1) Click on Admin in the menu bar (or "Go to Administration Panel" at the bottom
of the page)
2) It will ask you for your log in details again. You need to fill this in every
session that you go to the ACP
You are now ready to configure your system
|
Administration |
|
Here are five links that allow you to navigate the main part of your
forum. Previewing Forum and Portal will maintain the Admin Navigation
column for easy access back to the ACP |
|
Security |
|
This is the an important addition to IntegraMOD and whilst it may occasionally
frustrate, most of the time it will help protect you. |
| Configuration |
- Login Attempts - initially set at three but if you
have a forum
with noobs and less computer able, you may want to up this to 10
- Notify Admin- you may wish to be notified by only one of these
constants |
| Special |
- Protect admin & moderator
accounts -
If set to enabled you will not be able to have more than the
specified number of admins (Amount of allowed admins) moderators
(Amount of allowed mods) on your forum. If you intend to
have 2 or more admins or moderatos you must set the specific numbers or
disable this constant.
- Amount of allowed admins & Amount of allowed mods as explained above. |
|
Redirect Admin PM's |
|
If you have an admin that normally receives all PMs or you have a dummy
admin user you can block or redirect PMs for Admin staff with this tool. |
|
Attachments |
|
This allows you to control
items attached to posts within your forums |
|
Approval |
|
Here if you have set restrictions on users or forums, you can see all
who wish approval and you can administer from this panel. |
|
Download |
|
This Download manager allows you to manage downloads from your site or
elsewhere. Setup your download limits and banned extensions in here. |
|
Extensions |
|
File extension allowed and
forbidden are named and configured here |
|
eXtreme Styles |
|
This is the area you can manage the style and templates for your site.
It is very important part of personalising your forum. Her you can make
sure everyone sees the style you want them too. You can also clone a
style then develop it into your own. |
| Configuration |
- Show on left frame - You can select what items to
show on left frame in admin control panel. You may find selecting
Default Style and Manage Cache useful to select here.
- Default template directory - check initially that it says fisubice
- make sure that "set Add tpl filenames in html" is set to No. |
| Styles Management |
- Set default style - switch
all users to use an IntegraMOD 1.4.x compatible style.
NOTE: It is recommended to uninstall all those styles that are NOT
IntegraMOD 1.4.x compatible.
- Manage Cache - Click 'Clear All', wait for next page
to load, then at the bottom of the page, click on 'Compile All'. It may say
it could take some time, at this stage, it won't :) |
|
FTR Management |
|
This is the Force To Read Topic, where you can make sure that every
registered user reads the specified topic before they read anything
more. It is initially set ON but you can turn it of or amend the message
for new users. |
|
FAQ Admin |
| You
have an opportunity here to amend, and develop FAQ pages that already
are set up, if you wish. |
|
Forum Admin |
|
this is the heart of how you structure your forums. You can set
permissions for access, make categories, and manage whether points are
added for posting. There is already a demo forum provided but it would
be better in time to remove this. (Please Note the FTR topic is
initially set to the welcome post in this forum. You will need to change
the FTR configuration if you delete this post or the test forum.) |
| Spellcheck |
One of the important tools for
your forum is the spell checker. Build your dictionaries in this section.
Remember part1 then part2 of each language you wish to support. You
must install at least one dictionary in order to use the Spell Check option.
If no dictionary is installed the spell check popup window will appear blank.
NOTE: The Dictionaries take up a lot of DB Space. (approx 4-5mb each language).
Delete the /spelling/xxxxxx.dic Files once you've built your Dictionaries. |
|
General Admin |
|
This is the nerve centre of the ACP. There is much in this section and
will take time to feel fully confident. The more familiarity you gain of
this section, the more solid your forum will be. |
|
phpBBMyAdmin |
This is a phpBB's own cut
down version of phpmyadmin. You will find this useful if you wish to
quickly look up tables and manage elements of your forum. |
|
Acronyms |
If you have words specific
to your usergroup or abbreviations that may be less known, place them in
this section and they will be highlighted in the forum to provide a
reference to all. |
| Auto language
detection |
This very useful feature
detects the language set in a browsers configuration, so that when an
unregistered user accesses your site, thay are greeted and can register
details in their own language. It is worth noting that these need to be
set when a new language is added to your forum. |
| Backup Database |
Although not essential, it
is worth betting into the habit of backing up your database, in case of
server problems or site attack. this section will allow the Admins the
ability to backup the database on their local computer. |
| Configuration |
VERY IMPORTANT section
- Site Name - This will appear at the top of your browser windows and is
the name of your portal. IntegraMOD adds the term 'Forum' after this
text as the title of your system.
