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phpBB: A User Guide

You're reading from phpBB: A User Guide Set up and run your own discussion forum

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2006

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781904811916

Pages 340 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Concepts

Authors (2):

Stoyan STEFANOV

Jeremy Rogers

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Table of Contents (8) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to phpBB FREE CHAPTER

2. Installing and Configuring phpBB

3. User Experience: Visitors

4. UserExperience: Moderators and Administrators

5. Customizing Your Forum

6. Forum Administration

Index

Overview

If somebody hits the forum you’ve just created following the steps from the previous chapter, they are very likely to see something like the following:

Overview

This screenshot shows how phpBB gets shipped, with all defaults and a test posting in a test forum. The only registered user of the board is the admin user that you created while installing. At the top of the screen, next to the phpBB logo, there’s a set of links that go together with some small icon images. These links represent the main navigation of the forum. One of the links is the link to register and become a member of the community. Off we go!

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Authors (2)

Stoyan STEFANOV

Stoyan STEFANOV

Stoyan Stefanov is a Facebook engineer, author, and speaker. He talks regularly about web development topics at conferences, and his blog, www.phpied.com. He also runs a number of other sites, including JSPatterns.com - a site dedicated to exploring JavaScript patterns. Previously at Yahoo!, Stoyan was the architect of YSlow 2.0 and creator of the image optimization tool, Smush.it. A "citizen of the world", Stoyan was born and raised in Bulgaria, but is also a Canadian citizen, currently residing in Los Angeles, California. In his offline moments, he enjoys playing the guitar, taking flying lessons, and spending time at the Santa Monica beaches with his family.

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Jeremy Rogers

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.

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