Questions tagged [phpbb]
A forum script written in PHP.
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How to allow new users to post without moderation in phpBB 3.2.1? [duplicate]
I installed phpbb3 with namecheap's control panel.
The standard method of disabling the approval requirement is to go to "permissions" -> "group permission" -> "submit" -> "advanced" -> "misc."
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PHPBB language packs not appearing under ACP -> SYSTEM after install
I'm new to PHPBB, I have followed the following link to install new language packs,
https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.0/kb/article/how-to-install-a-language-pack/
But I can't see the language ...
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Banned emails are still registering to phpBB forum - how could that be?
I manage a phpBB forum (v3.0.12) and am having a problem with spam registrations. We have CAPTCHA setup and two step verification. The problem is, users are still registering with emails we've ...
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Option for allowing new users to post to a Phpbb version 3 forum
I am trying to allow new users to post to the forum. It is not showing me the option of turning this off or on in the settings.
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Creating a board with thousands of forums
I would like to create a message board that has separate forums for each movie, each actor, each director, etc. With modern forum software, is having many thousands of forums like this impractical for ...
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A phpbb3 user group to prevent posting
I'm trying to prevent certain users from posting anywhere on the forum (as a penalty measure) and I thought to create a new group for it.
What I did so far was create a new group and set permissions ...
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PHPBB Post Export Contains Unexpected Results
I am working on migrating a PHPBB forum for a client and have exported their posts table. I looked the SQL over and there's all kinds of random stuff—posts in Swedish (it's an English site), posts ...
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How can I migrate a phpBB3 forum from MySQL to PostgreSQL?
I have a phpBB3 forum running on a server with MySQL 5.5.
I want to migrate the data to a PostgreSQL 9.3 database.
I've looked at various guides and tools they were either
Very old or
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Old phpBB posts use different [quote] BBCode markup that doesn't work anymore
I restored a ten-year-old phpBB forum, and after upgrading it to 3.1.x, I noticed that the quote BBCode is not working correctly (but I don’t know if it worked in the old version).
If no username/URL ...
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How can I downgrade phpbb 3.1 to phpbb 3.0?
I did an install of phpbb through softaculous in my cPanel and it automatically installed the latest version of phpbb. I don't want to use phpbb 3.1 however because the styling files that I have ...
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Feedly is unable to read the feeds produced by our phpBB site
On our site, the CEN64 forums, feeds were recently requested to be enabled. However, the feeds, while working for some feed readers, are showing up as empty in Feedly. While I personally think it's a ...
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How to allow new users to post without moderation in phpBB 3?
I am creating a new forum used phpBB3. New users can post, but I have to manually approve them. How can I disable this so users can post without me having to approve the content manually?
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phpBB - Reducing Spam [duplicate]
I've installed phpBB Forums last week and the past 2 days I've been getting users sign up and posting spam chinese emails on each topic.
I have:-
Added captcha on registration
Made sure users have ...
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phpBB SEO memberlist pagination error caused by Ultimate SEO URL plugin
I have recently installed following mods on my PhpBB board (version 3.0.12):
Zero Dupe
Ultimate SEO URL
Related Links
Gym Sitemap
The problem is that the pagination for memberlist.php is broken now.
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phpbb3 email settings for Zoho SMTP server
I've spent a while guessing and googling, and haven't found an answer. In the past I setup my forums to send via my Gmail account, but spambots with fake emails have flooded my inbox, so I setup ...
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PHPBB3 UCP Module only showing up for admins
I copied a bunch of examples online to create my own custom UCP page/module. And it worked. But it only shows up for administrators.
I checked the ACP and there does not seem to be any settings there ...
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Using topic titles as img alt text on a forum?
I have a (mostly) standard phpBB forum so right now, images that are posted in [IMG] BB-tags don't have an alt text. I would like to change this and I'm doubting between two options:
Use the topic ...
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Chinese bots in my forum
I have a small community forum that doesn't really get posts or any real traffic. The only thing that happens on the regular is bots with Chinese IPs signing up gibberish usernames. Most bots don't ...
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Would phpBB break if I move it from one folder to another? Can I use mod_rewrite to redirect requests for that forum from old folder to new one?
Please note that I have installed dynamic web pages (PHP) in the directory *public_html/old/* in order to create the web site www.example.com. Actually I have created a PHPBB forum and thus the URL of ...
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Cloudflare and phpBB forum: users keep getting logged out [closed]
Yesterday, I added the free CDN services CloudFlare offers to my forum. I used all of the recommended settings. The used bandwidth dropped drastically and the site loaded a lot faster so I was pretty ...
