SMF2.1:Help.english.php

<?php // Version: 2.1 Alpha 1; Help

global $helptxt;

$txt['close_window'] = 'Close window';

$helptxt['manage_boards'] = ' Edit Boards On this page you can create/reorder/remove boards, and the categories above them. For example, if you had a wide-ranging site that offered information on &quot;Sports&quot; and &quot;Cars&quot; and &quot;Music&quot;, these would be the top-level Categories you\'d create. Under each of these categories you\'d likely want to create &quot;Boards&quot; for topics within each. It\'s a simple hierarchy, with this structure:   Sports - A &quot;category&quot;   Baseball - A board under the category of &quot;Sports&quot;   Stats - A sub-board under the board of &quot;Baseball&quot;     Football - A board under the category of &quot;Sports&quot;    Categories allow you to break down the boards into broad topics (&quot;Cars,	Sports&quot;), and the &quot;Boards&quot; under them allow users to post actual topics. A user interested in Pintos would post a message under &quot;Cars->Pinto&quot;. Administrative functions for this page are to create new boards under each category, to reorder them (put &quot;Pinto&quot; below &quot;Chevy&quot;), or	to delete the board entirely.';

$helptxt['edit_news'] = '   News On this page it allows you to set the text for news items displayed on the Board Index page. Add any item you want (e.g., &quot;Don\'t miss the conference this Tuesday&quot;). Each news item is displayed randomly and should be placed in a separate box. </li>  Newsletters This page allows you to send out newsletters to the members of the forum via personal message or email. First select the groups that you want to receive the newsletter, and those you don\'t want to receive the newsletter. If you wish, you can add additional members and email addresses that will receive the newsletter. Finally, input the message you want to send and select whether you want it to be sent to members as a personal message or as an email. </li>  Settings This page contains a few settings that relate to news and newsletters, including selecting what groups can edit forum news or send newsletters. There is also a setting to configure whether you want news feeds enabled on the forum, as well as a setting to configure the length (how many characters are displayed) for each news post from a news feed. </li> </ul>';

$helptxt['view_members'] = '   View all Members View all members in the board. You are presented with a hyperlinked list of member names. You may click on any of the names to find details of the members (homepage, age, etc.), and as Administrator you are able to modify these parameters. You have complete control over members, including the ability to delete them from the forum. </li>  Awaiting Approval This page is only shown if you have enabled admin approval of all new registrations. Anyone who registers to join your forum will only become a full member once they have been approved by an admin. The section lists all those members who are still awaiting approval, along with their email and IP address. You can choose to either accept or reject (delete) any member on the list by checking the box next to the member and choosing the action from the drop-down box at the bottom of the screen. When rejecting a member you can choose to delete the member either with or without notifying them of your decision. </li>  Awaiting Activation This page will only be visible if you have email or admin activation of new member accounts enabled on the forum. This section will list all members who have still not activated their new accounts. From this screen you can choose to either accept, reject or remind members with outstanding registrations. As above you can also choose to email the member to inform them of the action you have taken. </li> </ul>';

$helptxt['ban_members'] = ' Ban Members SMF provides the ability to &quot;ban&quot; users, which can be a useful course of action against users that have violated the trust of the forum by spamming and trolling, etc. This allows you to exclude users that are detrimental to your forum. As an admin, when you view messages you can see the IP address that the user had at the time of posting. In the ban list, you simply type that IP address in, save, and they can no longer post from that location. You can also ban people through their email address.';

$helptxt['featuresettings'] = ' Features and Options There are several features in this section that can be changed to your preference.';

$helptxt['modsettings'] = ' Modification Settings This page contains any settings added by modifications installed on your forum.';

$helptxt['time_format'] = ' Time Format You have the ability to adjust how the time and date look for yourself. There are a lot of little letters, but it\'s quite simple. The conventions follow PHP\'s strftime function and are described as below (more details can be found at <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/function.strftime.php" target="_blank" class="new_win">php.net</a>). The following characters are recognized in the format string: %a - abbreviated weekday name %A - full weekday name %b - abbreviated month name %B - full month name %d - day of the month (01 to 31) %D * - same as %m/%d/%y %e * - day of the month (1 to 31) %H - hour using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23) %I - hour using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12) %m - month as a number (01 to 12) %M - minute as a number %p - either &quot;am&quot; or &quot;pm&quot; according to the given time %R * - time in 24 hour notation %S - second as a decimal number %T * - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S %y - 2 digit year (00 to 99) %Y - 4 digit year %% - a literal \'%\' character * Does not work on Windows-based servers. ';

