How To Load Board18 Game Boxes

How to load new BOARD18 game boxes using the Administration - Load Game Box feature

These instructions assume that you are an administrator or author of a BOARD18 web site.

Perform these steps on your local PC

• Browse to the Download Game Boxes WIKI page and find the game boxes that you want.
• Download the zip file for each of these game boxes.

Perform these steps on your web browser

• Sign on to BOARD18.
• Select MENU-Administration.
• On left panel of Administration screen, select Load Game Box.
• Now you can follow the instructions in the Game Box Upload Process section of the BOARD18 Author's Guide to do any number of uploads.

How to load a new BOARD18 game box using Linux

Note: This procedure is depricated. It will soon be removed.

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 this 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