- phpBB: A User Guide
- phpBB:A User Guide
- Credits
- About the Authors
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to phpBB
- 2. Installing and Configuring phpBB
- Pre-Installation
- Installation
- Troubleshooting the Installation
- Symptom
- Symptom
- Symptom
- Symptom
- Symptom
- Reason 1
- Solution
- Reason 2
- Solution
- Time For Action—Deleting phpBB Tables using phpMyAdmin
- Time For Action—Deleting phpBB Tables Using the Command Prompt
- Post-Installation Tasks
- Time For Action—Deleting Unneeded Directories
- Time For Action—Deleting Unneeded Directories
- Time For Action—Deleting Unneeded Directories
- Time For Action—Deleting Unneeded Directories
- Basic Configuration
- Time For Action—Initial Configuration Using the Administration Panel
- Setting Up the avatars Directory
- Security Tips
- Administrator Password
- Administrator Password
- Administrator Password
- 3. User Experience: Visitors
- Overview
- Registration
- Logging In
- Editing Your Profile
- Time For Action—Creating and Editing "The Dude" Profile
- Time For Action—Creating and Editing "The Dude" Profile
- Time For Action—Creating and Editing "The Dude" Profile
- Searching
- Sending and Receiving Private Messages (PM)
- Time For Action—The Dude PMs the Administrator
- Time For Action—The Dude PMs the Administrator
- Time For Action—The Dude PMs the Administrator
- Time For Action—The Dude PMs the Administrator
- 4. UserExperience: Moderators and Administrators
- Moderator Experience
- Time For Action—Assigning Moderator Privileges to a User
- Time For Action—Assigning Moderator Privileges to a User
- Time For Action—Assigning Moderator Privileges to a User
- Time For Action—Assigning Moderator Privileges to a User
- Administrator Experience
- Administration Panel Overview
- Forum Admin
- Forum Management
- Who Can Do What—Setting Up Forum Permissions
- Pruning
- Time For Action—Pruning a Forum
- Time For Action—Pruning a Forum
- What Just Happened?
- Systems Administration Using General Admin Options
- Configuration
- Database Backup and Restore
- Mass Email
- Smilies
- Filtering Words Using Word Censors
- Time For Action—Creating a Word Filter
- 5. Customizing Your Forum
- phpBB Styles
- Structure of a Style
- Editing phpBB Files
- Installing a New Style
- Creating a Copy Style
- Time For Action—Creating a Copy Style
- Time For Action—Creating a Copy Style
- Time For Action—Creating a Copy Style
- Create or Customize
- Customizing through the Stylesheet
- Customizing through Images
- Hacking phpBB
- MODs and Hacks
- phpBB Modification
- Installing a Modification
- Example Modifications
- Moving Elements
- Adding New Elements to Your Forum
- Summary
- 6. Forum Administration
- Making Your Board Multi-Lingual
- Time For Action—Adding Spanish Support to Your Forum
- Time For Action—Adding Spanish Support to Your Forum
- Time For Action—Adding Spanish Support to Your Forum
- Time For Action—Adding Spanish Support to Your Forum
- What Just Happened?
- Avatars: Enabling and Configuring
- Managing Smilies
- Smilies’ Properties
- Smilies Administration Panel
- Editing or Deleting a Smilie
- Adding New Smilies
- Time For Action—Adding a New Smilie Using an Existing Image
- Time For Action—Adding a New Smilie Using an Existing Image
- Time For Action—Adding a New Smilie Using an Existing Image
- Time For Action—Adding a Custom Smilie
- What Just Happened?
- Adding Smilies with a .pak File
- Time For Action—Adding Smilies Using a .pak File
- Time For Action—Adding Smilies Using a .pak File
- Time For Action—Adding Smilies Using a .pak File
- What Just Happened?
- Creating a .pak File
- Time For Action—Creating a .pak File
- Time For Action—Creating a .pak File
- Time For Action—Creating a .pak File
- What Just Happened?
