Version 5.01 Released February 2005
Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Nick Jones
Developed by Nick Jones (Digitanium)
PHP-Fusion is a light-weight open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP4. It uses a mySQL database to store all of your site's content which can be managed via a comprehensive secure adminstration system. PHP-Fusion includes the most common features you would expect from other CMS packages including news, articles, forums, polls, shoutbox, comments, ratings & much more.

PHP-Fusion is free to use for non-profit and charity organisations under the terms and conditions of version 2 of the GNU/GPL license. For details please visit www.gnu.org or read the gpl.txt file bundled with this package. You may alter PHP-Fusion any way you want and redistribute it, but if you do so please leave the original author details and copyright intact and offer the source-code for download.

Fresh Installation
First, copy the contents of the install folder to the html folder. Now upload the contents of the html folder to your webserver via FTP in ASCII mode.

1. CHMOD the following folders to 777:
- fusion_admin/db_backups
- fusion_public/attachments
- fusion_public/avatars
- fusion_images
- fusion_images/photoalbum
- fusion_images/articles
- fusion_images/news
2. CHMOD the file fusion_config.php to 777
3. Run the install.php script from your web browser e.g. www.mydomain.com/install.php and follow each step.
4. For security reasons you should delete install.php from your webserver after completing the above.
5. CHMOD fusion_config.php back to 644.

Upgrade from v5.00
WARNING It is highly recommended that you backup your PHP-Fusion site, including your database, prior to upgrading to PHP-Fusion v5.01.

1. Upload the file upgrade.php from the upgrade folder to the fusion_admin folder on your webserver via FTP in ASCII mode.
2. Login to your site as the Super Administrator and go to your Admin Panel, then click Upgrade and follow the on-screen prompts.
3. Upload the contents of the html folder to your webserver via FTP.
4. CHMOD the following folders to 777:
- fusion_images/articles
- fusion_images/news

Notes
Some servers do not require you to CHMOD any files or folders as directed in the above instructions. It is recommended that you try running the installer first, if the write permission tests on the second step fail, you will need to CHMOD the files or folders as directed above.