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I haven’t worked with PHPBB for sometime now and recently i had to install and customise a phpbb forum for a client of mine who is trying to expand his site. remember there was an article in this blog on cache problem in phpbb. This can be found here. Well another thing  i would like you to take note of is the fact that after editing your work and purging the cache from the phpbb admin, you may still be having the problem of seeing the new changes and especially after editing CSS files .

SOLUTION: After editing your file and purging the cached page from the admin, if you still cannot see your changes, you may consider clicking on the Styles menu at the top > and then when it opens look in the left panel and click on themes > then you will see a list of the templates and the one you are using. > Click on”Refresh link” next to it and then go to board index again.

Refresh your page again and the changes should be made by now. If you are still having problems, delete your browsing history from your browser, refresh your page and you should be okay.

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I got an email from a client of mine about a phpbb3 forum that refused to update even though the changes had been made in the backend . Well believe me  this might be a real pain for people who quickly wants to update their forums. Nothing can be so frustrating as trying to find out the roots , you may delete your browser cache etc  but the problem would  still be there .

Dont worry, here is the solution, it is simply a cache issue in your server, this problem is very inherent in phpbb3 forums. Now lets  solve this,

Go to your Admin control panel in your forum

Click on the ‘general’ menu tab, look for for a ‘Purge Cache’ button around the center of the page, then click on ‘Run’ which takes you  to a page where you would be asked if you want to confirm it, please confirm and afterwards, go back to index page and refresh the page, your changes should appear now.

Also it would be wise to  clean your browser history so the page can be newly refreshed. this might not be necessary but you can try it after you have run the ‘purge cache’ in the ACP(admin control panel)

Hope it helps out.

Thanks.

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Hello Readers,

I remember promising to write something on using a phpbb forum but due to time factor, i have not been chanced  to do that. Recently a client of mine asked me some questions about placing ads on a phpbb forum  that was purchased from me.

I felt it was good to share this same knowledge with you all also.

Getting your Ad code:

You would know what type of ad would fit your page, vertical ads are most pleasant and fits the page very well.

Posting your ad code in the header:

Please note that this is based on “PROSILVER” template in phpbb3, If you are using phpbb2, the difference cant be that much.

Go to the following folder and files if you want to place your ad in the topmost head position.

styles/prosilver/template/overall_header.html

Find this line <div id=”wrap”> Place your vertical ad in this place, it is better to start just after the <div id=”wrap”>  Or you can place your ad at the bottom of the page after the whole codes. </div>

Firstly back up your files and then try out the ads and check how it appears.

Posting your ad code in the foot:

To place ads in the foot, you can locate this file

styles/prosilver/template/overall_footer.html

Find this part of the page that looks like this

<div>Powered by <a href=”http://www.phpbb.com/”>phpBB</a> &copy; 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group
<!– IF TRANSLATION_INFO –><br />{TRANSLATION_INFO}<!– ENDIF –>
<!– IF DEBUG_OUTPUT –><br />{DEBUG_OUTPUT}<!– ENDIF –>
<!– IF U_ACP –><br /><strong><a href=”{U_ACP}”>{L_ACP}</a></strong><!– ENDIF –>
</div>

You can place your ads after this <div> or somewhere inside the <div>

Please try it out as usual to see how it looks, as a novice , you would need to back up your files and then try out ads.

Hope this helped out.

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