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Set up and run your own discussion forum
- Simple, practical steps to create and manage your own phpBB-powered online community
- Learn from experienced phpBB administrators and enthusiasts to get the most from phpBB
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Table Of Contents
Language English
Paperback 176 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date
February 2006
ISBN 1904811914
ISBN 13 978-1-904811-91-6
Author(s)
Jeremy Rogers, Stoyan Stefanov
Topics and Technologies
PHP/MySQL, Open Source
This book gives you the power to use phpBB to set up and run your own online discussion forums with ease. The emphasis is on simple, and practical guidance for you to get the most from phpBB.
phpBB is a free, open source Internet community application, with outstanding discussion forums and membership management. Written in the PHP scripting language, and making use of the popular MySQL database, phpBB is a standard among web hosting companies throughout the world, and is one of the most widely-used bulletin board packages in the world.
This book is an abridged version of "Building Online Forums with phpBB 2", (ISBN 1904811132), focusing on a complete set of topics to help you set up and run your own phpBB-powered online community.
This book gives you the power to use phpBB to set up and run your own online discussion forums with ease. It takes you through the whole process of setting up your phpBB site, and helps you create, customize, and manage your own online community with phpBB.
Written by experienced phpBB administrators and enthusiasts, the emphasis is on simple and practical guidance for you to get the most from phpBB. Packed with step-by-step examples, this book is your ideal guide to learning phpBB.
Read the full Table Of Contents for phpBB:A User Guide
This book will give you the skills to set up your own phpBB-powered discussion forum and online community:
- Install and configure phpBB
- Manage topics, postings, smilies, and users
- Understand phpBB themes and styles
- Customize the look of your phpBB site
- Master forum permissions
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.
Jeremy Rogers
Jeremy Rogers has been developing web-based applications in PHP and other languages for a little more than six years. Shortly after discovering phpBB in early 2002 and deploying it on a video-game website, he began tinkering with and learning about the internal workings of the software. Since then, he has authored dozens of expansions and tutorials related to phpBB.
Jeremy currently serves the phpBB community as a phpBBHacks.com Support Team member, a capacity in which he has answered thousands of questions regarding the software, its applications, and related topics.
Stoyan Stefanov
Stoyan Stefanov is a Yahoo! web developer, Zend Certified Engineer, book author, and contributor to the international PHP community. He talks regularly about JavaScript, PHP, and other web development topics at conferences and his blog www.phpied.com and also runs a number of other sites, including JSPatterns.com – a site dedicated to exploring JavaScript patterns. Stoyan is the engineering lead of Yahoo's performance optimization tool 'YSlow', as well as other open-source tools and 'PEAR' libraries.
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