CHAPTER 9 TOURING PHPBB S (Web site templates) FEATURES 273 Creating
CHAPTER 9 TOURING PHPBB S FEATURES 273 Creating User Profiles phpBB s user profiles allow for a great deal of personalization for your members. I ll walk you through the user profile options phpBB makes available to registered users. Entering Registration Information The information contained in the Registration Information section is the basic registration data required to establish an account on a phpBB forum. Figure 9-6 illustrates this section of the Edit Profile form. Figure 9-6. The Registration Information section contains the basic information for a user account. If you permit users to change their username, then the Username field will be editable. If users decide to change their e-mail address and e-mail verification is enabled, they will need to reactivate their account. I will discuss e-mail verification in detail in Chapter 10, as that is an important step in securing your board. Adding Profile Information The fields in the Profile Information section of the Edit Profile form, shown in Figure 9-7, contain the information that is publicly viewable when viewing a user s profile or perusing the member list. Users can fill out as much or as little of the information as they please it is all optional. Users can also add a custom signature to append to each of their posts. Your policies on allowing HTML, BBCode, and smilies pertain to signatures as well. The default limit is set to 255 characters. This is a comfortable limit, which you are free to adjust using the General Board Settings options accessed through the Configuration link under General Admin in the Administration panel. It is generally good practice to keep the signature size around the default limit, or perhaps even under it. This helps prevent posts that have more signature than substance, if that is important to you.
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