• 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

phpBB: A User Guide

Building Online Communities with phpBB2

Setting up a Forum using phpBB

In these lessons, you will learn how to create a forum for your website using the popular open-source phpBB forum software which is free. In order for you to use phpBB, your host must support PHP and MySQL database. The steps in these lessons are based on phpBB version 2.0.22.

We'll look at installation and then various aspects of configuring and administering the forum. In the later lessons, we will learn how to customize the color and style of the forum to match the look and feel of a website.

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