Fresh SMF and TP Will not install - UTF-8 issue

[Ken.]

Glad it worked out.

For future reference;
Doing a manual install is not hard to do and it is a very good learning tool that you can use to become more familiar with the inner working of your forum files.


As for the SMF files being in the package... we don't do 'ready made' files because that would be doing a redistribution of SMF files and we (and you) are not supposed to do that. And besides that, if you had any other mods already installed the ready made files would dump those mods.

[Bocin]

I am glad too and want to say: i dont had to recreate my db! The new install of smf dont deleted the db, and also the admin account wasnt overwritten.

Of course, smf is only freeware, reminds me of the ideological twist between Joomla and SMF, of the further development of a brigde.

Although i dont know what caused my problems, and hope updates will go fine, TP looks very nice and reminds me of Orion, a pre-modded phpBB portal, but i dont know if its available in english too, i am a german and it didnt matter in the past.

Now gladly testing and theming TP