• Lesson Index:
• Overview
• Installation
• Admin Panel
• User Rank
• User Registration
• Admin Email
• COPPA Regulation
• User Admin
• Adding Forums
• Member-Only Forums
• Moderators
• Disable Forum
• Backup Database
• Admin Password
• Upgrades
• phpBB Skins
• Customization
• Change Email Wording
• Registration Screen
• New Style
• Customize Style
• Replace Logo
• Edit Theme Style
• Other Pages
• Replacing Icons
• Converting User Style
• Integrate Website
• Detecting Login
• Implement Search
• phpBB Notes

Converting User Style

In a previous lesson, we had changed the default style to our new siteScheme style. Previously registered members will still have their style set to the original subSilver style in their profile which is stored in the database. If you want to convert all previous members styles to the new style, it requires changing the database value of the records. Hence you need to backup the database first.

1. Login in to the regular forum with one of the users (such as the admin user). Go to Profile and change the Board Style to siteScheme.

2. Now access the database record of that user in the phpbb_users table. And see what value is set for user_style. In our example, the value happens to be 2.

3. Therefore change all records in the phpbb_users table to value of 2.

Next Lesson

Go to Next Lesson we will learn how to integrate the forum into an website template page.