title: How do i install the cakephp forum plugin by Miles J?
body: <p>Am pretty sure this is a cake 1.3 question - the plugin is not compatible with 2.0</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to install the Miles J plugin for cakephp for forums, which can be found here:
  <a href="http://milesj.me/code/cakephp/forum" rel="nofollow">http://milesj.me/code/cakephp/forum</a></p>
  
  <p>I am struggling with his tutorial though. Sigh.</p>
  
  <p>SO, here is what i have done - </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>downloaded his plugin </li>
  <li>moved his plugin into my /app/plugins/forum folder (so contents are Config, Console...View, webroot, readme.md -- eg /app/plugins/forum/Config)</li>
  <li>downloaded the cakedc utils plugin</li>
  <li>moved this to the /app/plugins/utils folder (so its contents read Controller, Lib, locale...license.txt, readme.md -- eg /app/plugins/utils/Controller)</li>
  <li>done steps "2" and "3" from that page i have linked to above - where "2" starts with: "The forum plugin was designed to interact with an external users..." and "3" with: "Admin routing must be enabled in app/config/core.php."</li>
  <li>And now it gets confusing. He writes about some sort of install program... weren't the last two steps install steps? Are they separate? I don't know! Anyway, I go to run the "cake" command he has, and I get an error ~ "cake not found"</li>
  <li>Navigate to: /cake_install/cake/console (where "cake_install" is the base path for my cake folder, of course)</li>
  <li>Run the cake command... but this time I am totally unsure what the "/path/to/app" Miles writes about means. Is it the path to the plugin (which would make sense to me) or to the cake_install folder (i mean, I am <em>in</em> it already, seems a bit redundso). </li>
  <li>try both of them - each time i get an "Error: Class InstallShell could not be loaded." error, which isn't very useful.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Any ideas on what I should do next? I don't mind doing a manual install, but am i on the right track? Where steps "2" and "3" meant to be run? Is there something simpler to do to get this thing working?</p>
  
  <p>If you don't know, could someone recommend a simple forum plugin/tool/thing i can buy that i can use instead? I am not particularly tied to this forum plugin right now...</p>
  
  <p>cheers!</p>
  
  <p>BONUS QUESTION:
  at the end of step "3" Miles helpfully suggests:
  "It is also a good idea to create a "forum" folder within your app/tmp folder, and chmod it to 777. "</p>
  
  <p>All well and good, but do i <em>just</em> need to make a forum folder, or do i need to, say, tell cakephp to use it? Why is it a good idea to make a forum folder? Should i? What happens if i don't?</p>