Install

Note: This requires phpBB > 3.1.

copy files

Copy the files to phpBBroot/ext/loki/login/{auth/provider/,config/} etc. Check that the include path to forum_mysqlconn.inc.php (storing db info for sgdb) in phpBBroot/ext/loki/login/{auth/provider/loki_auth.php is correct. The path is relative to the phpBBroot dir.

enable

Login to the phpBB admin panel, go to Customize tab then Extensions Management and enable phpBB loki Authentication Go to General tab then CLIENT COMMUNICATION > Authentication and set loki_auth as the authentication module.

about

Now all logins will be checked just with the loki_auth driver. (the DB logins are ignored, be careful with your admin user : YOU MUST HAVE AN USER WITH THE SAME LOGIN IN sgdb!)

If the user is validated by the loki_auth driver, phpBB will check if the account exists in its own database. If the user is validated but the account does not exist in the phpBB database, the login information will be duplicated in the database. It permits to have the option to switch to the default phpBB auth driver as all the logins will already exist (as they were at the users’ first connection) .

See this link for additional info on how to create an extension. This link is somewhat outdated, but the return values describes are still valid phpBBroot/includes/constants.php contains the constants used.

NB. This link describes how to change the board logo. Convert to/from png and then rename it to gif, in order to preserve quality. Eq.

convert lion.png -resize 52x52 site_logo.png
mv site_logo.png site_logo.gif

General modifications of phpBB

Show date and time of quoted post

Instead of pawse wrote: when quoting, this modification shows pawse » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:24 am wrote:. Change phpBBroot/posting.php, line 1575, to the following:

//$message_parser->message = '[quote="' . $post_data['quote_username'] . '"]' . censor_text(trim($message_parser->message)) . "[/quote]\n";
$message_parser->message = '[quote="' . '[url=' . generate_board_url() . "/viewtopic.$phpEx?p=$post_id#p$post_id" . ']' . $post_data['quote_username'] . ' » ' . $user->format_date($post_data['post_time']) . '[/url]' . '"]' . censor_text(trim($message_parser->message)) . "[/quote]\n";

Make sure guest enters a username when posting

In posting.php search for // validate username and insert the following just before // validate username

// Tjek at der er skrevet et username, når man poster som guest - Paw
if ((utf8_strlen($post_data['username']) < 3) && !$user->data['is_registered'])
{
	$error[] = $user->lang['TOO_SHORT_USERNAME'];
}

“Username” is in the language files. Though, the same is used all over the forum, so if you change it in the language file, the term gets modified at several other places as well.

You may add a new entry in the language file, e.g. GUESTNAME or YOURNAME and use that instead in posting_editor.html. https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=2164909

Se også filen forum/language/n/common.php ‘USERNAME’ => ‘Navn’, //

og forum/styles/prosilver/template/posting_editor.html

newpost2mail

I filen newpost2mail.php

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// Paw: Vis det brugernavn folk skriver i navne-feltet hvis de ikke er logget ind.
if ($user->data['is_registered'])
  $post_USERNAME    = $user->data['username'];
else
  $post_USERNAME    = $post_data['username'];

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$headers .= "From: \"".mail_encode(html_entity_decode($config[sitename]))."\" <$config[board_email]>\n";

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// Paw: indsæt ekstra mellemrum mellem informational table og selve indholdet
$message .= "\n";

Linje 249: Udkommenter donationsfooter