There was one hiccup however, and it was (1) renaming the automatically created database file to something more user-friendly, and (2) doing a required upgrade.

Number one was easy enough. Although while changing the database location settings on SMF made the whole message board go down, I just had to create a new database with my preferred name (“moradoforums” instead of a jumble of arbitrarily chosen numbers) and import the SQL databse I exported from the originally created database.

Number was a bit more complicated because after executing the upgrade.php file I encountered a problem with the upgrade process, specifically:

ALTER TABLE {$db_prefix}smileys
ORDER BY LENGTH(code) DESC;

Good thing the Simple Machines Knowledge Database had a solution to that problem:

replacing that code with this code:

ALTER TABLE {$db_prefix}smileys
ORDER BY code DESC;

at the “upgrade_1-1.sql” file!!  Simple enough, but be sure you do it slowly and carefully!

So basically, with this new message board, I hope the Rosa Morado Clan can use it to keep in touch wherever you may be!  So please spread the news around to all our family if your reading guys and girls!!  Thanks!!