I should declare – up front – that I have no PHP experience!  So I'm very likely to ask fundamental (dumb?) questions…

From a clean (no previous versions) install – I get the following message on activation…

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class cf_mail in /home/jrpixcom/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cforms/lib_email.php on line 2

My site is at http://JRPix.com.au (and is still functioning) it's hosted on BlueHost and I believe they are running the correct version of PHP…

Can some kind soul give me an idiot's guide to what I have to do to solve this?

Many thanks

JP

Oliver

Thank you for your prompt response – very impressive!

I found a cforms folder in the plugins folder (from previous attempt) and deleted it. I also found 4 files which seemed to have a mention of cforms in them… lib_activate.php, lib_ajax.php, lib_email.php, and lib_options_sub.php

I changed the names to 'xlib…' on each of the 4 files.

Wordpress then indicated that 'lib_email.php' did not exist – so I changed the name back to original.

Then reinstalled cforms 10.5 (no update) – and it currently seems to be working – although I have not as yet inserted my first form – nor have I installed the update.

It's 2am in Munchen (as I type) ! So I will spend some time reading the help file (I don't believe this!) before I attempt my first form…

Is it critical that I install the upgrade? I ask this because I suspect that it was doing this that caused the original problem – my computer seemed to 'hang' during the activation of the upgrade – but this may have been a slow isp connection…

What do you advise?

But so far – so good – thanks for your help

JP

Please do not rename any files in the cforms folder as this may cause all kinds of trouble.

The update is not vital, but certainls advised.

The files in the patch ZIP file should be directly extracted and copied to the cforms folder on your web server. Make sure that the FTP works fine, and it doesn't produce duplicate files.

Upgrade completed – no problems

Thanks for your help Oliver