More Options:
- Permissions: Under this you can make sub forums in hidden, private, only to administrators, so that, for example, only have access to such a group of people
- General > Backup database: Allows you to export data from MySQL forum to make a backup, transfer the forum to another site, etc., either through the Restore the database or from the phpMyAdmin
- General > Mass Mail: Allows you to send an email to all registered users of the forum. Be careful with this if it is considered spam. Moreover, many free web space do not allow sending emails that
- General > censored words: This is particularly useful for moderating spam or abuse etc in the forum, since you may use a forbidden word one to one insults or spam websites to do so, and thus censor
- User Management: Here you can tweak various aspects of registered users, such as email, rank in the forum, etc.
- User Management > Permission: We can make here Moderators Sub forums users in the forum administrators, giving them access to a private forum, etc.
- User Management > Ranges: You can define specific ranges and honorific for users, or also make special ranges for the number of posts:
Database Settings
Your Database Name - the name that you created the database through the hosting administration panel
Database Username - the name of the user you created the database (or your hosting login)
Database Password - password for the database you created
Administrator Username - any name, inventing themselves (for example, Admin)
Administrator Password - random password, inventing themselves
Follow the instructions. Sometimes the forum cannot be put on the server created config, so it offers you to write it on your computer. Agree, specify a location on your hard drive. And then go to FTP to the server and copy the recorded file in the root directory of the forum. Now everything is in place.
For testing open your browser and type admincp in the end of url and hit enter This is the forums admin panel. Now click on the link configuration and fill out the required fields, such as the address of the site / forum, its short name. Then, under Forums link Manage page will create, edit and delete forums. After that, you can set a group of users, emoticons, avatars, censor, as well as tables and background color of the forum, the path to the backgrounds. It is possible to manage users, backup and restore databases, bulk mailing and other useful features and bells and whistles.
Manage phpbb Themes
If you wish to change the design of the forum, then you must use these options:
1. The path to the logo image files in the forum is:
CODE]forum / templates / SubSilver / images / logo_phpBB.gif [/CODE]
2. The top and bottom of the forum changes in these files:
Code:
forum / templates / SubSilver / overall_header.tpl
Code:
forum / templates / SubSilver / overall_footer.tpl
3. Backgrounds-fill are here with these names:
Code:
forum/templates/SubSilver/images/cellpic1.gif
Code:
forum/templates/SubSilver/images/cellpic2.jpg
Code:
forum/templates/SubSilver/images/cellpic3.gif
Code:
forum / templates / SubSilver / images / cellpic.gif
through the administration interface forum You can change their names (including extensions, of course).
How deal with Spam in phpbb
Fighting spam on the Internet does not stop, and security software developers have come up with new methods. Since the manual moderation of posts the members too costly, the best way to protect against automated spam technology has become Captcha. The method allows to protect the web site of the robot attempts to download a file or send a message using a random combination of symbols and numbers entered in the appropriate field on the page. Captcha is normally a fuzzy picture with symbols, to recognize that until recently could only be men.
The smaller the number of characters, the easier the bot, and the possibility of manipulation sessions and gives the program does have access to classified information, against the background of what seems a simple CAPTCHA breaking. The modified module captcha, not only protects the life of bots or junk e-mail, but also generates income from advertising.
Graphic protection, that is, moving objects and distorted characters the most difficult for recognition programs, bots spent on multiple scan for the mathematical model (with its subsequent comparison with the original) a lot of resources. At the moment CPCH.RU offers over 20 types of graphics protection module flash captcha
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