- Description - Go on, sell yourself. This is where you detail what you
site is about and who it is aimed at.
- Disable board - DO NOT click Yes to this and log out. You will find it
difficult to log back in if the board is disabled.
- Enable account activation - This is to help moderate who joins your
board. It may be wise to initially set this as 'Admin', and it means you
will need to approve anyone who joins. Once you are happy that your
e-mail from the board is functioning properly, you will generally want
to select 'User' here. This means this user will need to verify there
e-mail address when they join. Unless you wish a completely anonymous
Forum, or you are having mailing difficulty it would be preferable not
to keep this set at 'None'
- User email via board - If selected 'Yes' then users will be able to
mail via an e-mail messaging page, in order to protect that mail address
from anyone other than the owner. If No is selected, the e-mail button
holds the address and is linked to open the sender's mail program for a
new mail on clicking the e-mail button.
- Default Language - This dropdown will only show installed languages.
- System Timezone - This is the Timezone your Host server is based in.
- Logo Setting - you are able to change aspects of your main logo here.
- Cookie name - If you have had another phpbb type forum before on your
domain, it is highly recommended that you change the cookie name to
different one as it can conflict when previous users of older forums
come to visit your new site.
- Avatar Settings - IntegraMOD now has a set of avatars within your
install. You can add more folders of avatars in the
Images/Avatars/Gallery/ directory. To enable the user to use them,
select Enable gallery avatars. Using remote avatars or allowing the
uploading of avatars carries a small security risk, but the benefits
encourage individuality and can help to maintain your memory usage.
- Admin Email Address - This will go out on all automatically
distributed mail from your site. It may be worth using specific address
purely for this purpose.
- Use SMTP Server for email - You may not need to set up this as most
servers will send out mail without external SMTP. It is worth testing
first to see if you need this to be set.
- PayPal IPN Settings - IntegraMOD 1.4.0 onwards, has greater
integration with PayPal to promote your site funding. Take care that you
set these correctly. And feel free to share the wealth this way, if you
so wish :) |
| Configuration + |
Another Important section
Here you will be able to set the default values for users and override
the if need be. When a category has override selected, the user will not
be shown the options that have been withheld.
- Registration information - Items marked with a red star will be
compulsory for the user to submit information.
- Profile Settings - Internationalization - Here you can restrict the
user to maintain a board system if appropriate. e.g. If a Forum is set
in one country alone then only one timezone may be needed.
- Profile Settings - Privacy - As Board Founder,
you have a duty to protect the information, unsuspecting persons may
give. If you or the user selects not to display their personal
information, themselves and admins only will be able to see it, with the
addition of nominated friends if selected.
- Profile Settings - Reading - Please make sure you have
'Display images' set as Yes, otherwise
unregistered visitors will not automatically be able to see images in
forum posts
Further setting below this help you manage your site behaviour. |
| Hacks/Mods List |
Please visit and see over
100 MODs added into IntegraMOD to make it 'The Best Pre-MODded phpBB
Package Available'. If Mod owners find their MODs have not been
correctly labelled or updated please contact the IntegraMOD Team. |
| Meta Tags + |
Here is an opportunity to
add search engine information to hopefully boost your position in the
global ratings. |
| Optimize DB |
Enable Cron and set to how
often you'd like your DB to be optimized, this will help make your
forum run smoother. |
| Welcome PM |
Here you can edit the
Private Message each new user receives. |
| Qbar |
This is the hub of you site
navigation. You have a variety of ways to show links on your site and
Qbar also can set permissions as to who sees those links. |
| Rating System |
In order to allow users to
rate post and images you need to set 'Rating system active' to Yes. Then
click Update configuration at the base of this block. |
| Restore
Database |
It is worth noting this tab
- if you have previously backed up your database and your site has need
to return to a previous state - you can upload you database backup here. |
|
Group Admin |
| You
can set specific groups here to allow private forum, or groups when
user's have given a set number of posts |
| IM
Portal |
|
Masterdavid created a superb system which allowed phpbb owners a portal
system that could offer a highly customisable web system. This offers a
continuity of layout throughout the site, and new pages can easily be
constructed whilst maintaining the overall professional presentation.
