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CHAPTER 3
Chapter 3: A Quick Tour of
phpBB
In the
previous chapters you learned about what phpBB is and how to install it.
It is time now to take a closer look at how it actually works and the
kind of features it offers to users, moderators, and administrators.
In this chapter you will learn:
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How phpBB works from a visitor's
perspective
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What the moderator's capabilities are
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How the most popular administration
features work
- Logging In
- Editing Your Profile
- Posting
- Anatomy of a Posting
- Replying
- Starting a New Topic
- Formatting a Posting
- Editing a Posting
- Deleting a Posting
- Searching
- Sending and Receiving Private Messages (PM)
- Voting in Polls
- Staying Current with the Topics
- Viewing Information about Other Users
- Memberlist
- Usergroups
- Who Is Online
- Editing and Deleting
- Editing the First Posting in a Topic
- Viewing Poster's IP Address
- Deleting, Locking, and Unlocking Topics
- Moving Topics
- Splitting Topics
- Doing It All Together - The Moderator Control Panel
- Administrator Experience
- Administration Panel Overview
- Forum Admin
- Forum Management
- Who Can Do What - Setting Up Forum Permissions
- Pruning
- Systems Administration Using General Admin Options
- Configuration
- Database Backup and Restore
- Mass E-Mail
- Smilies
- Filtering Words Using Word Censors
- Introduction to User Management
- Editing User Profiles
- Deleting Users
- Permissions
- Banning Users
- Disallowing Users
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Paperback,
360 pages
Released: May 2005
ISBN: 1904811132
Authors: Stoyan
Stefanov, Jeremy
Rogers, Mike Lothar |
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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
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View the book details
on PacktPub.com
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