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phpBB: A User Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2006
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811916
Pages 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stoyan STEFANOV Stoyan STEFANOV
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Jeremy Rogers Jeremy Rogers
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Development

phpBB is an open-source project and has some specifics as such:

  • The developers are volunteers from around the world. phpBB is an example of a successful open-source project. It has an impressive team list of about 50 people, when most open-source projects have two or three.
  • There’s a community of users who often convert into collaborators.

You might be wondering how the community and the open-source nature of phpBB can help its development. There are a lot of ways, but just to name the major ones:

  • Using and thus testing the software
  • Reporting bugs so they can be fixed by the developers
  • Contributing new features through MODs and hacks, and in this way extending the functionality
  • Contributing new templates for the other phpBB admins to use
  • Supporting other phpBB users with tips and advice
  • Advocating and promoting phpBB, in this way increasing the size of the community

phpBB is under constant development. The work for version 3 is well underway, and in the spirit of this open-source project, the work in progress is available for preview and comments as it’s developed.

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phpBB: A User Guide
Published in: Feb 2006
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781904811916
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