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phpBB: A User Guide

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

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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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Chapter 5. Customizing Your Forum

Now that you have installed phpBB and gained some experience with the Administration Control Panel, you are ready to begin altering some more advanced aspects of the forum’s appearance and features. Changing these areas of phpBB will be essential for giving your forum a unique identity that stands out among online forums. The appearance of a forum is mainly controlled by phpBB’s styling system, which manages the colors, images, and visual layout of the forum. Features can be added, removed, or altered by installing modification scripts downloaded from phpBB-related websites.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned about:

  • The basics of a phpBB 2.0 style
  • Correct methods of editing phpBB files
  • How to add and remove styles
  • Common style installation problems
  • Ways to customize a style
  • The benefits of creating and altering styles
  • Methods of changing forum images
  • How to add new forum features
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