Installation of Donation Meter First copy all the files to your site Be sure to keep all the files in the folders they are in and upload them to the root of your site Once complete open auth.php and dbsettings.php and enter in the database access info into the appropriate places within both files Upload to your site in the root folder (or sub folder and edit the sub folder settings in dbsettings.php) Visit your site and load the page yoursite.com/install.php or yoursite.com/subfolder/install.php which should be in the root of your site Once done the database will be installed and you can go into your admin area by visiting the admin folder yoursite.com/admin/ or yoursite.com/subfolder/admin If you install to a subfolder instead of root of your site add this to your .htaccess file RewriteRule ^pdm/(.*)$ /subfoldernamehere/pdm/$1 You will be directed to login usign the username: admin and the password: password If you wish to change these values you can do so from within the database authuser table Once your are logged in successfully you can generate a new meter, filling out several options to set up what your meter will be for and look like and how much your trying to raise etc You will then have options to place the flash code on your site in 3 different shapes You can also manually add donations, edit your meter, reset/delete all the donation info and delete the meter completely from within the admin area, you can create many meters from within admin To add/remove the available background images for each meter shape simply create graphics similar to the ones provided with the script, the same shape and size and follow the same naming rule files should be named background1.jpg background2.jpg background3.jpg etc in both horizontal and verticle meter folders and should be named background1.gif background2.gif background3.gif etc in the circle folder Be sure the background images for the circular meter are in gif format with transparent backgrounds and are of exactly the same size and shape as the example provided, for them to fit and work properly with the flash design Same goes for the graphics in the other two folders be sure they are all jpg format and the correct width and height as the ones provided In the dbsettings.php file you will find 3 variables you can edit, they represent how many graphics you have in each of the folders, so if you have 15 graphics in the horizontal 5 in the circle and 10 in the vertical, then you would enter those values here so that the admin area knows which images to choose from when adding or updating a meter Any questions get in touch