Installing Madden Career Toolkit

Installing MADCAT isn't terribly involved, but there is a process that needs to be gone through to make sure installation works.

1. Open _mysql.php in a text editor (not in FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc.)
2. You must add the correct values for $mysql_host, $mysql_username, $mysql_password, and $mysql_database. Contact your administrator if you have no idea what to put. I cannot possibly tell you what these values should be.
3. Optionally, you can edit the values in the MADCAT Configuration sections of config.php
4. Open admin/config.php in a text editor
5. Set the $admin_username and $admin_password variables to whatever you'd like to use to log into your admin account (these do not have to be the same as your username/password combo for your FTP or MySQL accounts. This is a username/password combo that you can dream up yourself)
6. Upload everything in the MADCAT .zip file to your host.
7. If you have a copy of MADCAT already on your server, browse to "install/uninstall.php" and uninstall MADCAT from your database. Only uninstall the entire database if you are 110% sure you are the one that created it, and that nothing else resides in the database!
8. Browse to "install/install.php" and follow the instructions. If your host does not allow you to create new databases, you'll have to create MADCAT's tables in your existing database. If this is the case, it is recommended that you use a prefix for your table names. This can be set in _mysql.php (if you change this after having uploaded everything, you'll have reupload _mysql.php)
9. If you run into an error message after trying to install, copy the error message and post on Football Freaks and we'll try to help you get things sorted out
10. If everything is successful, log into your FTP account and delete the install folder!
11. Log into the admin area and begin uploading/importing your logs, as well as setting the "My Team" settings for each year that you upload. Specifics are in the admin area of this documentation.

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