Help needed with header, footer, and a few settings

[Patrick]

I'm sure you will.

[siremethmimetes]

Greetings creativityunlimited,

After some thought I realized that I think I might know the answers to some of your other questions. If I misunderstood them please inform me.

To edit the copy write information in the footer, simply go into the template directory for the theme that you are using and open overall_footer.html. It is very short, and it should be simple enough to add into the div tag what you want. Remember that many times you will have to clear the cache from the ACP to see any changes made to the templates and images to take effect.

As for criteria to add for new members, there are two things that I am aware of that you could be referring to. One is the text that they agree to with all of the legal mumbo-jumbo. To edit that go into the language directory of your forum, and from thence into the language pack (I think that is the correct term) that you are using (i.e. language/en/). Then open the ucp.php file. Go down to where is says:

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$lang = array_merge($lang, array(
        'TERMS_OF_USE_CONTENT'  => 

There should be several paragraphs of text there that might be familiar to you as the legal mumbo-jumbo that I mentioned. Simply append two <br /> tags before appending your text (remember to not use an editor like Word or Open Office Writer to do this: use Notepad, Gedit, or Vi, or some other simple text editor).

The other thing that you might be referring to is the Custom Profile Fields. To add some of these go into the ACP, and click on Custom Profile Fields under the Users And Groups tab. There will be (should be) a small blank field to enter a name for the new field (only lowercase letters a-z and underscores (_) are allowed, no special characters or spaces), as well as a drop down box with the options for the different kinds of content that it can contain (i.e. numbers, text area, boolean, date, etc.). Enter the information you want and hit enter. Then set your options in the next window. There are several kinds of options, so read them carefully. Then edit the type-specific options (these are dependent upon what kind of data the field is for) and add it!

I hope that was helpful to you. I am just figuring these out myself.

With joy and peace in Christ,
Sir Emeth Mimetes

[lumpy burgertushie]

just for a little extra info here:

the way to tell whether a style is based on subsilver2 or prosilver is to look in the themes folder of the style in question. If it only has one css file named "stylesheet.css" then it is based on subsilver2.

if it has several css files like;
common.css
colours.css
bidi.css
etc. etc
(prosilver standard has 14 css files.)
then it is based on prosilver.

prosilver is completely css
and subsilver2 uses tables and css.

also, when editing any of the language php files,
you must only change what is on the right hand side of the => code.

and, as mentioned above , never open any php file with anything other than a good text editor.

If you use dreamweaver or frontpage or word etc. it will corrupt the files.

If you use the text editor in your hosting control panel, it will corrupt the files.


also,

any changes you make to any of the files using the editor in your phpbb admin panel will be lost the next time you purge the cache.

you should always download the file using ftp and do your edits on your computer ( in your text editor ) and them upload the file back.
then you always have to purge the cache after any changes for them to show up.

hope this helps out.


robert

[creativityunlimited]

Thanks for the help everyone. Patrick, that was a huge help. In the future, how do I find out myself what theme each style is based upon?

[Patrick]

Hey creativityunlimited,

My pleasure. We're here to help.

So, basically, the way that you tell if it's based on subsilver2 and prosilver is that subsilver2 is a table based design and prosilver is not. So, if you open up prosilver's index_body.html file, for example, you won't see any <table> tags. But, if you open up subsilver2's, you'll see several. This isn't 100% accurate, I don't think, but most of the time, it is.

Thanks,

Patrick