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phpBB: A User Guide

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phpBB: A User Guide

Overview of this book

phpBB is a free, open source Internet community application, with outstanding discussion forums and membership management. Written in the PHP scripting language, and making use of the popular MySQL database, phpBB is a standard among web hosting companies throughout the world, and is one of the most widely-used bulletin board packages in the world. This book is an abridged version of "Building Online Forums with phpBB 2", (ISBN 1904811132), focusing on a complete set of topics to help you set up and run your own phpBB-powered online community. This book gives you the power to use phpBB to set up and run your own online discussion forums with ease. It takes you through the whole process of setting up your phpBB site, and helps you create, customize, and manage your own online community with phpBB. Written by experienced phpBB administrators and enthusiasts, the emphasis is on simple and practical guidance for you to get the most from phpBB. Packed with step-by-step examples, this book is your ideal guide to learning phpBB.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Viewing Information about Other Users


There are a few ways to find about the other members of the community. The memberlist feature and the usergroups provide different sorts of user listings, while the "Who’s online" feature provides information about who is currently logged in and what are they currently doing.

Memberlist

If users want to know more about the other members of the community, they can obtain a member listing. Clicking the Memberlist top navigation link will bring up a list of all registered users. There are sorting options at the top of this listing. If, for example, you want to get a spicier listing like "Hmm, who’s posting the most?", you can sort on the basis of the number of posts. You can select Total posts as Select sort method and Descending as your Order. This will show you the top posting members.

Well, in our example board, there’s nothing spicy in the list of just the Administrator and The Dude, but it can get much more interesting as your community grows. Here’s...