Authored by members of the phpBBHacks.com Support Team and Community!
Foreword by Patrick O'Keefe, Administrator/Webmaster - phpBBHacks.com.
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About the Authors
Stoyan Stefanov
is a web developer and a project manager from Montreal, Canada.
He has studied in the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
and McGill University, Montreal. He has more than 5 years of
professional web development experience and has worked on award
winning websites for companies of all sizes - from multinational
corporations to two man startups. He volunteers his spare time
administering and programming a Bulgarian speaking phpBB powered
community and contributing to the PHP community through code
and articles.
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Jeremy Rogers
(Thoul) 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, it's applications and related
topics.
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Mike Lothar is
an active phpBB template author that has been around as a web
designer for several years, both as a freelance artist working
for some of the major Danish advertising companies and as a
co-founder of an independent web company. His interest in phpBB
and its templates came fairly late. At the time of this book's
release, his templates had gained wide recognition, used by
a variety of sites ranging from those of U.S. presidential candidates
to those of popular artists and bands.
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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.
In Detail
The book begins with the initial installation and configuration of phpBB
on your system, with troubleshooting tips to help you through. You will then
go on a tour of phpBB and its features, stepping you through the basic tasks,
growing your understanding and familiarizing you with the power of phpBB.
Everybody wants their community to look special and customizing your forum
is the next stop in the book. Beginning with a detailed rundown of templates
and themes, you will then see how to customize your forum by first modifying
existing templates, adding new elements and even creating a new template from
scratch.
The book then goes onto cover further administration of your community, creating
hacks for phpBB, custom PHP programming with phpBB and reference appendices
with more phpBB resources, the phpBB file and directory structure, guides
to the BBCode and permission systems and the phpBB database structure round
off this book.
What You Will Learn From This Book
This book will give you the skills to setup, customize and manage your own
phpBB powered community.
Approach
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.
Who This Book is Written For
This book is written by phpBB enthusiasts for new and intermediate users.
It's ideal if you are just starting with online communities and want a powerful
and free tool or if you've already started with phpBB and want to take it
further. Anyone with a basic knowledge of HTML and a willingness to learn
about phpBB will benefit from this book.
"Building Online Communities with phpBB is an excellent guide
for both beginning and advanced webmasters employing phpBB on
their sites.
Even if you know almost everything about how phpBB works, you
will still be able to learn something from this book."
- Jeremy Rogers
Co-author - Building Online Communities with phpBB
phpBBHacks.com Support Team Member
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"If you are looking for a book to walk you through the
installation and configuration of your phpBB, this is the book
for you. Beyond that, it will teach you how to install hacks,
customize your template, program for phpBB and more. This is
your guide to making phpBB do what you want it to do.
Even if you know your way around phpBB, this book will make
a great point of reference for you."
- Patrick O'Keefe
Administrator/Webmaster - phpBBHacks.com
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