- Assigning Ranks
- Time For Action—Creating Automatic Ranks
- Time For Action—Creating Automatic Ranks
- Time For Action—Creating Automatic Ranks
- Time For Action—Creating and Assigning a Special Rank
- What Just Happened?
- Understanding Forum Permissions
- Permission Types and Permission Levels
- Permission Types and Permission Levels
- Simple and Advanced Mode of Setting Permissions
- Time For Action—Creating and Fine-Tuning a Private Forum
- Time For Action—Creating and Fine-Tuning a Private Forum
- What Just Happened
- Understanding User Permissions
- Time For Action—Making The Dude a Private User of The Dudes Forum
- Time For Action—Making The Dude a Private User of The Dudes Forum
- Time For Action—Making The Dude a Private User of The Dudes Forum
- Time For Action—Making The Dude a Private User of The Dudes Forum
- What Just Happened?
- Usergroups and Group Permissions
- Time For Action—Creating a New Group
- Time For Action—Creating a New Group
- Time For Action—Creating a New Group
- Time For Action—Creating a New Group
- Time For Action—Editing a Group
- What Just Happened?
- Group Permissions
- Time For Action—Setting Group Permissions
- Time For Action—Setting Group Permissions
- Time For Action—Setting Group Permissions
- Time For Action—Setting Group Permissions
- Time For Action—Setting Group Permissions
- Time For Action—Creating a New Group
- Time For Action—Creating a New Group
- Time For Action—Creating a New Group
- Time For Action—Making The Dude a Private User of The Dudes Forum
- Time For Action—Making The Dude a Private User of The Dudes Forum
- Time For Action—Making The Dude a Private User of The Dudes Forum
- Time For Action—Making The Dude a Private User of The Dudes Forum
- Time For Action—Creating and Fine-Tuning a Private Forum
- Time For Action—Creating and Fine-Tuning a Private Forum
- Permission Types and Permission Levels
- Time For Action—Creating Automatic Ranks
- Time For Action—Creating Automatic Ranks
- Time For Action—Creating a .pak File
- Time For Action—Creating a .pak File
- Time For Action—Creating a .pak File
- Time For Action—Adding Smilies Using a .pak File
- Time For Action—Adding Smilies Using a .pak File
- Time For Action—Adding Smilies Using a .pak File
- Time For Action—Adding a New Smilie Using an Existing Image
- Time For Action—Adding a New Smilie Using an Existing Image
- Time For Action—Adding Spanish Support to Your Forum
- Time For Action—Adding Spanish Support to Your Forum
- Time For Action—Adding Spanish Support to Your Forum
- Time For Action—Adding Spanish Support to Your Forum
- Making Your Board Multi-Lingual
- Time For Action—Creating a Copy Style
- Time For Action—Creating a Copy Style
- Creating a Copy Style
- Time For Action—Pruning a Forum
- Time For Action—Pruning a Forum
- Time For Action—Assigning Moderator Privileges to a User
- Time For Action—Assigning Moderator Privileges to a User
- Time For Action—Assigning Moderator Privileges to a User
- Moderator Experience
- Time For Action—The Dude PMs the Administrator
- Time For Action—The Dude PMs the Administrator
- Time For Action—The Dude PMs the Administrator
- Time For Action—Creating and Editing "The Dude" Profile
- Time For Action—Creating and Editing "The Dude" Profile
- Editing Your Profile
- Administrator Password
- Administrator Password
- Time For Action—Deleting Unneeded Directories
- Time For Action—Deleting Unneeded Directories
- Time For Action—Deleting Unneeded Directories
- Troubleshooting the Installation
phpBB is excellent and powerful forum software in many areas. Customization possibilities are one of the strongest. With the skills and knowledge you’ve gained in this chapter, you can give your forum a complete face-lift or expand its features beyond anything you might have imagined. Specifically, you learned:
- A phpBB style creates the appearance of a forum
- Editing a styles components allows you to change any aspect of the appearance
- Modifications are instructions for changing phpBBs features, and usually have a special format
- How to install and remove styles and modifications downloaded from websites
- Methods of editing any of phpBBs files and solving errors
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