$helptxt['live_news'] = ' Live announcements This box shows recently updated announcements from <a href="http://www.simplemachines.org/" target="_blank" class="new_win">www.simplemachines.org</a>. You should check here every now and then for updates, new releases, and important information from Simple Machines.';

$helptxt['registrations'] = ' Registration Management This page contains all the functions that could be necessary to manage new registrations on the forum. It contains up to four pages which are visible depending on your forum settings. These are:   Register new member From this page you can choose to register accounts for new members on their behalf. This can be useful in forums where registration is closed to new members, or in cases where the admin wishes to create a test account. If the option to require activation of the account is selected the member will be emailed an activation link which must be clicked before they can use the account. Similarly you can select to email the user\'s new password to the stated email address. </li>  Edit Registration Agreement This page allows you to set the text for the registration agreement which is displayed when members sign up for your forum. You can add or remove anything from the default registration agreement which is included in SMF. </li>  Set Reserved Names Using this page you can specify words or names which may not be used by your users. </li>  Settings From this screen you can decide on the registration method to use on your forum, as well as other settings related to registration. </li> </ul>';

$helptxt['modlog'] = ' Moderation Log This page allows members of the moderation team to track all the moderation actions that the forum moderators have performed. To ensure that moderators cannot remove references to the actions they have performed, entries may not be deleted until 24 hours after the action was taken.';

$helptxt['adminlog'] = ' Administration Log This page allows members of the admin team to track some of the administrative actions that have occurred on the forum. To ensure that admins cannot remove references to the actions they have performed, entries may not be deleted until 24 hours after the action was taken.';

$helptxt['userlog'] = ' Profile Edits Log This page allows members of the admin team to view changes users make to their profiles, and is available from inside a user\'s profile area.';

$helptxt['warning_enable'] = ' User Warning System This feature enables members of the admin and moderation team to issue warnings to members - and to use a members warning level to determine the actions available to them on the forum. Upon enabling this feature a permission will be available within the permissions section to define which groups may assign warnings to members. Warning levels can be adjusted from a member\'s profile. The following additional options are available:   Warning Level for Member Watch This setting defines the percentage warning level a member must reach to automatically assign a &quot;watch&quot; to the member. Any member who is being &quot;watched&quot; will appear in the watched members list in the moderation center. </li>  Warning Level for Post Moderation Any member passing the value of this setting will find all their posts require moderator approval before they appear to the forum community. This will override any local board permissions which may exist related to post moderation. </li>  Warning Level for Member Muting If this warning level is passed by a member they will find themselves under a post ban. The member will lose all posting rights. </li>  Maximum Member Warning Point per Day This setting limits the amount of points a moderator may add/remove to any particular member in a twenty four hour period. This can be used to limit what a moderator can do in a small period of time. This setting can be disabled by setting to a value of zero. Note that any members with administrator permissions are not affected by this value. </li> </ul>'; $helptxt['error_log'] = ' Error Log The error log tracks every serious error encountered by users of your forum. It lists all of these errors by date which can be sorted by clicking the arrow next to each date. Additionally you can filter the errors by clicking the picture next to each error statistic. This allows you to filter, for example, by member. When a filter is active the only results that will be displayed will be those that match that filter.';

$helptxt['theme_settings'] = ' Theme Settings The settings page allows you to change settings specific to a theme. These settings include options such as the themes directory and URL information but also options that affect the layout of a theme on your forum. Most themes will have a variety of user configurable options, allowing you to adapt a theme to suit your individual forum needs.'; $helptxt['smileys'] = ' Smiley Center Here you can add and remove smileys, and smiley sets. Note importantly that if a smiley is present in one set, it should be in all sets - otherwise, it might get confusing for your users using different sets.

