Idiot profile phpbb group. Group management. Default Groups
There are two types of groups: preset and custom.
Preset Groups
These groups are installed by default with phpBB 3.0. These groups cannot be deleted directly because the conference needs them to perform various functions. But you can add new users to these groups, change group attributes (description, color, title, avatar, etc.), and add group leaders. Users who register for the conference are automatically added to the Registered Users group. Do not try to delete them manually through the database, otherwise your conference will no longer work correctly.
Administrators
This group contains all conference administrators. All users with Founder status are administrators, but not all administrators are founders. This group allows you to control what administrators can do.
Bots
This group is intended for search bots. phpBB has features to prevent common problems associated with search bots indexing conference pages. To get more detailed information about bots, their management and configuration, see the “Spiders and Bots” section.
Super moderators
Super moderators are moderators who have moderating rights in each conference forum. You can change the rights of super moderators using this group.
Guests
Guests are unregistered conference visitors. You can restrict the rights of guests using this group.
Registered users
Registered users are the main and largest part of the conference. With this group, you can control what registered users can do.
Registered COPPA users
COPPA Registered Users are the same as Registered Users, except they are subject to COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act). This law does not apply to users living outside the United States.
User Groups
These groups were created by you or another conference administrator. These groups are similar to the groups in phpBB 2.0. You can create as many of them as you like, delete them, set leaders, and change their attributes (description, color, title, avatar, etc.).
The Manage Groups page in the admin section displays separate lists of preset and custom groups.
Group Attributes
List of attributes that a group can have:
Group name
Group name.
Group Description
The description that appears in the group list.
Show group in legend
This option enables the group to be shown in the legend in the Who's on Conference Now list. Note: this option only makes sense if a group color is specified.
The group can receive private messages
This option allows private messages to be sent to group users. Be aware that allowing this option, for example for the Registered Users group, may not be secure. There is no permission that can prevent user groups from sending private messages, so anyone who can send private messages will be able to send a private message to that group!
Limit of personal messages in each folder
This setting will override the overall message limit for users. A value of 0 means the user default limit will be used. See the user settings section regarding setting up private messages.
Group color
The names of users for whom the custom group is the default group (see the Default Groups section) will appear on conference pages in the color specified here. When you enable the "Show group in legend" option, a legend element with that color will appear below the "Who's in the Conference Now" list.
Group title
Users for whom the custom group is the default group (see the Default Groups section) will have this title below their name. You can change a specific user's title to any other title, which will override the title specified for the group that is their default group. For more information, see the Rank section.
Group avatar
Users for whom the custom group is the default group (see the Default Groups section) will have this avatar. The user himself can change his avatar if he has the ability to do so. necessary rights. For more information about setting up avatars, see the Avatar section.
Default Groups
Since it is now possible to assign attributes, such as colors or group avatars (see section “Group Attributes”), a user can be a member of two or more groups that have different avatars and other attributes. What avatar will be applied to the user?
To overcome this issue, you can assign a user one "default group" and the attributes of that group will be applied to the user. Please note that there is no way to combine and mix attributes of different groups: if one group has a rank but no avatar, and another group only has an avatar, then there is no way to display the avatar from one group and the rank from another.
Important Note
Default groups have no effect on permissions.
Additional rights for the group are not assigned or added by default. Therefore, the user's rights will remain the same, regardless of which default group he belongs to.
There are two ways to change the default group. First, you can do this using user management (see the "User Management" section), or directly from the group management page. Be careful with the second option when changing the default group using the group management page, as this action may change the default group for all its members and overwrite their old default groups. Thus, if you change the default group for the Registered Users group using the "Set as the default group for each participant" link, then all conference participants will have this group as their default group, including administrators and moderators, since they also are members of the Registered Users group.
Important Note
If you assign a default group that has a title and avatar, then the user's old avatar and title will be overwritten by that group's attributes.
In one of the comments to my article, I was asked to tell you how to remove the copyright field of the creators of the phpBB engine: “Created based on phpBB.” Since this information may be useful to other visitors, I decided to write this article about it.
