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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Chapter 5:
Forum Administration
In the previous chapters you've read about how your board works and how to customize the way it looks. Some advanced topics were skipped so that you could concentrate on the most important and widely used phpBB features. It's now time to master phpBB, and go through details that will make you a real power-phpBB-admin.

In this chapter you'll learn about:

  • Making your board multi-lingual

  • Configuring avatars

  • Managing smilies

  • Assigning ranks

  • Forum permissions

  • User permissions

  • Usergroups and group permissions

  • Database backups and restore—a second look

  • The human side—moderators, flamewars, and banning

  • Chapter 5: Forum Administration

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    • Making Your Board Multi-Lingual
    • Avatars: Enabling and Configuring
    • Managing Smilies
      • Smilies' Properties
      • Smilies Administration Panel
      • Editing or Deleting a Smilie
      • Adding New Smilies
      • Adding Smilies with a .pak File
      • Creating a .pak File
      • Assigning Ranks
    • Understanding Forum Permissions
      • Permission Types and Permission Levels
      • Simple and Advanced Mode of Setting Permissions
    • Understanding User Permissions
    • Usergroups and Group Permissions
      • Group Permissions
    • Second Look into Database Backups and Restore
      • Using phpMyAdmin
      • Using MySQL Command-Line Tools
    • The Board's Human Side: Flamewars and Banning

 

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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