You are also able to edit message icons from here, if you have them enabled on the settings page.'; $helptxt['calendar'] = ' Manage Calendar Here you can modify the current calendar settings as well as add and remove holidays that appear on the calendar.';

$helptxt['cal_export'] = 'Exports a text file in the iCal format for importing into other calendar applications';

$helptxt['cal_highlight_events'] = 'This setting allows you to highlight events on the Mini Calendars, Main Calendar, both places, or disable event highlighting.';

$helptxt['cal_highlight_holidays'] = 'This setting allows you to highlight holidays on the Mini Calendars, Main Calendar, both places, or disable event highlighting.';

$helptxt['cal_highlight_birthdays'] = 'This setting allows you to highlight birthdays on the Mini Calendars, Main Calendar, both places, or disable event highlighting.';

$helptxt['cal_disable_prev_next'] = 'If this setting is checked, the three month blocks on the left hand side of the page will be disabled.';

$helptxt['cal_display_type'] = 'This setting allows you to change the display type of the calendar. Comfortable: makes the rows of the calendar big. Compact: makes the rows of the calendar small.';

$helptxt['cal_week_links'] = 'If this setting is checked, links will be added alongside each week in the calendar.';

$helptxt['cal_prev_next_links'] = 'If this setting is checked, previous month and next month links will be added to the top of each month for easy navigation.';

$helptxt['cal_short_months'] = 'If this setting is checked, month names within the calendar will be shortened. Enabled: '. $txt['months_short'][1]. ' 1 Disabled: '. $txt['months_titles'][1]. ' 1';

$helptxt['cal_short_days'] = 'If this setting is checked, day names within the calendar will be shortened. Enabled: '. $txt['days_short'][1]. ' Disbaled: '. $txt['days'][1];

$helptxt['cal_week_numbers'] = 'If this setting is checked, the first day of every week will have the week number next to that day. Enabled: March 3 - Week 10 Disabled: March 3';

$helptxt['serversettings'] = ' Server Settings Here you can perform some core configuration for your forum. This section includes the database settings, as well as other important configuration items such as caching. Think carefully whenever editing these settings as an error may render the forum inaccessible';

$helptxt['manage_files'] = ' <ul> <li> Browse Files Browse through all the attachments, avatars and thumbnails stored by SMF. </li><li> Attachment Settings Configure where attachments are stored and set restrictions on the types of attachments. </li><li> Avatar Settings Configure where avatars are stored and manage the resizing of avatars. </li><li> File Maintenance Check and repair any error in the attachment directory and delete selected attachments. </li> </ul>';

$helptxt['topicSummaryPosts'] = 'This allows you to set the number of previous posts shown in the topic summary on the reply screen.';

$helptxt['enableAllMessages'] = 'Set this to the maximum number of posts a topic can have to show the all link. Setting this lower than &quot;Maximum messages to display in a topic page&quot; will simply mean it never gets shown, and setting it too high could slow down your forum.';

$helptxt['allow_guestAccess'] = 'Unchecking this box will stop guests from doing anything but very basic actions on your forum - login, register, password reminder, etc. This is not the same as disallowing guest access to boards.';

$helptxt['userLanguage'] = 'Turning this option on will allow users to select which language file they use. It will not affect the default selection.';

$helptxt['trackStats'] = 'Stats: This will allow users to see the latest posts and the most popular topics on your forum. It will also show several statistics, like the most members online, new members and new topics. Page views: Adds another column to the stats page with the number of pageviews on your forum.';

$helptxt['titlesEnable'] = 'Switching Custom Titles on will allow members with the relevant permission to create a special title for themselves. This will be shown underneath the name. For example: Jeff Cool Guy';

$helptxt['topbottomEnable'] = 'This will add go up and go down buttons, so that members can go to the top and bottom of a page	without scrolling.';

$helptxt['onlineEnable'] = 'This will show an image to indicate whether the member is online or offline';

$helptxt['todayMod'] = 'This will show &quot;Today&quot; or &quot;Yesterday&quot; instead of the date. Examples: <ul> <li> Disabled October 3, 2009 at 12:59:18 am</li> <li> Only Today Today at 12:59:18 am</li> <li> Today &amp; Yesterday Yesterday at 09:36:55 pm</li> </ul>'; $helptxt['disableCustomPerPage'] = 'Check this option to stop users from customizing the amount of messages and topics to display per page on the Message Index and Topic Display page respectively.';

$helptxt['enablePreviousNext'] = 'This will show a link to the next and previous topic.';

