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phpBB: A User Guide Table Of Contents


Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to phpBB
Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring phpBB
Chapter 3: User Experience: Visitors
Chapter 4: User Experience: Moderators and Administrators
Chapter 5: Customizing Your Forum
Chapter 6: Forum Administration
Index
  • 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
      • 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

                 




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