['localCookies'] = 'SMF uses cookies to store login information on the client computer. Cookies can be stored globally (myserver.com) or locally (myserver.com/path/to/forum).
Check this option if you\'re experiencing problems with users getting logged out automatically.
Globally stored cookies are less secure when used on a shared webserver (like Tripod).
Local cookies don\'t work outside the forum folder so, if your forum is stored at www.myserver.com/forum, pages like www.myserver.com/index.php cannot access the account information. Especially when using SSI.php, global cookies are recommended.'; $helptxt['enableBBC'] = 'Selecting this option will allow your members to use Bulletin Board Code (BBC) throughout the forum, allowing users to format their posts with images, type formatting and more.'; $helptxt['time_offset'] = 'Not all forum administrators want their forum to use the same time zone as the server upon which it is hosted. Use this option to specify a time difference (in hours) from which the forum should operate from the server time. Negative and decimal values are permitted.'; $helptxt['spamWaitTime'] = 'Here you can select the amount of time that must pass between postings. This can be used to stop people from "spamming" your forum by limiting how often they can post.'; $helptxt['enablePostHTML'] = 'This will allow the posting of some basic HTML tags: '; $helptxt['themes'] = 'Here you can select whether the default theme can be chosen, what theme guests will use, as well as other options. Click on a theme to the right to change the settings for it.'; $helptxt['theme_install'] = 'This allows you to install new themes. You can do this from an already created directory, by uploading an archive for the theme, or by copying the default theme.

Note that the archive or directory must have a theme_info.xml definition file.'; $helptxt['enableEmbeddedFlash'] = 'This option will allow your users to use Flash directly inside their posts, just like images. This could pose a security risk, although few have successfully exploited it. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!'; // !!! Add more information about how to use them here. $helptxt['xmlnews_enable'] = 'Allows people to link to Recent news and similar data. It is also recommended that you limit the size of recent posts/news because, when rss data is displayed in some clients, like Trillian, it is expected to be truncated.'; $helptxt['hotTopicPosts'] = 'Change the number of posts for a topic to reach the state of a "hot" or "very hot" topic.'; $helptxt['globalCookies'] = 'Makes log in cookies available across subdomains. For example, if...
Your site is at http://www.simplemachines.org/,
And your forum is at http://forum.simplemachines.org/,
Using this option will allow you to access the forum\'s cookie on your site. Do not enable this if there are other subdomains (like hacker.simplemachines.org) not controlled by you.'; $helptxt['securityDisable'] = 'This disables the additional password check for the administration section. This is not recommended!'; $helptxt['securityDisable_why'] = 'This is your current password. (the same one you use to login.)

Having to type this helps ensure that you want to do whatever administration you are doing, and that it is you doing it.'; $helptxt['emailmembers'] = 'In this message you can use a few "variables". These are:
{$board_url} - The URL to your forum.
{$current_time} - The current time.
{$member.email} - The current member\'s email.
{$member.link} - The current member\'s link.
{$member.id} - The current member\'s id.
{$member.name} - The current member\'s name. (for personalization.)
{$latest_member.link} - The most recently registered member\'s link.
{$latest_member.id} - The most recently registered member\'s id.
{$latest_member.name} - The most recently registered member\'s name.'; $helptxt['attachmentEncryptFilenames'] = 'Encrypting attachment filenames allows you to have more than one attachment of the same name, to safely use .php files for attachments, and heightens security. It, however, could make it more difficult to rebuild your database if something drastic happened.'; $helptxt['failed_login_threshold'] = 'Set the number of failed login attempts before directing the user to the password reminder screen.'; $helptxt['oldTopicDays'] = 'If this option is enabled a warning will be displayed to the user when attempting to reply to a topic which has not had any new replies for the amount of time, in days, specified by this setting. Set this setting to 0 to disable the feature.'; $helptxt['edit_wait_time'] = 'Number of seconds allowed for a post to be edited before logging the last edit date.'; $helptxt['edit_disable_time'] = 'Number of minutes allowed to pass before a user can no longer edit a post they have made. Set to 0 disable.