$helptxt['pollMode'] = 'This selects whether polls are enabled or not. If polls are disabled, any existing polls will be hidden from the topic listing. You can choose to continue to show the regular topic without their polls by selecting &quot;Show Existing Polls as Topics&quot;. To choose who can post polls, view polls, and similar, you can allow and disallow those permissions. Remember this if polls are not working.';

$helptxt['enableVBStyleLogin'] = 'This will show a more compact login on every page of the forum for guests.';

$helptxt['enableCompressedOutput'] = 'This option will compress output in order to lower bandwidth consumption, but it requires zlib to be installed.';

$helptxt['disableTemplateEval'] = 'By default, templates are evaluated instead of just included. This helps with showing more useful debug information in case a template contains an error. On large forums, however, this customized inclusion process may be significantly slower. Therefore, advanced users may wish to disable it.';

$helptxt['httponlyCookies'] = 'Cookies won\'t be accessible by scripting languages, such as JavaScript. This setting can help to reduce identity theft through XSS attacks. This can cause issues with third party scripts but should be on wherever possible.';

$helptxt['databaseSession_enable'] = 'This option makes use of the database for session storage - it is best for load balanced servers, but helps with all timeout issues and can make the forum faster.';

$helptxt['databaseSession_loose'] = 'Turning this on will decrease the bandwidth your forum uses, and make it so clicking back will not reload the page - the downside is that the (new) icons won\'t update, among other things (unless you click to that page instead of going back to it).';

$helptxt['databaseSession_lifetime'] = 'This is the number of seconds for sessions to last after they haven\'t been accessed. If a session is not accessed for too long, it is said to have &quot;timed out&quot;. Anything higher than 2400 is recommended.';

$helptxt['cache_enable'] = 'SMF performs caching at a variety of levels. The higher the level of caching enabled the more CPU time will be spent retrieving cached information. If caching is available on your machine it is recommended that you try caching at level 1 first.';

$helptxt['cache_memcached'] = 'If you are using memcached you need to provide the server details. This should be entered as a comma separated list as shown in the example below: 	&quot;server1,server2,server3:port,server4&quot;  Note that if no port is specified SMF will use port 11211. SMF will attempt to perform rough/random load balancing across the specified servers.'; $helptxt['cache_cachedir'] = 'This setting is only for the smf file-based cache system. It specifies the path to the cache directory. It is recommended that you place this in /tmp/ if you are going to use this, although it will work in any directory';

$helptxt['enableErrorLogging'] = 'This will log any errors, like a failed login, so you can see what went wrong.';

$helptxt['enableErrorQueryLogging'] = 'This will include the full query sent to the database in the error log. It requires error logging to be turned on. Note: This will affect the ability to filter the error log by the error message. ';

$helptxt['log_ban_hits'] = 'If enabled, every time a banned user tries to access the site, this will be logged in the error log. If you do not care whether, or how often, banned users attempt to access the site, you can turn this off for a performance boost.';

$helptxt['allow_disableAnnounce'] = 'This will allow users to opt out of notification of topics you announce by checking the &quot;announce topic&quot; checkbox when posting.'; $helptxt['disallow_sendBody'] = 'This setting removes the option to receive the text of replies, posts and personal messages in notification emails. Often, members will reply to the notification email, which in most cases means the webmaster receives the reply.';

$helptxt['jquery_source'] = 'This will determine the source used to load the jQuery Library. Auto will use the CDN first and if this is not available fall back to the local source. Local will only use the local source, CDN will only load it from the Google CDN network';

$helptxt['compactTopicPagesEnable'] = 'This will just show a selection of the number of pages. Example: &quot;3&quot; to display: 1 ... 4 [5] 6 ... 9 		&quot;5&quot; to display: 1 ... 3 4 [5] 6 7 ... 9'; $helptxt['timeLoadPageEnable'] = 'This will show the time in seconds SMF took to create the page at the bottom of the board.';

$helptxt['removeNestedQuotes'] = 'This will strip nested quotes from a post when citing the post in question via a quote link.';

$helptxt['simpleSearch'] = 'This will show a simple search form and a link to a more advanced form.';

$helptxt['search_dropdown'] = 'This will show a search selection dropdown next to the quick search box. From this you can choose to search the current site, current board (if in a board), current topic (if in a topic) or search for members.';

