Adding Hacks to phpBB 3 Styles

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One of the best things about phpBB 3 is that, when adding hacks, there is generally a minimum of editing required which makes it a lot easier for the novices and gives the advanced administrators a lot less headaches.

phpBB 3 ships with two default templates which means that in a lot of cases you need to edit both template files within the styles folder if both styles are being used on the forum.

Most administrators tend to set up a forum and set a default style which the user's cannot override. If this is the case with you, then you need only edit the style that you are using in order for a hack to work.

If you have a forum that uses different styles, then the templates for each style used will need to be edited.

Note: Edits to .php files are the same throughout as both styles use the same .php files.

phpBB 3 hack authors use .xml documents to spell out the installation instructions, so open the .xml file that is relevant to the style you are using and follow the edits to the letter. Some hack authors still use .txt files to describe the installation, so it is a matter of looking at what is included in the download to find the installation instructions.

If you are using a style other than prosilver or subsilver2, then you will need to know which of the above styles were used for the basis of the style you are using. You can determine this by opening styles/prosilver/template/index_body.html. The first line of code will be: