"A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own online discussion forums with phpBB, the leading free open-source PHP/MySQL-based bulletin board package."
Title from title screen.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Building Online Communities with phpBB 2; Building Online Communities with phpBB 2; Credits; Foreword; About the Authors; Introduction; What This Book Covers; What You Need for Using This Book; Conventions; Reader Feedback; Customer Support; Downloading the Example Code for the Book; Errata; Questions; 1. Introduction to phpBB; Online Communities; Building the Community-The Tools; The Name; The Environment; Why phpBB?; History; Development; Example phpBB Sites; A Standard phpBB Layout; Standard Sites with Different Templates; Sites with Standard Style and Modified Features
Administrator PasswordDisallow Remote Connections to the Database; MySQL Account; config.php; .htaccess Protection for the Administration Panel; Finding Help; Summary; 3. A Quick Tour of phpBB; Visitor Experience; Overview; Registration; Step 1; Step 2; Step 3; Logging In; Editing Your Profile; ; ; Time For Action-Creating and Editing ""The Dude"" Profile; What Just Happened?; Posting; Anatomy of a Posting; Replying; Starting a New Topic; Formatting a Posting; ; Time For Action-Formatting a Post; What Just Happened; Editing a Posting; Deleting a Posting; Searching
Modified phpBB Installations with Custom TemplatesGaiaOnline; Summary; 2. Installing and Configuring phpBB; Pre-Installation; Requirements; The Attack Plan; ; ; Time For Action -- Setting Up the Environment on Your Local Computer; Finishing Pre-Install Touch-The Database; ; ; Setting Up the Database for Local Installations; Time For Action-Creating the Forum Database with phpMyAdmin; What Just Happened; Time For Action-Creating the Forum Database Using the Command Prompt; Setting Up the Database for Remote Installations; phpBB Pre-Installation Checklist; Installation
Sending and Receiving Private Messages (PM); ; Time For Action-The Dude PMs the Administrator; What Just Happened?; Voting in Polls; Staying Current with the Topics; Viewing Information about Other Users; Memberlist; Usergroups; Who Is Online; Moderator Experience; ; ; ; Time For Action-Assigning Moderator Privileges to a User; What Just Happened?; Managing Postings; Editing and Deleting; Editing the First Posting in a Topic; Viewing Poster's IP Address; Managing Topics; Deleting, Locking, and Unlocking Topics; Moving Topics; ; Time For Action-Creating a Forum; What Just Happened?
Troubleshooting the InstallationSymptom; Reason; Solution; Symptom; Reason; Solution; Symptom; Reason; Solution; Symptom; Reason 1; Solution; Reason 2; Solution; Symptom; Reason 1; Solution; Reason 2; Solution; Time For Action-Deleting phpBB Tables using phpMyAdmin; Time For Action-Deleting phpBB Tables Using the Command Prompt; Post-Installation Tasks; ; ; ; Time For Action-Deleting Unneeded Directories; What Just Happened?; Basic Configuration; Time For Action-Initial Configuration Using the Administration Panel; What Just Happened?; Setting Up the avatars Directory; Security Tips
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"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."--Resource description page.