$helptxt['max_image_width'] = 'This allows you to set a maximum size for posted pictures. Pictures smaller than the maximum will not be affected. This also determines how attached images are displayed when a thumbnail is clicked on.';

$helptxt['mail_type'] = 'This setting allows you to choose either PHP\'s default settings, or to override those settings with SMTP. PHP doesn\'t support using authentication with SMTP (which many hosts now require) so if you want that you should select SMTP. Please note that SMTP can be slower, and some servers will not accept usernames and passwords. You don\'t need to fill in the SMTP settings if this is set to PHP\'s default.';

$helptxt['attachment_manager_settings'] = 'Attachments are files that members can upload and attach to a post. Different sites may use these in different ways, which you can configure here.';

$helptxt['attachmentCheckExtensions'] = 'For some communities, you may wish to limit the types of files that users can upload by checking the extension: e.g. myphoto.jpg has an extension of jpg.';

$helptxt['attachmentExtensions'] = 'If "check attachment\'s extension" above is ticked, these are the extensions that will be permitted for new attachments.';

$helptxt['attachmentUploadDir'] = 'The path to your attachment folder on the server (example: /home/sites/yoursite/www/forum/attachments)';

$helptxt['attachmentDirSizeLimit'] = ' Select how large the attachment folder can be, including all files within it.';

$helptxt['attachmentPostLimit'] = ' Select the maximum filesize (in KB) of all attachments made per post. If this is lower than the per-attachment limit, this will be the limit.';

$helptxt['attachmentSizeLimit'] = 'Select the maximum filesize of each separate attachment.';

$helptxt['attachmentNumPerPostLimit'] = ' Select the number of attachments a person can make per post.';

$helptxt['attachmentShowImages'] = 'If the uploaded file is a picture, it will be displayed underneath the post.';

$helptxt['attachmentThumbnails'] = 'If the above option is selected, this will save a separate (smaller) attachment for the thumbnail to decrease bandwidth.';

$helptxt['attachmentThumbWidth'] = 'Only used with the option &quot;Resize images when showing under posts&quot;, the maximum width to resize attachments down from. They will be resized proportionally.';

$helptxt['attachmentThumbHeight'] = 'Only used with the option &quot;Resize images when showing under posts&quot;, the maximum height to resize attachments down from. They will be resized proportionally.';

$helptxt['attachmentDirFileLimit'] = 'Max number of files per directory help text';

$helptxt['attachmentEnable'] = 'This option enables you to configure how attachments can be made. <ul> <li> Disable all attachments All attachments are disabled. Existing attachments are not deleted, but they are hidden from view (even administrators cannot see them). New attachments cannot be made either, regardless of permissions. </li> <li> Enable all attachments Everything behaves as normal, users who are permitted to view attachments can do so, users who are permitted to upload can do so. </li> <li> Disable new attachments Existing attachments are still accessible, but no new attachments can be added, regardless of permission. </li> </ul>';

$helptxt['attachment_image_paranoid'] = 'Selecting this option will enable very strict security checks on image attachments. Warning! These extensive checks can fail on valid images too. It is strongly recommended to only use this option together with image re-encoding, in order to have SMF try to resample the images which fail the security checks: if successful, they will be sanitized and uploaded. Otherwise, if image re-encoding is not enabled, all attachments failing checks will be rejected.';

$helptxt['attachment_image_reencode'] = 'Selecting this option will enable trying to re-encode the uploaded image attachments. Image re-encoding offers better security. Note, however, that image re-encoding also renders all animated images static. This feature is only possible if the GD module is installed on your server.';

$helptxt['attachment_thumb_memory'] = 'The larger the source image (size & width x height), the higher the memory requirements are for the system to successfully create a thumbnail image. Checking this option, the system will estimate the required memory and will then request that amount. If successful, only then will it attempt to create the thumbnail. This will result in fewer white screen errors but may result in fewer thumbnails being created. Leaving this unchecked the system will always try to create the thumbnail (with a fixed amount of memory). This may result in more white screen errors.';

$helptxt['attachmentRecodeLineEndings'] = 'The script will re-code line endings according to your server.';

$helptxt['automanage_attachments'] = 'By default, SMF puts new attachments into a single folder. For most sites this is not a problem, but as a site grows it can be useful to have multiple folders to store attachments in. This option allows you to set whether you manage these folders yourself (e.g. creating a second folder and moving to it when you are ready) or whether you let SMF do it based on criteria, such as when the current directory reaches a given size, or breaking down folders by years or even months on very busy sites.';

