Building Online Communities with phpBB 2

Building Online Communities with phpBB 2

A practical guide to creating and maintaining online discussion forums with phpBB, the leading free open source PHP/MySQL-based bulletin board

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BOOK DETAILS

Paperback, 360 pages
Released: May 2005
ISBN: 1904811132
Authors: Stoyan
Stefanov, Jeremy
Rogers, Mike Lothar

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About the book...
This book gives you the power to use phpBB to set up and run your own online discussion forums with ease, and develop your own Internet community. 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.

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
The following links will take you to a full Table of Contents and chapter summary.

Introduction
1: Introduction to phpBB
2: Installing and Configuring phpBB
3: A Quick Tour of phpBB
4: Customizing Your Forum Free Chapter
5: Forum Administration
6: Creating Your Own Template
7: Creating a New MOD
8: Programming phpBB
Appendix A: Directory Structure
Appendix B: phpBB Resources
Appendix C: phpBB Code and Permission Cheatsheets
Appendix D: phpBB Database Structure
Index

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Stoyan Stefanov is a web developer and a project manager from Montreal, Canada. He has studied in the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and McGill University, Montreal. He is a Zend Certified Engineer, with more than five years of professional web-development experience and has worked on award-winning websites for companies of all sizes—from multinational corporations to two-man startups.

He volunteers his spare time administering and programming a Bulgarian-speaking phpBB-powered online community, and contributing to the PHP community through code and articles.

Mike Lothar has been around as a web designer for several years, both as a freelance artist working for some of the major Danish advertising companies, and as a co-founder of an independent web company. His interest in phpBB and its templates came fairly late. At the time of this book's release, his templates had gained a wide recognition, used by a variety of sites ranging from those of US presidential candidates to those of artists and bands.

Mike supports modification and personalization of phpBB skins at his community forum, www.mikelothar.com.

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.

ABOUT 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. phpBB short-circuits the need for you to be a web development master in order to create and manage massive online communities.

phpBB handles sites of all sizes, the largest known phpBB-powered site on the Internet handles over 1.5 million members and has 191 million posts to the forums!

ABOUT PACKT PUBLISHING
Packt, pronounced ‘packed,’ published its first book “Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management” in April 2004 and subsequently continued to specialize in publishing focused books on specific technologies and solutions.

Our books and publications share the experiences of your fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today's systems, applications, and frameworks. Our solutions-based books give you the knowledge and power to customize the software and technologies you're using to get the job done. Packt books are more specific and less general than the IT books you have seen in the past. Our unique business model allows us to bring you more focused information, giving you more of what you need to know, and less of what you don't.

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