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Prevent hotlinking or leeching bandwidth on PHPBB
My site uses PHPBB as a forum, and we would like to use it as a place to store and share large files up to 1gb.
I'm afraid that if one of our hotlinks is overly shared, it will cause problems with ...
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phpBB - display a public message when the whole board is private
In my installation all discussion forums/boards are private and can only be seen after a user registers and admin approves their membership. This is working.
When a user first comes to the main ...
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500 error on Joomla website
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function setQuery() on a non-object in /home/josh/public_html/administrator/components/com_jfusion/plugins/phpbb3/forum.php on line 226
Just moved over to a new ...
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Is it possible to hide some topics in phpBB forum?
I would like to be able to hide some of the topics in a phpBB-based forum temporarily from the users - perhaps with the exception of administrators and moderators.
I am using the forum for my ...
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Bridge between phpbb and wordpress
I want to create an authentication bridge between phpbb and wordpress. I know they cant share the same database but is there a way to make a single sign-on for them?
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Auto-apply a role to new phpBB user with password or code
Is there a way, with phpBB to have a new user enter a password which would automatically move them into a specific role? I'd like to be able to allow certain people to sign up and automatically have ...
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phpbb banning multiple users by username/email
On phpbb, we usually select many user names and put it in the ban list. This is fine. but here's my key question:
Are these banned users banned by their user names only OR emails OR both?
If they're ...
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Is it possible to post system-wide messages in PHPBB3?
Is it possible to post system-wide messages in PHPBB3?
I'm performing a server move today. The server has a pretty busy PHPBB3 forum on it.
I'm going to lock all forums during the DNS update.
I'd ...
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Does the "Bad Behavior" anti-spam tool exist for phpBB?
I've come across the highly praised anti-spam tool "Bad Behavior". There is a dead-simple WordPress plugin, but I also want to use Bad Behavior with a forum powered by phpBB.
The Bad Behavior ...
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Authenticate phpBB using custom MS-SQL database
How can I let my users to log into a phpBB forum by entering their user credentials while these credentials are stored in a separate MS SQL database?
I mean I need to customize the authentication ...
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Fix Login issues tapatalk with joomla 1.5 to phpbb3 bridge [closed]
I have a forum that I want to integrate tapatalk into.
Everything works except when I login I get the following error message:
http://vps.Midnightfox.be/imagehost/issue_phpbb3bridge.jpg
Does anybody ...
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Moderator with no power to fix spam bot issue [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?
I think this is the correct site to post this.
So I'm a moderator (not administrator) on anddev.org and it's completely ...
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phpBB: Is there any mod for voting up Threads?
I'm looking for a mod that enables users to vote up threads. I.e. not replies within threads, but threads themselves.
Ideally, I'd prefer to have only up-voting; no 1–5 stars, up/down-votes, multiple-...
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phpbb when changing the overall style of the style what are all the files that should be altered
I have installed phpbb board in my site.
I want to change the total style and color of the board.
I just want to know what are all the files that I should concentrate on so that finally the total ...
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How can I migrate from phpBB 3.x to SMF?
I have a phpBB 3.x-based site which I would like to migrate to SMF - basically, all threads, posts, user accounts and possibly PMs.
This seems to be possible, but I haven't been able to find a solid ...
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How can I reduce the number of spammers registering with my phpBB site?
I have a site which runs phpBB, on this site I have
enabled user authentication through email when registering
enabled captcha
However I still get spam users every 20 to 30 minutes.
Is there ...
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How can I secretly ban someone (hellban) in phpbb?
The trolls are driving me crazy; I'd like to experiment with a secret ban.
A hellbanned user is invisible to all other users, but crucially, not himself. From their perspective, they are ...
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Can I tell which users are downloading files with SMF or PHPBB forum software?
I want to create a forum where I will have attachments available for download to registered users. I'd like to be able to see which registered users have downloaded which files. Is there a way to do ...
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phpBB permissions issue
I'm in the process of installing phpBB, it says I need certain permissions for a few directories (image). I tried changing the permissions via FTP clients but it won't change. FileZilla even gave me ...
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Google doesn't index a subdomain. What can be the problem and what can be done?
I have a domain, let's call it example.com, which has a subdomain, games.example.com. I maintain a games forum using phpbbseo which is located at games.example.com/forum. The problem is that the forum ...
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Per-Thread Visibility PHPBB
I'm trying to implement a registration system for a board I'm running, and I want a forum where every thread is invisible to everyone but the person who started it and the moderator staff.
I want ...
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Which forum software has the most advanced community/GetSatisfaction type features? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What Forum Software should I use?
I need to assemble a GetSatisfaction/Lithium/Jive type support forum/community. The first is not available in the desired language and the ...
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