phpBB: A User Guide

Jeremy Rogers, Stoyan Stefanov

ISBN 10: 1904811914 / ISBN 13: 9781904811916

Published by Packt Publishing Limited, GB, 2023

About this Item

This book takes a practical, hands-on approach to phpBB. Packed with sections stepping you through tasks, this book is the ideal guide to learning phpBB. This book is ideal if you are just starting with online communities and want a powerful and free tool. No experience of web programming is required.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781904811916

Bibliographic Details

• Title: phpBB: A User Guide
• Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited, GB
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904811914
• ISBN 13: 9781904811916
• Binding: Digital
• Edition: Abridged.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 19.05W x 1.02H x 23.5D centimeters 19.05 centimeters width by 1.02 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 313 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This book gives you the power to use phpBB to set up and run your own online discussion forums with ease. The emphasis is on simple, and practical guidance for you to get the most from phpBB. phpBB is a free, open source Internet community application, with outstanding discussion forums and membership management. Written in the PHP scripting language, and making use of the popular MySQL database, phpBB is a standard among web hosting companies throughout the world, and is one of the most widely-used bulletin board packages in the world. This book covers how to: Install and configure phpBB;Manage topics, postings, smilies, and users; Understand phpBB themes and styles. It takes a practical, hands-on approach to phpBB. Packed with sections stepping you through tasks, this book is the ideal guide to learning phpBB if you are just starting with online communities and want a powerful and free tool. No experience of web programming is required.

About the Author

Jeremy Rogers has been developing web-based applications in PHP and other languages for a little more than six years. Shortly after discovering phpBB in early 2002 and deploying it on a video-game website, he began tinkering with and learning about the internal workings of the software. Since then, he has authored dozens of expansions and tutorials related to phpBB. Jeremy currently serves the phpBB community as a phpBBHacks.com Support Team member, a capacity in which he has answered thousands of questions regarding the software, its applications, and related topics.