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288 CHAPTER 9 TOURING PHPBB S FEATURES Introducing the User Control Panel The new User Control Panel represents the nerve center for user functions in phpBB 3.0, and it is amazingly informative. The new Overview page, shown in Figure 9-21, gives you the lowdown on forum announcements from administration, lets you see what topics you are watching (a great improvement from phpBB 2.0, in which you hadn t a clue as to what topics you were watching), lets you revisit drafts of posts you are working on, and much more. Additionally, all the profile-editing tools from phpBB 2.0 are available here. Figure 9-21. The new phpBB 3.0 User Control Panel The User Control Panel includes a new Friends and Foes feature, something like a buddy and block list for those familiar with instant messaging programs. Private messaging is also an integral part of the new User Control Panel. Best of all, this panel is fully extensible, making writing modifications for it a cinch. (I ll discuss modifications in Chapter 11.) User Profile Enhancements phpBB 3.0 breaks the formerly consolidated user profile into four separate pages to cut down on clutter and form overload: Profile, which contains your publicly viewable information such as web site address, instant messaging contact information, and your birthday (a new addition) Registration Details, which has settings that deal with your username, password, and registered e-mail address Signature, where you can customize your signature for each one of your posts (now featuring the formatting toolbar and color picker found in the posting interface) Your Avatar, which provides nearly identical avatar-picking functionality to that in phpBB 2.0
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