New install lacks smf_api.php (problem?)

[Francoise]

Hello,

I'm a newcomer to the world of SMF, but am hoping to have a long and loving relationship with it.    

To get started, I first tried downloading from this site, and then uploading to my site.  That seemed to go fine. 

All the stuff about the MySQL database was making me a little nervous, though, so I then installed (to a different folder, of course) using Fantastico.   (I also upgraded this installation from 1.1.11 to 1.1.12.)

I'm using the forum that Fantastico installed, and it seems to work nicely, but with a couple of oddities.   The most salient one is that the second (Fantastico) installation does not have two files in its directory:  smf_api.php and smf_dbreset.php.   

Does anyone know why these two files would be missing?  would it be okay if I just move them from the 'other' directory into the second (Fantastico) one?   

Thanks for any help you can give me. 

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Unless I'm mistaken, the installation package should not include either of those files actually. smf_api.php is a tool available separately from http://download.simplemachines.org/?tools and I'm unsure of what smf_dbreset.php is

[Francoise]

Thank you.  That's very helpful.   So it looks like it would be okay to just add smf_api.php to my installation.   

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

If you need it for something, then yes just adding it there should be fine.