Integrating this with with the other phpBB based MODs make IntegraMOD a
formidable package. |
| Blocks
Management |
- Selecting IntegraMOD
Default, you are shown the main block structure for the majority of your
site. Caution should be taken here as Deleting a block may delete it
forum-wide.
- Edit - when clicked on a specific block line, will take you to the
configuration of that block. You can change the block title here, and
you may wish to change the names of 'IntegraNews' For you portal news
column, and 'Welcome to IntegraMOD' to something more pertinent to
your site. If you do change the title , you may need to set the Localize
Titlebar to 'No'.
- Most of the blocks have preset code in the site files, however you
will see that the 'Welcome to IntegraMOD' block has content you can
easily change, making its either BBcode based or HTML.
- It is worth noting - the cache for the following blocks must be set to
No (disabled);- Board Navigation, IntegraNews, Recent Topics and Who is
Online. |
| Delete Cache
Files |
This enables
the portal to take the latest information from the Forum to be displayed
around the site. I would be would clicking this after you have updated
you Blocks management section. |
| Portal
Configuration |
- Default Portal Page -
Although not at first, you may build a portal page that you wish to be
the home page of the site other than the current one. If so you can set
this here.
- Links -> Style - You can decide whether you wish scrolling or static
links on your portal page. the same applies for the Recent Topics block.
- Search option - Forum text - The portal search block at the bottom of
the left hand column, can search your site, or send a search request to
Google. Change IntegraMOD to a short tile for your own site.
- Display users who didn't visit - Although not initially, as you site
grows you may want to remove the tick in this box. |
|
Knowledge Base |
| The
Knowledge Base is an incredibly useful way of collecting and displaying
articles of interest to your site visitors. Users can post articles
which can be approved before being displayed in the portal. |
| Configuration |
- KB Moderator Group - It is
worth setting this to Admin
- Forum ID - it is worth making a forum specifically for knowledge base
articles, and then reference it here.
- Allow Ratings and Allow Comments, both add extra feedback to the
article creators. |
|
Donors Admin |
|
When you set up you PayPal IPN and configure this section, your
Donations Block will link users to PayPal in the hope they like your
site :) |
|
Languages |
|
When you have more than one language to offer users, this can offer
greater manipulation of your lang files. |
|
Links |
| You
can configure how users can offer links to outside your site an upload
images to further highlight them. |
|
News Management |
|
Your portal contains a comprehensive news display system, allowing
topics to be shown categorised, in archive form or as latest news from
from the site. Also included is an RSS News feed system to allow news
from your forum to be displayed on others' sites without any further
input from you! |
| Categories |
You will need to add at
least one category in order for your News system to start functioning.
Click on Add New News Category, where you will need select an image an
give the category a title. You can upload your own images to the
images/news/ directory. |
| Configuration |
- News Mod Base URL - set
this to the exact URL of your portal.php (e.g.
http://www.mysite.com/forum/portal.php)
- News Mod Index File - make sure this is portal.php
- Enable RSS Syndication - although very useful, you may not wish your
news so easily accessible by others. Is so, set this button to 'No' |
|
P.C.P. |
| The
Profile Control Panel is exactly what it says, but
adds more functionality, information and individuality to your forum. By
defining more fields that relate to users, more enjoyment and
understanding takes place. Initially you will probably not wish
to touch this. However there is now the PCP Wizard,
which can help the intermediate Board Founder flourish. |
|
Photo Album |
|
Smartor's Photo album is a useful feature on the site. It provides
Personal and Public Galleries that can also update the homepage and a
part of the Users Profile. You can set a watermark to be used to protect
the copyright of the images from your site. |
| Categories |
You will need to make at
least one Category in order to use the public Galleries. You can also
set user permissions as to who can upload and view these galleries. |
| Clear Cache |
It is worthwhile clearing
your thumbnail cache, especially after every time you change any album
settings. |
| Configuration |
You can set up maximum sizes
for downloads here, with the options for multiple uploads.
- Maximum number of files user can upload at a time
- Initially set at one you can allow many uploads from one entry point.