Why remove this field? Many of you may express indignation, saying that removing this field will be regarded as non-compliance with copyright. However, this is not entirely true - phpBB is a free web forum with free source code. Therefore, any changes you make assume that you own the copyright in your specific product. In other words, after creating a forum on this engine, it becomes your intellectual property. The authors of phpBB wrote a mechanism, a tool for creating forums, and not a finished product. In this case, if you remove the copyright notice in the forum footer, this will not be a violation of copyright. On the other hand, if you do leave this inscription, it will be a sign of gratitude and support for the developers, which is definitely good!
So, if you decide to get rid of this inscription, then the first step is to find out where the parameter responsible for displaying copyright information is located. To do this, we need to open any forum page where the forum is visible in one of the browsers that support the function of viewing page code (Opera, Google Chrome, Firefox, etc.), and by right-clicking on the inscription itself, select the option from the drop-down menu code review (Inspect element).
After opening the code inspector, we can see that the block we are interested in is called " copyright". It is there that changes need to be made in order to edit, hide or delete information. 
The second step is to find the file that contains the “copyright” block. Since we do not know the name of the file, searching manually will take a very long time. Therefore, we will use a convenient function - search by content, which is available in my favorite file manager - Total Commander, hereinafter referred to as TC (there are other ways to search by content, but they will not be discussed in this article). In the file manager, open the folder in which the forum is installed on local server or on your hoster's FTP server. To make searching easier, we will immediately open the folder in which the files of the default style are stored. Next, select search for files in the menu “ Teams"or just click Alt+F7. In the search window that appears, we ignore the “ Search files“, since the name of the file is unknown to us. In field " Search location"The path to the folder with the installed forum engine must be specified; by default, the TS picks up the path automatically if the search window was called from the active part where you view the contents of folders. Next, put a checkmark next to the “ With text" and enter "copyright" into the search bar, after which we safely press the button " To start searching" and wait for the results to be displayed. 
The search gave us several files, in theory there should be 5 of them, in which the name of the copyright block is mentioned. From all the output files we clearly see that we are interested in the file called “ overall_footer.html"since the block is located in the footer of the page, and the word overall suggests that this file stores global settings, that is, for the entire forum. Now we have 2 options for how to edit the file we need - through the built-in phpBB template editor or using a third-party editor. First we will look at the editing option through the native phpBB interface.
We need to go " Administration Center" and go to the tab " Styles". In the style management section, we look at which style is installed by default, this is indicated by an asterisk after the style name. In the example, only one basic style is installed - prosilve, but you can have several of them.
Next, in the section for managing style components, we go to the subsection “ Templates" and select the item " Change" next to our active topic. 
Now we need to select from the drop-down list the file we are interested in called “ overall_footer.html» 
In the editing area that appears, we go to the very bottom of the page and find the line:
after which we remove the following code:
(CREDIT_LINE)(TRANSLATION_INFO) (DEBUG_OUTPUT)
In the end, your code should look like this: 
Now press the button " Send» and voila, we have achieved the desired result - there is no longer a copyright notice.
Let's move on to alternative option how to achieve the same result: when we already have the name of the desired file, we go to the folder " template" theme activated by default, and look for the same file called " overall_footer.html«. 
Next, right-click on the file and select “ To open with"and select your favorite code editor, in my case it is Blumentals WeBuilder 2011. After this, just as in the case of the native phpBB template editor, we delete the previously specified code and save the changes. The program also has a very convenient built-in FTP client that allows you to edit and save changes to files on a remote server. 
Ready! If you followed all the steps above, then you should be able to remove the inscription. Congratulations!
One of the many new features in phpBB3 that enhance the user experience is Custom Profile Fields. In the past, users could only fill in information in the common profile fields that were displayed; administrators had to add MODifications to their board to accommodate their individual needs. In phpBB3, however, administrators can comfortably create custom profile fields through the ACP .
To create your custom profile field, login to your ACP. Click on the Users and Groups tab, and then locate the Custom profile fields link in the left-hand menu to click on. You should now be on the proper page. Locate the empty textbox below the custom profile fields headings, which is next to a selection menu and a Create new field button. Type in the empty textbox the name of the new profile field you want to create first. Then, select the field type in the selection menu. Available options are Numbers , Single text field , Textarea , Boolean (Yes/No) , Dropdown box , and Date . Click the Create new field button to continue. The following describes each of the three sets of settings that the new custom profile field will have.
Add profile field
Field type: This is the kind of the field that your new custom profile field is. That means that it can consist of numbers, dates, etc. This should already be set.
