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286 CHAPTER 9 TOURING PHPBB S FEATURES Touring phpBB 3.0 Feature Upgrades phpBB 3.0 brings with it a great number of upgraded features, which will bring considerable advances in ease of use and power to the phpBB platform for both end users and administrators. End users now have a one-stop shop for managing their user account in the brand-new User Control Panel. The user interface has been refined, smoothing over a lot of phpBB 2.0 s quirks. Caution The usual disclaimer applies: This section was written when phpBB 3.0 was prerelease software, so items covered in this section could easily change drastically as the phpBB Group heads toward final release of the new version. Introducing the Board Index The Board Index, formerly known as the Forum Index in phpBB 2.0, has undergone several enhancements. The Who s Online summary at the bottom of the Board Index page has the ability to display search engine bots traversing your site. phpBB now permits users to optionally enter their birthday into their user profile. phpBB keeps track of these birthdays and announces them just underneath the Who s Online section on the Board Index. As I mentioned in Chapter 8, phpBB 3.0 now has support for sub-forums. You will know when a forum has a sub-forum underneath it by a special icon (currently, at the time of this writing, a standard phpBB forum icon with a folder overlay). If you or your users experience problems with phpBB s tracking cookies, there is now a link on the Board Index to clear all board cookies. This can help dramatically when troubleshooting cookie problems (a feature noticeably missing from phpBB 2.0). The links to the special searches (unanswered posts, your posts, and new posts) are now global links, along with a new breadcrumb navigational system that does a better job than phpBB 2.0 did in terms of helping you find your way back from deep points to the Board Index. Posting and Reading in phpBB 3.0 phpBB 3.0 offers many new enhancements to making posts and reading topics. Here s an overview: Topic icons: You can now select a topic icon to sit next to the topic title in the forum view, which acts as sort of an emoticon for your posts. You, as the administrator, have full control over how many topic icons are available, if you decide to allow the feature. The topic icon functionality works a great deal like the emoticon functionality, right down to being able to create a topic icon pack.
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