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Locking all forums in phpBB

David Dernoncourt — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:18:00 +0000

I didn’t find a fast way to lock all forums in phpBB via the admin control panel (ACP), thus I messed a bit with the database, and soon found out that this query does the trick:

UPDATE [phpbb_]forums SET forum_status=1

Just make sure you replace [phpbb_] with the database prefix you chose.

To unlock, use:

UPDATE [phpbb_]forums SET forum_status=0

NB: this will unlock ALL forums, even those who were locked before you locked them all.

Google adsense in phpBB 3 (at the bottom or at the top)

David Dernoncourt — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:35:00 +0000

To add something at the bottom of your phpBB 3.x forum, edit the “overall_footer.html” file for the template(s) available on your phpBB: add whatever you want just before:

To add something at the top, edit “overall_header.htm” near:

{SITENAME}

phpBB – force your users to subscribe to thread by default

David Dernoncourt — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:05:00 +0000

It is really annoying when you have a forum where you often have members who come and never return, even to check their own topics. A partial solution for this is to run the following query, which will change all users preferences so that they have topic reply notification enabled by default:

UPDATE [your phpBB database name].[the phpBB table prefix]users SET user_notify=1 WHERE [the phpBB table prefix]users.user_id >=53

NB: replace 53 with the ID of the first real member (this is to avoid modifying settings for bot users).
This was tested with phpBB 3.0.1. The most efficient way to do this would be to run this query everytime someone signs up (include the code somewhere on the sign up page…), or to a lesser degree, run it regularly with a cron job.