- Optimize for the version of GD - Most of
the latest versions of Linux have GD2 which we have placed by default.
You can tell your GD version by looking in ACP/Security/Info:GDlib. It
is important to get this correct or your images will be poor. |
|
Prillian |
|
Prillian is a cross some where between a chat system and a PM system. It
can give you instant message that pop up in front of you to Keep you on
the story. Some would rather disable it. Here are the settings to
disable Prillian:- |
| Configuration |
Enable Instant Messaging
System No
Enable Network Messaging system No
Override user settings Yes |
|
Pseudocron |
|
Pseudocron is you IntegraMOD internal clock. It Keeps ticking and sets
up the sending out of Digests to users. This need to be set to On to
promote better automation. |
|
Statistics |
|
Here you can configure how you would like to see your Statistics page,
and add more or remove items. |
|
Styles Admin |
|
This is partly left over from the phpBB days, but of importance is
Banner Admin where you can setup rotating banners on your site, and
specify, the complete running of a banner ad campaign |
|
Subscriptions |
|
Organise subscriptions to individual forums though this control panel |
|
Tools |
| PHPInfo |
This is a very useful
diagnostic page if faults arise and |
|
User Admin |
|
This final section really helps to manage you users and any bad
influences too. |
| Admins & Mod's |
A useful quick reference as
to how many users hold levels of authority. Remember this should also
concur with the Security MOD/Special Settings. |
| Ban Control |
You can ban or un-ban
individuals, IP Addresses or whole IP domains. You will also find that
the security mod will add IPs and Users if there are hacking attempts or
the user enters the wrong password too many times. |
| Disallowed
Names |
Enter names here you do not
wish to be used one the forum as they are either rude, or are close to
other members of the forum. |
| Junior Admin |
Sometime you wish to give
members Admin responsibilities but not the whole show. You can give
Junior Admins as much or as little power as you wish. To make a junior
admin, find their name in the Junior admin user list. Then click Edit
Modules beside their name. You will now see every admin function
available. Simply tick the boxes to which powers you wish the person to
have. No Junior admin or admin can change who the board founder is on
your board but caution should still be observed as they may have access
that could damage the boards reputation. |
| Manage |
On this section, enter a
user's name and you will be able to amend any aspect of that persons
profile, including their password, username, and points accumulated. |
| Permissions |
Here you can give individual
users certain rights to particular forums. You must remember that if you
make someone and admin or a moderator of a forum, they will not be able
to access the forum until you have entered a minimum number of admins or
mods in the Security module.
If You wish to give someone full Admin access to your site, you enter
their username here, and then at the top of the page is a menu. Change
their status from User to Administrator, and submit. Again Security
restrictions apply. |
| Points
Configuration |
You can give users points
for the number of posts and replies they have made. These points can be
named whatever you like and can be awarded via posting, user to user
donation, paypal donation, Admin donation (where points can also be
deducted) and through additional mods where points can be one or used as
payment. |
| Private
Messages |
Here you have access to
every message that has been sent and receive until its owner has deleted
it. A point of not that before a pm has been read, it is only one, but
is duplicated once read, one for the sender and one for the recipient.
This is where admin discretion needs to be the better part of Valour if
you dare read anyone else's PM! |
| Prune users |
You can automatically set
limits for users to be pruned off the forum, or you can manage them by
hand. Caution, some may be regular visitors, just not good posters. |
| Ranks |
When Rank images are
uploaded to your server they appear in the dropdown list for you to
select a hierarchy of staff and users. The may be set manual, or by
number of posts they have made. Do note that changing someone the Site
Admin here does not give any admin level permissions. |
| User list |
This is a comprehensive list
of all your users, able to be sorted in most formats. Selecting Open
will also allow you to manage, set permissions or contact them via
e-mail or PM. If you tick the box beside them you will find a dropdown
menu at the bottom of the table where you can Ban, add to a group,
activate, deactivate or delete those you have selected. |
| Inactive Users |
A colourful page devoted to
the most lethargic users! |
Thank you to all of the IntegraMOD team for their help, patience and devotion to the cause.
If
you have any further questions, please feel free to discuss them with us at
www.integramod.com
Please remember that this is Free Open-Source software and the IntegraMOD
team has worked extremely hard over the past months and years to make it as good
as it is. Your help would be appreciated by joining and supporting other users in
anyway you can.