Note: This will not effect any user who has permission to edit other peoples posts.'; $helptxt['enableSpellChecking'] = 'Enable spell checking. You MUST have the pspell library installed on your server and your PHP configuration set up to use the pspell library. Your server ' . (function_exists('pspell_new') ? 'DOES' : 'DOES NOT') . ' appear to have this set up.'; $helptxt['lastActive'] = 'Set the number of minutes to show people are active in X number of minutes on the board index. Default is 15 minutes.'; $helptxt['autoOptDatabase'] = 'This option optimizes the database every so many days. Set it to 1 to make a daily optimization. You can also specify a maximum number of online users, so that you won\'t overload your server or inconvenience too many users.'; $helptxt['autoFixDatabase'] = 'This will automatically fix broken tables and resume like nothing happened. This can be useful, because the only way to fix it is to REPAIR the table, and this way your forum won\'t be down until you notice. It does email you when this happens.'; $helptxt['enableParticipation'] = 'This shows a little icon on the topics the user has posted in.'; $helptxt['db_persist'] = 'Keeps the connection active to increase performance. If you aren\'t on a dedicated server, this may cause you problems with your host.'; $helptxt['queryless_urls'] = 'This changes the format of URLs a little so search engines will like them better. They will look like index.php/topic,1.html.

This feature will ' . (strpos(php_sapi_name(), 'apache') !== false ? '' : 'not') . ' work on your server.'; $helptxt['countChildPosts'] = 'Checking this option will mean that posts and topics in a board\'s child board will count toward its totals on the index page.

This will make things notably slower, but means that a parent with no posts in it won\'t show \'0\'.'; $helptxt['fixLongWords'] = 'This option breaks words longer than a certain length into pieces so they don\'t disturb the forum\'s layout. (as much...) This option should not be set to a value under 40.'; $helptxt['who_enabled'] = 'This option allows you to turn on or off the ability for users to see who is browsing the forum and what they are doing.'; $helptxt['recycle_enable'] = '"Recycles" deleted topics and posts to the specified board.'; $helptxt['enableReportPM'] = 'This option allows your users to report personal messages they receive to the administration team. This may be useful in helping to track down any abuse of the personal messaging system.'; $helptxt['max_pm_recipients'] = 'This option allows you to set the maximum amount of recipients allowed in a single personal message sent by a forum member. This may be used to help stop spam abuse of the PM system. Note that users with permission to send newsletters are exempt from this restriction. Set to zero for no limit.'; $helptxt['pm_posts_verification'] = 'This setting will force users to enter a code shown on a verification image each time they are sending a personal message. Only users with a post count below the number set will need to enter the code - this should help combat automated spamming scripts.'; $helptxt['pm_posts_per_hour'] = 'This will limit the number of personal messages which may be sent by a user in a one hour period. This does not affect admins or moderators.'; $helptxt['default_personalText'] = 'Sets the default text a user will have as their "personal text."'; $helptxt['modlog_enabled'] = 'Logs all moderation actions.'; $helptxt['guest_hideContacts'] = 'If selected this option will hide the email addresses and messenger contact details of all members from any guests on your forum'; $helptxt['registration_method'] = 'This option determines what method of registration is used for people wishing to join your forum. You can select from:

'; $helptxt['send_validation_onChange'] = 'When this option is checked all members who change their email address in their profile will have to reactivate their account from an email sent to that address'; $helptxt['send_welcomeEmail'] = 'When this option is enabled all new members will be sent an email welcoming them to your community'; $helptxt['password_strength'] = 'This setting determines the strength required for passwords selected by your forum users. The stronger the password, the harder it should be to compromise member\'s accounts. Its possible options are: '; $helptxt['coppaAge'] = 'The value specified in this box will determine the minimum age that new members must be to be granted immediate access to the forums. On registration they will be prompted to confirm whether they are over this age, and if not will either have their application rejected or suspended awaiting parental approval - dependant on the type of restriction chosen. If a value of 0 is chosen for this setting then all other age restriction settings shall be ignored.'; $helptxt['coppaType'] = 'If age restrictions are enabled, then this setting will define that happens when a user below the minimum age attempts to register with your forum. There are two possible choices: '; $helptxt['coppaPost'] = 'The contact boxes are required so that forms granting permission for underage registration can be sent to the forum administrator. These details will be shown to all new minors, and are required for parent/guardian approval. At the very least a postal address or fax number must be provided.'; $helptxt['allow_hideOnline'] = 'With this option enabled all members will be able to hide their online status from other users (except administrators). If disabled only users who can moderate the forum can hide their presence. Note that disabling this option will not change any existing member\'s status - it just stops them from hiding themselves in the future.'; $helptxt['allow_hideEmail'] = 'With this option enabled members can choose to hide their email address from other members. However, administrators can always see everyone\'s email addresses.'; $helptxt['latest_support'] = 'This panel shows you some of the most common problems and questions on your server configuration. Don\'t worry, this information isn\'t logged or anything.

