How To Load Board18 Game Boxes

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How to load a new BOARD18 game box using Linux

These instructions assume that you already have a BOARD18 web site. See How To Create a BOARD18 Web Site if you don't yet have one.

Perform these steps on your local PC

  • Browse to the Download Game Boxes page and find the game box that you want.
  • Download the zip file for that game box.
  • Using FTP or SCP, move this zip file to your web server.

Perform these steps on your Linux web server

  • Extract the zip file into your shell root directory.
  • Move the sub directory [which contains the image files] to the images sub directory of your web root directory.
  • Move the .json file to the control sub directory of the utility directory.
  • Change to the utility directory.
  • Load the control file for the game box by entering on the command line:
 
php loadGameBox.php control/boxname.json

where boxname is name of the .json file for the new game box.

  • You should see an output that looks something like this:
 
Successfully created game box table row 5.
The box name is 1826.
The version is REP01.
The author is Rich Price.
The date is 2013-07-15 09:26:48.

How to load a new BOARD18 game box using Windows

If you have a Windows environment please modify the above Linux instructions, test them and then enter them here.

How to load a new BOARD18 game box using a MAC

If you have a MAC environment please modify the above Linux instructions, test them and then enter them here.

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