• 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

Changing Email Wording:

All the email templates that the forum uses to send out automatic emails are located in the language/lang_english/email directory.

Suppose you want to edit the COPPA activation email that is sent out to users under 13. Instead of the sentence "In compliance with the COPPA act your account is currently inactive.", you want it to say "Your account is currently inactive in compliance with the COPPA Act (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act)".

You would go open the file coppa_welcome_inactive.tpl file found in the above mentioned directory and edit the text directly.

There is no code change needed.

Note that the field in curly braces that you see are place-holder field where the software will fill in with the correct data.

Next Lesson:

Learn how to Change the Registration Screen.