If this stays as "Retrieving support information...", your computer probably cannot connect to www.simplemachines.org.'; $helptxt['latest_packages'] = 'Here you can see some of the most popular and some random packages or mods, with quick and easy installations.

If this section doesn\'t show up, your computer probably cannot connect to www.simplemachines.org.'; $helptxt['latest_themes'] = 'This area shows a few of the latest and most popular themes from www.simplemachines.org. It may not show up properly if your computer can\'t find www.simplemachines.org, though.'; $helptxt['secret_why_blank'] = 'For your security, the answer to your question (as well as your password) is encrypted in such a way that SMF can only tell you if get it right, so it can never tell you (or anyone else, importantly!) what your answer or password is.'; $helptxt['moderator_why_missing'] = 'Since moderation is done on a board-by-board basis, you have to make members moderators from the board management interface.'; $helptxt['permissions'] = 'Permissions are how you either allow groups to, or deny groups from, doing specific things.

You can modify multiple boards at once with the checkboxes, or look at the permissions for a specific group by clicking \'Modify.\''; $helptxt['permissions_board'] = 'If a board is set to \'Global,\' it means that the board will not have any special permissions. \'Local\' means it will have its own permissions - separate from the global ones. This allows you to have a board that has more or less permissions than another, without requiring you to set them for each and every board.'; $helptxt['permissions_quickgroups'] = 'These allow you to use the "default" permission setups - standard means \'nothing special\', restrictive means \'like a guest\', moderator means \'what a moderator has\', and lastly \'maintenance\' means permissions very close to those of an administrator.'; $helptxt['permissions_deny'] = 'Denying permissions can be useful when you want take away permission from certain members. You can add a membergroup with a \'deny\'-permission to the members you wish to deny a permission.

Use with care, a denied permission will stay denied no matter what other membergroups the member is in.'; $helptxt['permissions_postgroups'] = 'Enabling permissions for post count based groups will allow you to attribute permissions to members that have posted a certain amount of messages. The permissions of the post count based groups are added to the permissions of the regular membergroups.'; $helptxt['permissions_by_board'] = 'Enabling this option will allow you to, for each board for each membergroup, set different permissions. By default a board uses global permissions, but with this option enabled, you can switch a board to local permission settings. This provides a very sophisticated way to manage your permissions.'; $helptxt['membergroup_guests'] = 'The Guests membergroup are all users that are not logged in.'; $helptxt['membergroup_regular_members'] = 'The Regular Members are all members that are logged in, but that have no primary membergroup assigned.'; $helptxt['membergroup_administrator'] = 'The administrator can, per definition, do anything and see any board. There are no permission settings for the administrator.'; $helptxt['membergroup_moderator'] = 'The Moderator membergroup is a special membergroup. Permissions and settings assigned to this group apply to moderators but only on the boards they moderate. Outside these boards they\'re just like any other member.'; $helptxt['membergroups'] = 'In SMF there are two types of groups that your members can be part of. These are: '; $helptxt['calendar_how_edit'] = 'You can edit these events by clicking on the red asterisk (*) next to their names.'; $helptxt['maintenance_general'] = 'From here, you are able to optimize all your tables (makes them smaller and faster!), make sure you have the newest versions, find any errors that might be messing up your board, recount totals, and empty logs.

The last two should be avoided unless something is wrong, but don\'t hurt anything.'; $helptxt['maintenance_backup'] = 'This area allows you to save a copy of all the posts, settings, members, and other information in your forum to a very large file.

It is recommended that you do this often, perhaps weekly, for safety and security.'; $helptxt['maintenance_rot'] = 'This allows you to completely and irrevocably remove old topics. It is recommended that you try to make a backup first, just in case you remove something you didn\'t mean to.

Use this option with care.'; $helptxt['avatar_allow_server_stored'] = 'This allows your members to pick from avatars stored on your server itself. They are, generally, in the same place as SMF under the avatars folder.
As a tip, if you create directories in that folder, you can make "categories" of avatars.'; $helptxt['avatar_allow_external_url'] = 'With this enabled, your members can type in a URL to their own avatar. The downside of this is that, in some cases, they may use avatars that are overly large or portray images you don\'t want on your forum.'; $helptxt['avatar_download_external'] = 'With this option enabled, the URL given by the user is accessed to download the avatar at that location. On success, the avatar will be treated as uploadable avatar.'; $helptxt['avatar_allow_upload'] = 'This option is much like "Allow members to select an external avatar", except that you have better control over the avatars, a better time resizing them, and your members do not have to have somewhere to put avatars.

