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vichan - A lightweight and full featured PHP imageboard.
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About
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vichan is a free light-weight, fast, highly configurable and user-friendly
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imageboard software package. It is written in PHP and has few dependencies.
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vichan is a fork of (now defunc'd) [Tinyboard](http://github.com/savetheinternet/Tinyboard),
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a great imageboard package, actively building on it and adding a lot of features and other
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improvements.
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Support and announcements: https://engine.vichan.net/
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Requirements
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1. PHP >= 5.4 (we still try to keep compatibility with php 5.3 as much as possible)
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PHP 7.0 is explicitly supported.
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2. MySQL/MariaDB server
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3. [mbstring](http://www.php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php)
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4. [PHP GD](http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.image.php)
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5. [PHP PDO](http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pdo.php)
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We try to make sure vichan is compatible with all major web servers and
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operating systems. vichan does not include an Apache ```.htaccess``` file nor does
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it need one.
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### Recommended
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1. MySQL/MariaDB server >= 5.5.3
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2. ImageMagick (command-line ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick preferred).
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3. [APC (Alternative PHP Cache)](http://php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php),
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[XCache](http://xcache.lighttpd.net/) or
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[Memcached](http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.memcached.php)
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Contributing
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------------
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You can contribute to vichan by:
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* Developing patches/improvements/translations and using GitHub to submit pull requests
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* Providing feedback and suggestions
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* Writing/editing documentation
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If you need help developing a patch, please join our IRC channel.
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Installation
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1. Download and extract vichan to your web directory or get the latest
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development version with:
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git clone git://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan.git
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2. Navigate to ```install.php``` in your web browser and follow the
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prompts.
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3. vichan should now be installed. Log in to ```mod.php``` with the
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default username and password combination: **admin / password**.
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Please remember to change the administrator account password.
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See also: [Configuration Basics](http://tinyboard.org/docs/?p=Config).
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Upgrade
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-------
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To upgrade from any version of Tinyboard or vichan:
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Either run ```git pull``` to update your files, if you used git, or
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backup your ```inc/instance-config.php```, replace all your files in place
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(don't remove boards etc.), then put ```inc/instance-config.php``` back and
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finally run ```install.php```.
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To migrate from a Kusaba X board, use http://github.com/vichan-devel/Tinyboard-Migration
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Support
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--------
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vichan is still beta software -- there are bound to be bugs. If you find a
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bug, please report it.
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If you need assistance with installing, configuring, or using vichan, you may
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find support from a variety of sources:
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* If you're unsure about how to enable or configure certain features, make
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sure you have read the comments in ```inc/config.php```.
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* Check out an [official vichan board](http://int.vichan.net/devel/).
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* You can join vichan's IRC channel for support
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[irc.6irc.net #vichan-devel](irc://irc.6irc.net/vichan-devel)
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### Tinyboard support
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vichan is based on a Tinyboard, so both engines have very much in common. These
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links may be helpful for you as well:
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* Tinyboard documentation can be found [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20121016074303/http://tinyboard.org/docs/?p=Main_Page).
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Donations
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Do you like our work? You can motivate us financially to do better ;)
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* Bitcoin: 1GjZEdLaTQ8JWVFGZW921Yv4x59f9oiZME
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You can also ask us to develop some feature specially for you <3. Join our IRC
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channel and ask for a quote (there are a few of us, who work with the codebase
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and are skilled enough to develop such features pretty quickly).
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CLI tools
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There are a few command line interface tools, based on Tinyboard-Tools. These need
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to be launched from a Unix shell account (SSH, or something). They are located in a ```tools/```
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directory.
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You actually don't need these tools for your imageboard functioning, they are aimed
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at the power users. You won't be able to run these from shared hosting accounts
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(i.e. all free web servers).
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Localisation
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Wanting to have vichan in your language? You can contribute your translations at this URL:
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https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/tinyboard-vichan-devel/
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Oekaki
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------
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vichan makes use of [wPaint](https://github.com/websanova/wPaint) for oekaki. After you pull the repository, however, you will need to download wPaint separately using git's `submodule` feature. Use the following commands:
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```
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git submodule init
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git submodule update
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```
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To enable oekaki, add all the scripts listed in `js/wpaint.js` to your `instance-config.php`.
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WebM support
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Read `inc/lib/webm/README.md` for information about enabling webm.
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vichan API
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vichan provides by default a 4chan-compatible JSON API. For documentation on this, see:
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https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan-API/ .
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License
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--------
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See [LICENSE.md](http://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/blob/master/LICENSE.md).
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