phpBB: A User Guide Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring phpBB
• Pre-Installation
• Requirements
• The Attack Plan
• Finishing Pre-Install Touch—The Database
• phpBB Pre-Installation Checklist
• Installation
• Troubleshooting the Installation
• Symptom
• Symptom
• Symptom
• Symptom
• Symptom
• Post-Installation Tasks
• Security Tips
• Finding Help
• Summary

• Chapter 3: User Experience: Visitors
• Overview
• Registration
• Step 1
• Step 2
• Step 3

• Logging In
• Editing Your Profile

• Posting
• Anatomy of a Posting
• Replying
• Starting a New Topic
• Formatting a Posting
• Editing a Posting
• Deleting a Posting

• Searching
• Sending and Receiving Private Messages (PM)
• Voting in Polls
• Staying Current with the Topics
• Viewing Information about Other Users
• Memberlist
• Usergroups
• Who Is Online

• Chapter 4: User Experience: Moderators and Administrators
• Moderator Experience
• 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
• Splitting Topics
• Doing It All Together—The Moderator Control Panel
• Administrator Experience
• Administration Panel Overview
• Forum Admin
• Forum Management
• Who Can Do What—Setting Up Forum Permissions
• Pruning
• Systems Administration Using General Admin Options
• Configuration
• Database Backup and Restore
• Mass Email
• Smilies
• Filtering Words Using Word Censors
• Introduction to User Management
• Editing User Profiles
• Deleting Users
• Permissions
• Banning Users
• Disallowing Users
• Summary

• Chapter 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
• 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
• Editing Other Theme Components
• Allowed Values
• Commonly Used and Altered Elements
• 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
• 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
• Example Modifications
• Moving Elements
• Adding New Elements to Your Forum
• Adding New Languages
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Forum Administration
• Making Your Board Multi-Lingual
• Avatars: Enabling and Configuring
• Managing Smilies
• Smilies' Properties
• Smilies Administration Panel
• Editing or Deleting a Smilie
• Adding New Smilies
• Adding Smilies with a .pak File
• Creating a .pak File
• Assigning Ranks
• Understanding Forum Permissions
• Permission Types and Permission Levels
• Simple and Advanced Mode of Setting Permissions

• Understanding User Permissions
• Usergroups and Group Permissions
• Group Permissions

• Second Look into Database Backups and Restore
• Using phpMyAdmin
• Using MySQL Command-Line Tools

• The Board's Human Side: Flamewars and Banning

• Index