$helptxt['use_subdirectories_for_attachments'] = 'Create new directories.';

$helptxt['max_image_height'] = 'As with the maximum width, this option indicates the maximum height a posted image can be.';

$helptxt['avatar_paranoid'] = 'Selecting this option will enable very strict security checks on avatars. Warning! These extensive checks can fail on valid images too. It is strongly recommended to only use this option together with avatar re-encoding, in order to have SMF try to resample the images which fail the security checks: if successful, they will be sanitized and uploaded. Otherwise, if re-encoding of avatars is not enabled, all avatars failing checks will be rejected.';

$helptxt['avatar_reencode'] = 'Selecting this option will enable trying to re-encode the uploaded avatars. Image re-encoding offers better security. Note, however, that image re-encoding also renders all animated images static. This feature is only possible if the GD module is installed on your server.';

$helptxt['karmaMode'] = 'Karma is a feature that shows the popularity of a member. Members, if allowed, can \'applaud\' or \'smite\' other members, which is how their popularity is calculated. You can change the number of posts needed to have a &quot;karma&quot;, the time between smites or applauds, and if administrators have to wait this time as well. Whether or not groups of members can smite others is controlled by a permission. If you have trouble getting this feature to work for everyone, double check your permissions.';

$helptxt['cal_enabled'] = 'The calendar can be used for showing birthdays, or for showing important events happening in your community. Show days as link to \'Post Event\' : This will allow members to post events for that day, when they click on that date Max days in advance on board index : If this is set to 7, the next week\'s worth of events will be shown. Show holidays on board index : Show today\'s holidays in a calendar bar on the board index. Show birthdays on board index : Show today\'s birthdays in a calendar bar on the board index. Show events on board index : Show today\'s events in a calendar bar on the board index. Default Board to Post In : What\'s the default board to post events in? Allow events not linked to posts : Allow members to post events without requiring them to be linked with a post in a board. Minimum year : Select the &quot;first&quot; year on the calendar list. Maximum year : Select the &quot;last&quot; year on the calendar list Allow events to span multiple days : Select this to allow events to span multiple days. Max number of days an event can span : Select the maximum number of days that an event can span. Remember that usage of the calendar (posting events, viewing events, etc.) is controlled by permissions set on the permissions screen.'; $helptxt['localCookies'] = 'SMF uses cookies to store login information on the client computer. Cookies can be stored globally (myserver.com) or locally (myserver.com/path/to/forum). Try this option if you\'re experiencing problems with users getting logged out automatically. Globally stored cookies are less secure when used on a shared webserver (like Tripod). Local cookies don\'t work outside the forum directory so, if your forum is stored at www.myserver.com/forum, pages like www.myserver.com/index.php cannot access the account information. Global cookies are especially recommended when using SSI.php but work well for most sites on their own domain.';

$helptxt['enableBBC'] = 'Selecting this option will allow your members to use Bulletin Board Code (BBC) throughout the forum, allowing users to format their posts with images, type formatting and more.';

$helptxt['time_offset'] = 'Not all forum administrators want their forum to use the same time zone as the server upon which it is hosted. Use this option to specify the time difference (in hours) between the server time and the time to be used for the forum. Negative and decimal values are permitted.';

$helptxt['default_timezone'] = 'The server time zone tells PHP where your server is located. You should ensure that this is set correctly, preferably to the country/city in which the server is located. You can find out more information on the <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php" target="_blank">PHP Site</a>.';

$helptxt['spamWaitTime'] = 'Here you can select the amount of time that must pass between postings. This can be used to stop people from "spamming" your forum by limiting how often they can post.';

$helptxt['enablePostHTML'] = 'This will allow the posting of some basic HTML tags: <ul> <li>&lt;b&gt;, &lt;u&gt;, &lt;i&gt;, &lt;s&gt;, &lt;em&gt;, &lt;ins&gt;, &lt;del&gt;</li> <li>&lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;</li> <li>&lt;img src=&quot;&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;</li> <li>&lt;br /&gt;, &lt;hr /&gt;</li> <li>&lt;pre&gt;, &lt;blockquote&gt;</li> </ul>';

