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Upgrade the Look and Feel of Your Forum

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PCQ Bureau
New Update

PhpBB3 provides you well-categorized options to administer your forum. You

can manage user attachments, prune inactive users, set



permission roles for admins, users and moderators or even assign multi-level
permissions. You can also set rules for username and password, merge topics or

posts in case the same user has posted multiple times and have customized

profiles for users. A user can also mail or print the topics/discussion

directly. Another new feature is the ability to modify the style template,

themes and the image can be set directly from the browser, whereas previously

one had to download the source code, modify it before he could upload it. Jabber

support is also provided, which means you can have Instant Messaging enabled

within your forum. Also, if you want DB or LDAP authentication, the new version

comes with built-in support.

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Applies To: Web admins



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Learn how to download and use phpBB3 for your forum



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To install phpBB3 on your web

server, download the installation file and dump it into the web root folder.

Open it through a web browser, check for compatibility and click on Proceed.
Specify the type of database

used, host and database name, and user credentials with admin rights over

the database. And click on Proceed.
Under the Administrator

configuration section, specify the username, password and email address of

the administrator and proceed.
Download the phBB3 configuration

file and manually update all the key details in this file, in case the

application does not have the right to modify it.
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Specify the SMTP server details,

in case you want to enable email functionality. You can also specify the

domain name, server port and other details.
The installation part is over.

You now need to upgrade your previous version to phbBB3. For this, click on

'Proceed to convertor' link.
The software shows you all the

existing phpBB installations on the server. Choose the installed version

that you want to upgrade and click on 'Convert.'
In the Settings section, provide

details from the older phpBB installation, such as database name, password,

installation path, prefix of the table, etc.
After the upgradation process is

over, the search index needs to be converted. For this, go to Administration

Control panel and select Maintenance.
This is how your forums page

should look like after you've gone through the previous steps. Shown above

is the PCQuest Forums home page in phbBB3.
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