phpBB Styles

by **valiance212** on Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:45 pm

thank you

by **Darkmaster** on Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:18 pm

how do I upload files in my forum?

by **webnoobie** on Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:15 pm

Darkmaster - Are you using a free hosted phpBB forum? Or, do you have access to your sites cPanel and FTP?

If you have a free hosted phpBB forum, you most likely can not do it.
If you have access via FTP, then, you connect to your FTP via your FTP client, and upload the files. Please remember to follow the install file.

by **kjaonline** on Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:56 am

when i install this do i just extract this in my root phpbb folder or what?
I have free service but have access to cpanel...
have version 2.0.19

any precautions before i install mod?

by **UseLess** on Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:01 am

Greetings,

To install XS Mod

- Unzip the archive
- in unzipped archive there is a dir called 'root'
- upload the contents of 'root' (and not the 'root' dir itself) to the 'root' of your forum
- make sure 'includes/template.php' is overwritten with the file from XS Mod

Job Done.

by **Praetorian** on Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:08 am

Along with everyone else, I'm confused about the installation of this program. I followed the instructions for where to copy each set of files... though some of them were more confusing than others. Do all of these files need to go in my root directory? Or do some of them go into the Admin directory for subSilver?

I copied all the files where it told me to put them, and I copied the folder xs_mod straight into the root directory of my board.

What now? Is there an installation page to visit? I saw a file titled xs_install.php, but visiting the url only redirected me to my forum index. Does the program just automatically start working as soon as all the files are in place?

And just so I know for future reference.. is this mod compatible with easymod?

by **UseLess** on Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:15 am

Greetings,

Read the post above yours.

Then to make sure it's installed and working simply visit the ACP and on the menu on the left you should have a category 'eXtreme Styles' if that is there then it's installed and working.

And what do you mean by compatible with EasyMod?

by **Praetorian** on Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:27 am

Easymod is a program from phpbb that automatically installs mods. It's not important, I was just curious.

As for reading the post above mine...

The contents of the root file in xs_mod are four folders. Do I need to upload these entire folders to the root directory? Or do I upload the content of these folders to the root directory? I followed the instructions in installation.txt, and that's how I ended up where I am. All it gave me was a list of files and where to copy them..

by **UseLess** on Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:45 am

Greetings,

Yes.

As the other dirs, such as 'admin' and 'includes' etc, already exist all your doing it uploading the files in those dirs. The only difference you will notice for the 'root' of your forum is the extra dir 'xs_mod' that will be there once the mod is installed along with the extra option on the ACP menu.

And the fact that you can now use PHP in template files etc etc.

I know what EasyMod is, I just don't use it as it has 'issues' when installing mods to styles that are not clones of subSilver.

by **Praetorian** on Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:59 am

See that's where I'm confused. I did all that already. Granted I may have done it wrong, but this seemed to be what the installation instructions were telling me..

I copied all the contents of xs_mod/root/admin to forum1(my root db)/admin.

I copied template.php into forum1/admin/em_includes

I copied lang_xs into forum1/language/lang_english

And as I said I just copied the whole folder xs_mod into the root directory.

Did I put something in the wrong place?

by **UseLess** on Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:40 am

Greetings,

Well from the above you have indeed installed it wrong. As this;

I copied template.php into forum1/admin/em_includes

is wrong the 'template.php' file should go in 'includes/' and the 'includes' dir is the one in the root of the forum NOT the easymod one.

The easiest way to explain how to install this mod is as follows;

- download the zip file 'xs_mod.231.zip'
- unzip it, making sure to preserve the dir structure within the archive
- you will then end up with a 'xs_mod.231' dir and this dir will have the following contents;

- xs_mod.231
-- contrib
--- cash_mod
--- uninstall
-- root
--- admin
--- includes
--- language
---- lang_english
--- xs_mod
---- images
---- tpl

obviously the contents of the individual dirs are not shown for simplicities sake.

Now all you do is connect to the server where your forum is and in the right window (the remote server) navigate to the root of your forum (where config.php, index.php etc are). In the left window navigate to where you unzipped the XS Mod archive and enter the 'root' dir so you see the dirs;

- admin
- includes
- language
- xs_mod

select all the dirs and upload them to the remote server. The dirs 'admin', 'includes' and 'language' already exist in a phpBB installation so all your doing is uploading the contents of those dirs and as those files don't exist you won't be asked if you want to over write them apart from 'includes/template.php' which does already exist and should be over written with the one from XS Mod.

Once installed the only difference you will see in the root of the forum is the extra dir 'xs_mod'.

Visit the ACP on your forum and if you see 'eXtreme Styles' on the left menu then the mod is installed.

by **Praetorian** on Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:21 am

Wow.

That was really really simple.

I would definately recomend putting THAT in the installation instructions instead of what's there. What's there at the moment is rather confusing, since it isn't really instructions, it's just a list of files to by copied. Saying that all you have to do is click and drag the four folders into the root directory of the forum is much simpler.

Thanks UseLess!

by **springdestiny** on Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:03 am

I feel like a dummy here I downloaded the extreme template, and I can't figure how to add it to my forum. I have clicked on all my opions under the admin. I'm still at a loss, my forum is: http://forums.superfreeforums.com/belushibrothers.html

by **Splinter** on Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:08 am

Hi,

You should read this:

http://www.phpbbstyles.com/viewtopic.php?t=7981

Before you try to install any mods on your forum.

Regards.

by **springdestiny** on Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:53 am

So does that mean I have to stay with what I have? My other forum has diffrent styles and formats that I can play around with. I'm mainly trying to upload my banner I made and to find out how to access my avatar gallery to add pics on to it.

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