phpBB Weekly #014
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Episode Duration: 45:01
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples)
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We’re still waiting for a new phpBB3 release, but team member Vic D’Elfant has joined the Development Team. Douglas gives a long tutorial on how to setup forums in phpBB3, and how to assign permissions for new forums to users on phpBB3 so that they can actually use those new forums! Included is a guide on how to navigate the new permissions system and also all the ways that it can be used to show as many (or as few) permissions as you need. Douglas also shows how you can now control how much (or how little) moderators can do on a board.
The MOD of the Week is Topic Description by Swizec, and the Style of the Week is phpBBXP2 by Vereor.
Next week we will continue talking about permissions, including how to set permissions for non-forum-related features on the board, and how to edit and configure your own permission roles beyond the default ones.
Correction: During the episode I recommended using the “On Moderation Queue” as the default role for Global Moderators. I was incorrect: Under the default settings, “On Moderation Queue” means that all posts that that user or group makes must be approved by a moderator before they appear on the board. Global Moderators should be assigned “Full Access” to the board, and control over whether or not they moderate that board is set under the Forum Moderators panel as I described. Thanks to Lastof for pointing this out!
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Why is it that you always take your style of the week from phpbbhacks.com? Is it some sort of sponsorship deal?
I am trying to spread the love a bit, however the only comprehensive databases of styles that I’ve seen are phpBBHacks and phpBB.com. Even then, I’m personally not that impressed with phpBB.com’s collections, and although I would only pick MODs from phpBB.com (because they’ve been thoroughly validated to ensure that code that could modify your board is safe), I don’t have as many restrictions about styles.
I am trying to spread around the love a bit (as I did on episode #015 when I picked from phpBBstyles.com) as best I can. If you have any other recommendations for databases, please let me know and I will certainly look into that.
I do agree that it’s been a bit heavy on the phpBBHacks for awhile, and do want to tone it down a bit.