free templates: Fully modded phpBB 3.0.7-pl with 13 Styles!

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Fully modded phpBB 3.0.7-pl with 13 Styles!

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What is MS Modded phpBB3?

- MS Modded phpBB3 is a fully modifed phpBB3, and is put together for those starting new forums.
- It may be an easier option as alot of modifications that forum admin use are already integrated with the superb phpBB script.
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Is it easy to install?

- Very easy. Full install instructions can be found here.
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Which phpBB3 Styles modded?

- 13 styles are modded including Prosilver in package.
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Is MS Modded phpBB3 affiliated with phpBB?

- No, phpBB is situated at phpBB.com, and the phpBB group are in no way affiliated with MS Modded phpBB3.
- All their licenses can be found in the docs folder on download.

Modifications list:

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1. Advertisement Management
2. Anti All Uppercase
3. Custom Header Logo
4. Favicon
5. List Subforums In Columns
6. Prime Quick Reply
7. Prime Quick Style
8. Prime Trash Bin
9. Prime Self Topics
10. Highslide
11. Email on Birthday
12. Change Users Post Count
13. Contact board administration
14. Mod Message 1.0.0
15. New Topic Button In Topic
16. Last Posts Titles
17. FAQ Manager
18. Rules page
19. Universal No Avatar
20. Sitemap FX
21. Ban users by x warnings
22. PM Spy
23. Forum SEO
Description:
Forum SEO will let you use different forum description on index and viewforum.
Often we use short descriptions on index, else it will look messy.
The same description is displayed on viewforum. Thats not wise SEO.
We want at better description on viewforum, something the search engine can use to index our forums.
The description can also be used in the meta tag.
We will also make an improvement to the keywords meta tag.
Used wise this can be a powerfull SEO tool getting your forums indexed better.
Go to ACP - Forums and type in your descriptions and keywords. Its important that you chose them wisely.

Version: v1.1
Installation level: Easy
Installation time: ~10 minutes

Disclaimer and other notes

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You can redistribute it and/or modify it
This MS Modded PHPBB Forum is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY

PHPBB Docs & Copyright
- Check docs folder

Installation Notes

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Files to edit
* Config.php

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Included files
* Forum folder, phpbb.sql, Installation Notes.txt, Installation Notes.pdf

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Additional MODX files
install.xml, modx.prosilver.en.xml

File copy

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1. Copy: Forum folder
To: Your webspace

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2. Import SQL Base: Open a new database within your Hosting panel, and import 'phpbb.sql'into phpmyadmin

Edits:

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Open: Config.php
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$dbms = 'mysql';
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbport = '';
$dbname = 'PUT_HERE_YOUR_DATABASE_NAME';
$dbuser = 'PUT_HERE YOUR_DATABASE_USERNAME';
$dbpasswd = 'PUT HERE YOUR DATABASE PASSWORD';

Set permissions

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First, make sure the correct permissions are set on the following files:
755 - store/, cache/, files/, images/avatars/upload/
644 - config.php

Step 1.

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1. Log in as admin
Go to your User Control Panel - Profile - Edit Account Settings
Change to your email address and change to a password of your choice.
This is Vital to stop any unauthorised access to your admin section. You will need to specify the old password of "password" at the bottom to make the changes.

Step 2.

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2. Log into the Administration Control Panel (link at the bottom).
On the first tab General, look down to Client communication - Email Settings.
Confirm that the boards email address, was that of what you had just changed in User control panel.
If not, change it, and Submit.

Step 3.

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3. On the General Tab again, look at the main screen.
Now press the 'Run Now' buttons for Reset most users ever online, Reset board’s start date and Purge the Cache.

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4. Change to your domain name in Cookie Settings and Server Settings on the General tab, making sure you put your domain in place of the demo domain.
Remembering also to change to your email address in Email and Settings.

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5. Set permissions for users and groups.

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6. With FAQ Manager edit Rules Page

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7. Edit: Advertisements