phpBB: A User Guide

Jeremy Rogers, Stoyan Stefanov

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Année: 2006
• ISBN:
  9781904811916
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Informatik
• Sous-sujet: Informationstechnologie

This book takes a practical, hands-on approach to phpBB. Packed with sections stepping you through tasks, this book is the ideal guide to learning phpBB. This book is ideal if you are just starting with online communities and want a powerful and free tool. No experience of web programming is required.

phpBB: A User Guide

Stoyan Stefanov

Jeremy Rogers

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Table of Contents

phpBB:A User Guide

Credits

About the Authors

Preface

What This Book Covers

Conventions

Reader Feedback

Customer Support

Downloading the Example Code for the Book

Errata

Questions

1. Introduction to phpBB

Online Communities

Building the Community—The Tools

The Name

The Environment

Why phpBB?

History

Development

Example phpBB Sites

A Standard phpBB Layout

Standard Sites with Different Templates

Sites with Standard Style and Modified Features

GaiaOnline

Summary

2. Installing and Configuring phpBB

Pre-Installation

Requirements

The Attack Plan

Time For Action—Setting Up the Environment on Your Local Computer

Finishing Pre-Install Touch—The Database

Setting Up the Database for Local Installations

Time For Action—Creating the Forum Database with phpMyAdmin

What Just Happened

Time For Action—Creating the Forum Database Using the Command Prompt

Setting Up the Database for Remote Installations

phpBB Pre-Installation Checklist

Installation

Troubleshooting the Installation

Symptom

Reason

Solution

Symptom

Reason

Solution

Symptom

Reason

Solution

Symptom

Reason 1

Solution

Reason 2

Solution

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

What Just Happened?

Basic Configuration

Time For Action—Initial Configuration Using the Administration Panel

What Just Happened?

Setting Up the avatars Directory

Security Tips

Administrator Password

Disallow Remote Connections to the Database

MySQL Account

config.php

.htaccess Protection for the Administration Panel

Finding Help

Summary

3. User Experience: Visitors

Overview

Registration

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Logging In

Editing Your Profile

Time For Action—Creating and Editing "The Dude" Profile

What Just Happened?

Posting

Anatomy of a Posting

Replying

Starting a New Topic

Formatting a Posting

Time For Action—Formatting a Post

What Just Happened

Editing a Posting

Deleting a Posting

Searching

Sending and Receiving Private Messages (PM)

Time For Action—The Dude PMs the Administrator

What Just Happened?

Voting in Polls

Staying Current with the Topics

Viewing Information about Other Users

Memberlist

Usergroups

Who Is Online

4. UserExperience: Moderators and Administrators

Moderator Experience

Time For Action—Assigning Moderator Privileges to a User

What Just Happened?

Managing Postings

Editing and Deleting

Editing the First Posting in a Topic

Viewing Poster’s IP Address

Managing Topics

Deleting, Locking, and Unlocking Topics

Moving Topics

Time For Action—Creating a Forum

What Just Happened?

Splitting Topics

Doing It All Together—The Moderator Control Panel

Administrator Experience

Administration Panel Overview

Forum Admin

Forum Management

Creating New Forums and Categories

Time For Action—Creating a New Category

What Just Happened

Time For Action—Creating a New Forum

What Just Happened

Fine Tuning Existing Forums and Categories

Editing

Deleting

Changing Display Order

Time For Action—Tweaking Display Order

What Just Happened

Using the Resync Options

Who Can Do What—Setting Up Forum Permissions

Time For Action—Setting Forum Permissions in Simple Mode

What Just Happened?

Pruning

Time For Action—Pruning a Forum

What Just Happened?

Systems Administration Using General Admin Options

Configuration

Database Backup and Restore

Time For Action—Backing Up Your Board Data

What Just Happened

Time For Action—Restoring Your Database from a Backup Copy

What Just Happened

Mass Email

Smilies

Filtering Words Using Word Censors

Time For Action—Creating a Word Filter

What Just Happened

Introduction to User Management

Editing User Profiles

Deleting Users

Permissions

Banning Users

Disallowing Users

Summary

5. Customizing Your Forum

phpBB Styles

Structure of a Style

Style Elements

Style Storage

Editing phpBB Files

Installing a New Style

Creating a Copy Style

Time For Action—Creating a Copy Style

What Just Happened?

Installing One Element at a Time

Troubleshooting

Style Does Not Appear in Administration

Configuration File Cannot Be Opened

Removing an Installed Style

Create or Customize

Customizing through the Stylesheet

Editing the Stylesheet in the Admin Panel

Time For Action—Editing the Stylesheet

What Just Happened?

Editing Other Theme Components

Allowed Values

Commonly Used and Altered Elements

Table Cell Colors

Font Colors

Changing CSS Styles to Change the Look of Your Site

Using External Stylesheets

Customizing through Images

Installing New Images to Change the Look of Your Site

Hacking phpBB

MODs and Hacks

phpBB Modification

Installing a Modification

Time For Action—Installing a Small Modification

What Just Happened?

Installing a Downloaded Modification

The Copy Action

The SQL Action and Editing the Database

The Open Action

The Find Action

The Addition Actions

The In-Line Actions

The Last Action

The Trouble with Templates

Uninstalling Modifications

Time For Action—Uninstalling a Small Modification

What Just Happened?

Removing Other Changes

Example Modifications

Moving Elements

Adding New Elements to Your Forum

Time For Action—Adding a Menu Link

What Just Happened?

Adding New Languages

Summary

6. Forum Administration

Making Your Board Multi-Lingual

Time For Action—Adding Spanish Support to Your Forum

What Just Ha...