Chapter 6. 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

Making Your Board Multi-Lingual

phpBB is developed to support multiple languages in the same board. The whole interface (screens, ...

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