Field identification: This is the name of the profile field. This name will identify the profile field within phpBB3"s database and templates.
Display profile field: This setting determines if the new profile field will be displayed at all. The profile field will be shown on topic pages, profiles and the memberlist if this is enabled within the load settings. Only showing within the users profile is enabled by default.
Visibility option
Display in user control panel: This setting determines if your users will be able to change the profile field within the UCP .
Display at registration screen: If this option is enabled, the profile field will be displayed on the registration page. Users will be able to be change this field within the UCP.
Required field: This setting determines if you want to force your users to fill in this profile field. This will display the profile field at registration and within the user control panel.
Hide profile field: If this option is enabled, this profile field will only show up in users" profiles. Only administrators and moderators will be able to see or fill out this field in this case.
Language specific options
Field name/title presented to the user: This is the actual name of the profile field that will be displayed to your users.
Field description: This is a simple description/explanation for your users filling out this field.
When you are done with the above settings, click the Profile type specific options button to continue. Fill out the appropriate settings with what you desire, then click the Next button. If your new custom profile field was created successfully, you should be greeted with a green success message. Congratulations!
Well, let's start giving little tips on optimizing and promoting sites (forums) on phpBB. In this case, we will perform a small hack that will help get rid of an external link like " Powered by phpBB ©...". In this publication we will look at 2 ways in which you can do this - a technique for phpBB 3.x.x.
Removing an external link Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group and Russian phpBB support
The first way to remove an external link that says Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group. And so, the easiest way is to delete using the admin panel. Let's go to administrative panel, go to the “Styles” menu item, on the left we see the panel where the block in the menu is located, we are interested in the “Style Components” block, and in it “Templates”. According to the standard, in the proposed window we will see the following: prosilver and subsilver2, although there could be others if you installed them. In general, that's not the point. From the proposed set, select the default one. Click on the "edit" button next to the template. Next, a window appears asking you to “Select a template file.” Next, select “Template file” - “overall_footer.html”. The HTML editor appears below. We find the following code: " Powered by phpBB 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group"and just delete it, although you can set your own link and caption."
(TRANSLATION_INFO)
" (which is located below, can also be deleted) - this code is responsible for localization, for example an external link with the inscription "Russian phpBB support".
The second way to remove an external link that says Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group. This method is similar, but we connect to the site via Pratacol ftp. Go to the following path styles/template_name/template/overall_footer.html. And we edit the same code that we edited above. If you change the code, do not forget to set the UTF encoding - this way, “crackers” (squares and other incomprehensible symbols) may appear in place of the anchors.
There are two types of groups:
Pre-defined groups
These are groups that are available by default in phpBB 3.1. You cannot delete them, as the board needs them for various features. You can still change their attributes (description, color, rank, avatar, and so forth) and group leaders. Users that register to your board are automatically added to the predefined group "Registered Users", for instance. Do not try to remove them manually through the database, or your board will no longer function properly.
Administrators
This usergroup contains all of the administrators on your board. All founders are administrators, but not all administrators are founders. You can control what administrators can do by managing this group.
BotsThis usergroup is meant for search engine bots. phpBB 3.1 has the ability to overcome the common problems that search engine spiders encounter when spidering your board. For more information on managing settings for each bot, see the Spiders and Bots section.
Global ModeratorsGlobal moderators are moderators that have moderator permissions for every forum in your board. You can edit what permissions these moderators have by managing this group.
GuestsGuests are visitors to your board who aren't logged in. You can limit what guests can do by managing this usergroup.
Registered UsersRegistered users are a big part of your board. Registered users have already registered on your board. To control what registered users can do, manage this usergroup.
Registered COPPA UsersRegistered COPPA users are basically the same as registered users, except that they fall under the COPPA , or Child Online Privacy Protection Act, law, meaning that they are under the age of 13 in the U.S.A. Managing the permissions this usergroup has is important in protecting these users. COPPA doesn't apply to users living outside of the U.S.A. and can be disabled altogether.
User defined groupsThe groups you create by yourself are called "User defined groups". These groups are similar to groups in 2.0. You may create as many as you want, remove them, set group leaders, and change their attributes (description, color, rank, avatar, and so forth).
The Manage Groups section in the ACP shows you separated lists of both your "User defined groups" and the "Pre-defined groups".
