phpBB stuff

This page will have notes and documentation for different phpBB related things.

phpBB login/password
- This information is contained in config.php which is in the root of phpBB2
- Might have to use this to directly access some of the tables and stuff....

ADDING A NEW PAGE TO THE SITE
- in phpBB/includes there is a file called constants.php
  - Each new page must have a constant defined for it.
  - This is used for session management, look for: $userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_ANIVAL_THENEWPAGE);

LINKS to ANYTHING in the site (includes forms)
- phpBB uses a session id to keep track of sessions, thus all the link must have the session id appended to them
  - Basically replace all links with append_sid(LINK)
  - (don't forget that append_sid is PHP)

Logout problems (you are logged out of the forums for no apparent reason.
- This is MOST likely a cookie configuration problem. In fact there WILL be cookie problems because of the way we have setup our directories.
- To fix (momentarily) the problem you must log in as anival/anival and go to the forum administration page. (its a link above the footer on the forum home page)
  - Select General Admin -> Configuration
  - Change "script path" to the path you are using (ex: /phps/projects/anival/JOSE/phpBB2/ or /phps/projects/anival/PETER/phpBB2/)