However, the downside is that it can take a lot of space on your server.'; $helptxt['avatar_download_png'] = 'PNGs are larger, but offer better quality compression. If this is unchecked, JPEG will be used instead - which is often smaller, but also of lesser or blurry quality.'; $helptxt['disableHostnameLookup'] = 'This disables host name lookups, which on some servers are very slow. Note that this will make banning less effective.'; $helptxt['search_weight_frequency'] = 'Weight factors are used to determine the relevancy of a search result. Change these weight factors to match the things that are specifically important for your forum. For instance, a forum of a news site, might want a relatively high value for \'age of last matching message\'. All values are relative in relation to each other and should be positive integers.

This factor counts the amount of matching messages and divides them by the total number of messages within a topic.'; $helptxt['search_weight_age'] = 'Weight factors are used to determine the relevancy of a search result. Change these weight factors to match the things that are specifically important for your forum. For instance, a forum of a news site, might want a relatively high value for \'age of last matching message\'. All values are relative in relation to each other and should be positive integers.

This factor rates the age of the last matching message within a topic. The more recent this message is, the higher the score.'; $helptxt['search_weight_length'] = 'Weight factors are used to determine the relevancy of a search result. Change these weight factors to match the things that are specifically important for your forum. For instance, a forum of a news site, might want a relatively high value for \'age of last matching message\'. All values are relative in relation to each other and should be positive integers.

This factor is based on the topic size. The more messages are within the topic, the higher the score.'; $helptxt['search_weight_subject'] = 'Weight factors are used to determine the relevancy of a search result. Change these weight factors to match the things that are specifically important for your forum. For instance, a forum of a news site, might want a relatively high value for \'age of last matching message\'. All values are relative in relation to each other and should be positive integers.

This factor looks whether a search term can be found within the subject of a topic.'; $helptxt['search_weight_first_message'] = 'Weight factors are used to determine the relevancy of a search result. Change these weight factors to match the things that are specifically important for your forum. For instance, a forum of a news site, might want a relatively high value for \'age of last matching message\'. All values are relative in relation to each other and should be positive integers.

This factor looks whether a match can be found in the first message of a topic.'; $helptxt['search_weight_sticky'] = 'Weight factors are used to determine the relevancy of a search result. Change these weight factors to match the things that are specifically important for your forum. For instance, a forum of a news site, might want a relatively high value for \'age of last matching message\'. All values are relative in relation to each other and should be positive integers.

This factor looks whether a topic is sticky and increases the relevancy score if it is.'; $helptxt['search'] = 'Adjust all settings for the search function here.'; $helptxt['search_why_use_index'] = 'A search index can greatly improve the performance of searches on your forum. Especially when the number of messages on a forum grows bigger, searching without an index can take a long time and increase the pressure on your database. If your forum is bigger than 50.000 messages, you might want to consider creating a search index to assure peak performance of your forum.

Note that a search index can take up quite some space. A fulltext index is a built-in index of MySQL. It\'s relatively compact (approximately the same size as the message table), but a lot of words aren\'t indexed and it can, in some search queries, turn out to be very slow. The custom index is often bigger (depending on your configuration it can be up to 3 times the size of the messages table) but it\'s performance is better than fulltext and relatively stable.'; $helptxt['see_admin_ip'] = 'IP addresses are shown to administrators and moderators to facilitate moderation and to make it easier to track people up to no good. Remember that IP addresses may not always be identifying, and most people\'s IP addresses change periodically.

Members are also allowed to see their own IPs.'; $helptxt['see_member_ip'] = 'Your IP address is shown only to you and moderators. Remember that this information is not identifying, and that most IPs change periodically.

You cannot see other members\' IP addresses, and they cannot see yours.'; $helptxt['ban_cannot_post'] = 'The \'cannot post\' restriction turns the forum into read-only mode for the banned user. The user cannot create new topics, or reply to existing ones, send personal messages or vote in polls. The banned user can however still read personal messages and topics.

A warning message is shown to the users that are banned this way.'; $helptxt['posts_and_topics'] = ' '; ?>