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1. E-Mail Support
If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to send me an email.

2. Issue: If you have & in the URL you are trying to link to
If the URL you are using to frame has an & sign in it, this will cause problems. ezFrameGen works by reading strings in the address bar. The way PHP is set up is to seperate multiple strings by the & sign. So PHP is registering things after the & sign as a new string it should read, not text in the same string as it should.

Instead of of the & sign, use %26. Like this: goto.php?url=http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=video%26file=1700watt_car_stereo.wmv . This should work for ya. Remember the trick only works with ezframegen, NOT in your broswer, so be sure to try it out.

3. Error Messages
Message: Bad Arrays! Number of URL entries: x | Number of ct Entries: x
---The script pulls the URL and the count from two seperate files. If the number of URLs and the number of counts are different, this error will be displayed. This is normally caused because the user modified the data files. If you get this error, and it wasnt from editing the data files, please report the bug.

Message: Bad Password!
---You get this error if the password you typed in doesnt match the password defined in settings.php
---If you are getting this when clicking the 'BACK' link upon reseting the counter, see the explanation to the below message.

Message: Error! Bad password
---If you get this error upon clicking the 'BACK' link AND your counter isnt being reset (when you log back in), then PHP isnt accepting HTTP_GET_VARS, as it should.

Other General PHP Errors
---If you get an error from the php engine, and it is a bug in the script, please contact me.

4. Copy of Help File

ezFrameGen v1.00 PHP
www.atown.org
Creates a frame with an advertisement bar on top and the linked website on the bottom.

-Setup your Tracker Password-
Open 'settings.php' with a plain text editor like Notepad. Edit $Password with the password you want.
Customize 'ad.php' with your ads.

-What this does-
You can use this tool to easily frame the websites your linking. The bar can have advertisements, or a simple "Return to Homepage" button.
It will also count how many times each URL has been viewed, without any setup.

-How to Link to a URL with an Ad Frame-
Here's the syntax to create a frame:
goto.php?url=http://www.google.com
In the above example, google.com would be framed with the default ad bar and ad bar height
Easy, isnt it? To learn how you can designate the default ad bar and ad bar height, see 'Designating the Defaults' below.

-How to Link to a URL without an Ad Frame-
If you want to link to a URL without an ad bar, use the following syntax:
goto.php?url=http://www.google&bar=no
In the above example, it would be redirected to google.com, without an ad frame.

-How to Use the Tracker-
To use the tracker, which counts how many hits each link has recieved, go to login.php. Type in your password (defined in settings.php) and enjoy.
Remember, theres no need to setup URLs before you use them. They will be added to database automatically if they dont exist.
You can also reset a URL's counter if you wish.

-Going a step further-
You can have ezFrameGen use an irregular ad bar and/or ad bar height (instead of the defaults) by defining them right in the URL!

--Specifying an irregular ad bar--
To bypass the default ad bar, use the following syntax:
goto.php?url=http://www.google.com&bar=SecondaryBar.html
In the above example, google.com would be framed with 'SecondaryBar.html' as the ad bar and default ad bar height.

--Specifying an irregular ad bar height--
To bypass the default ad bar height, use the following syntax:
goto.php?url=http://www.google.com&ht=70
In the above example, google.com would be framed with the default ad bar and a 70px ad bar height.

--Specifying both an irregular ad bar and ad bar height--
To bypass both the default ad bar and ad bar height, use the following syntax:
goto.php?url=http://www.google.com&bar=SecondaryBar.html&ht=70
In the above example, google.com would be framed with 'SecondaryBar.html' as the ad bar and a 70px ad bar height.

-Designating the Defaults-
To designate the defaults for your tracker, open 'settings.php' with a plain text editor.

Note: ATown.org and all related people take no responsibility for anything in any manner as a result from the use of this script. Use at your own risk!

Please open 'settings.php' in notepad to give yourself a password (default of 'admin'). You may then open 'login.php' in a browser to login to the control panel.