Maian Support v1.3 Documentation
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Information about this script is shown below:
• Add seperate support area departments
• Add individual users to each department
• Grant users one of 3 permission types
• Knowledge Base (Optional)
• File Attachment (Optional)
• Set allowable file types and max size for attachment
• Auto cron function to close unanswered tickets after certain time
• Auto zip attachments (Optional)
• Easily change ticket status and other ticket options
• Edit/delete replies
• Option for support people to contact each other via admin area
• Ability to search ticket database
• Template driven system utilising the Savant2 template engine
• Utilises BB code in ticket comments
• Tickets show response time between posts in days, hrs & mins
• No user login required to view or create tickets
• Adds database prefix for people with only 1 database
• Live Support Module (Optional)
• Add user signatures to appear at the bottom of all tickets
• Enable/disable e-mail notification for users
• Ability for admin to go straight to ticket after log in to save time
• Administrators can view users response times at a glance
• Captcha code implementation for spam prevention
• Time offset feature
• Merge ticket to another ticket with optional notification
• Ban filters (Optional)
• Admin tools to purge old tickets/attachments older than specified time
• Permanently close tickets that visitor cannot re-open
• SMTP mail settings
This script was designed and coded using the following applications:

• PSPad: (Programming/Coding)
• Photo Impact XL: (Graphics)
• AAA Logo: (Graphics)

Musical inspiration provided by:

• Namie Amuro
• Garnet Crow
• Kaira Gong
• Ayumi Hamasaki

• Script Version: v1.3
• Originally Released: 10 September 2005
• This Version Released: 24 March 2007
• Browser Testing: IE7, Opera 9.01, Firefox 2.0.0.1
• Local Server Testing: Apache server running PHP v5.2.0, MySQL 5.0.27-nt
• Production Server Testing: Apache server running PHP v4.4.4, MySQL 4.1.21-standard
• PHP Error Reporting set to E_ALL for development.

Note that where there was a slight design descrepancy in the browsers, we favoured the look in Firefox.
We are grateful to the following companies/individuals who`s free open source code helped during the creation of this script:

• Erik Bosrup (Overlib)
• Rochak Chauhan (.ZIP Compression Class)
• Paul M. Jones (Savant 2)
• Edward Eliot (Captcha Class)
• dhtmlgoodies (Switch Code)
• Brent R. Matzelle (PHP Mailer)
• John Davenport Scheuer (Omni Slide Menu Script)
• Amir Salihefendic (Greybox Pop Up)
• Brady Vercher (Pagination Class)
For the script history, open the following file in a text editor:

docs/history.txt
For the licence information, open the following file in a text editor:

docs/licence.txt

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the docs/license.txt file for more information.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT remove the link in the footer. Keep this script free for everyone.

If you wish to remove the copyright information, you should contact us: support@maianscriptworld.co.uk

Thank you!
If you would like to send us a translation of this script, please e-mail it to us at: support@maianscriptworld.co.uk

To view or download available language packs for Maian Support v1.3 visit: http://www.maianscriptworld.co.uk/scripts_support.html
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