Quick Start Guide
A quick 8-point guide to get you started with FPA. This guide assumes that your are already familiar with common internet tools and applications.
Administrator Guide
A more comprehensive guide covering all FPA features & functions which may be useful for inexperienced users, but may include more information than the average user requires.
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The Quick Start Guide assumes that you are familiar with general internet and web-based activities such as, File Compression utilities, File Transfer software (FTP), Hosting Control Panels, Web Bowsers and Posting in the Joomla! Forum.
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cloud_download Download the FPA package
Download the latest FPA release from this site, or access any beta releases if preferred from the FPA Project on Github.
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Download Latest FPA
View All FPA Releases
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unarchive Extract the FPA package
Extract the FPA package file (.tar.gz or .zip) with your Operating Systems utility or an installed compression application.
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trending_up Upload the FPA script file
Locate the fpa-en.php file in the unarchived FPA Package folder and transfer or copy it to your sites web-root (/) directory.
The same location where you see the "administrator/" folder and configuration.php file.
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devices Run the FPA script
Go to your domain, appending the FPA script to the URL: https://www.domain.tld.cc/fpa-en.php.
Review the FPA on-screen report, it may have highlighted your problem already.
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Internet Connection
Web-Browser
emoji_objectsTIP: WinSCP Users - uncheck/disable "Preserve Timestamp" in the session options to avoid auto-delete issues.
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view_list Generate FPA post data
Click the Click Here To Generate Post button, or choose options and then click the Generate Post button to build the Forum Post data.
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Internet Connection
Web-Browser
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file_copy Prepare your forum post
Copy the Forum Post BBCode Output from FPA. Login to your Joomla! Forum account and create a new forum post or a reply to an existing post.
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Internet Connection
Web-Browser
Joomla! Forum Account
emoji_objectsTIP: If privacy is a concern, please sanitise the post data before publicly posting to the forum.
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settings Forum post settings
Click 'Full Editor & Preview' and go to the Options tab. Select 'Disable smilies'. Make sure that 'Disable BBCode' is not selected.
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Internet Connection
Web-Browser
Joomla! Forum Account
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forum Post the FPA output data
Paste the previously copied FPA content in to your post or reply and click the 'Submit' button.
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Internet Connection
Web-Browser
Joomla! Forum Account
FPA Project Notices & Errata
Developers & Contributors
The FPA script has been developed by, and is copyright of the following contributors;
Russell Winter, Phil DeGruy, Claire Mandville, Sveinung Larsen & Bernard Toplak. Visit the FPA Github Project.
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Forum Post Assistant documentation is developed by, and copyright the FPA Project and published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. NO WARRANTIES ARE GIVEN. The FPA Project and it's members are not responsible for any ommisisons, errors or innacuracies.
You may Share and Adapt our documentation with Attribution under ShareAlike licensing with No additional restrictions applied, even commercially.
FPA Licensing & Disclaimer
Forum Post Assistant script comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software; and covered under the GNU GPLv2 or later license.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For details read the LICENSE file included in the download package with this script. A copy of the license may also be obtained at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.