$helptxt['themes'] = 'Here you can select whether the default theme can be chosen, what theme guests will use, as well as other options. Click on a theme to the right to change the settings for it.';

$helptxt['theme_install'] = 'This allows you to install new themes. You can do this from an existing directory by uploading an archive for the theme, or by copying the default theme. Note that the archive or directory must have a <tt>theme_info.xml</tt> definition file.';

$helptxt['enableEmbeddedFlash'] = 'This option will allow your users to use Flash directly inside their posts, just like images. This could pose a security risk, although few have successfully exploited it. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!';

$helptxt['xmlnews_enable'] = 'Allows people to link to <a href="%1$s?action=.xml;sa=news" target="_blank" class="new_win">Recent news</a> and similar data. It is also recommended that you limit the size of recent posts/news because some clients expect the RSS data to be truncated for display.';

$helptxt['hotTopicPosts'] = 'Change the number of posts for a topic to reach the state of a &quot;hot&quot; or &quot;very hot&quot; topic.';

$helptxt['globalCookies'] = 'Makes log in cookies available across subdomains. For example, if... 	your site is http://www.example.com/, and your forum is http://forum.example.com/, using this option will allow you to access the forum\'s cookie on your site. Do not enable this if there are other subdomains (like hacker.example.com) not controlled by you. This option does not function when local cookies are enabled.';

$helptxt['globalCookiesDomain'] = 'When using subdomain independent cookies (global cookies), you can specify which domain should be used for them. This should, of course, be set to your main domain - for example, if you are using forum.example.com and www.example.com, the domain is example.com in this case. You should not put the http:// part in front of it.';

$helptxt['secureCookies'] = 'Enabling this option will force the cookies created for users on your forum to be marked as secure. Only enable this option if you are using HTTPS throughout your site, otherwise it will mean no-one will be able to log in!';

$helptxt['securityDisable'] = 'This disables the additional password check for the administration section. This is not recommended!';

$helptxt['securityDisable_why'] = 'This is your current password (the same one you use to login). The requirement to enter this helps ensure that you want to do whatever administration you are doing, and that it is you doing it.';

$helptxt['securityDisable_moderate'] = 'This disables the additional password check for the moderation section. This is not recommended!';

$helptxt['securityDisable_moderate_why'] = 'This is your current password (the same one you use to login). The requirement to enter this helps ensure that you want to do whatever moderation you are doing, and that it is you doing it.';

$helptxt['emailmembers'] = 'In this message you can use a few &quot;variables&quot;. These are: {$board_url} - The URL to your forum. {$current_time} - The current time. {$member.email} - The current member\'s email. {$member.link} - The current member\'s link. {$member.id} - The current member\'s id. {$member.name} - The current member\'s name (for personalization). {$latest_member.link} - The most recently registered member\'s link. {$latest_member.id} - The most recently registered member\'s id. {$latest_member.name} - The most recently registered member\'s name.';

$helptxt['failed_login_threshold'] = 'Set the number of failed login attempts before directing the user to the password reminder screen.';

$helptxt['loginHistoryDays'] = 'The number of days to keep login history under user profile tracking. The default is 30 days.';

$helptxt['oldTopicDays'] = 'If this option is enabled, a warning will be displayed to the user when attempting to reply to a topic which has not had any new replies for the amount of time, in days, specified by this setting. Set this to 0 to disable the feature.';

$helptxt['edit_wait_time'] = 'The number of seconds allowed for a post to be edited before logging the last edit date.';

$helptxt['edit_disable_time'] = 'The number of minutes allowed to pass before a user can no longer edit a post they have made. Set to 0 disable. Note: This will not affect any user who has permission to edit other people\'s posts. ';

$helptxt['preview_characters'] = 'This option sets the number of available characters for the first and last message topic preview. Note: this only makes the information available to the theme. For it to work, the theme must support the message_index_preview setting.';

$helptxt['posts_require_captcha'] = 'This setting will force users to pass anti-spam bot verification each time they make a post to a board. Only users with a post count below the number set will need to enter the code - this should help combat automated spamming scripts.';

$helptxt['enableSpellChecking'] = 'Enable spell checking. You MUST have the pspell or enchant library installed on your server and your PHP configuration set up to use the installed library. Your server '. ((function_exists('pspell_new')