A question often asked is about how to change the link colors for moderator and administrator user listed in the Whos Online box and on the Whos Online page. Its relatively easy, you will need to edit the colors for font color 2 and font color 3 in Administration Panel -> Styles Admin -> Management.

This fourth part of the guide covers a number of techniques and methods Ive used as well as provide answers to some common questions. It is recommend you at least look through this section to see if there's anything you might find useful.

Variables

Perhaps you recall that word I mentioned earlier: variable, it may seem like a complex concept but it really isn't. There are variables in basic algebra which we all learn in school. When programming, an expression such as x = 4 will assign the value 4 to the variable x. Variables in phpBB templates work exactly the same way, they represent a value: for example an integer (whole number) or a string (fragment of text).

As I explained in Part 1, a template consists of template files and at least one theme. A theme is basically formalized CSS. A template can have several themes associated with it, all of which may have different fonts, colors and table background images.

As you see a template consists of several files, each file is used for a certain part of the template. Some files are used for multiple pages. The developers of phpBB have been quite ingenious in using the same files for several different functions to keep the number of files to a minimum.

If you replaced the files in the download location, as instructed, copy the myTemplate/ folder from the templates/ folder there to either the template design boards templates/ folder on the server or to the phpBB templates/ folder located in your local web servers web root folder, depending on your setup.