editing phpbb

jasondsouza · Post by **jasondsouza** » Wed May 17, 2006 1:14 pm

does anyone know anything on how to edit a phpbb forum so that i can add special effects to my phpbb forum like background sound etc. when i edited the index.php file many errors were encountered.

Help me Please

Post by **SHAdmin** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:11 pm

To add any kind of html based coding into phpbb, do not touch the phpbb core files. You may go to the templates directory and change there whatever you like.

For example,
If you need to change something on the main page and you are using subSilver template, then you must go to /templates/subSilver/ directory and make changes as required in those .tpl files.

In general the index_body.tpl, overall_header.tpl and overall_footer.tpl make up the complete home/index page of the phpbb forums system.

Lixas · Post by **Lixas** » Wed May 17, 2006 7:37 pm

And also one important notice that maybe you know allready: Do backup of your file that you are editing. In case of doing mess you will be able to restore files without needing to reinstall whole forum. Good luck with editting

norulez · Post by **norulez** » Thu May 18, 2006 1:59 am

Go to http://www.phpbbhacks.com/

and search for your desire hack.Have fun.

jasondsouza · Post by **jasondsouza** » Thu May 18, 2006 11:44 am

thanks nishanth and ignas