Any Phpbb Gurus Here?

[klikster]

I recently bought a script which has PHPBB included as one feature. I'm really not understanding how to change it's styles .. specifically, the text color.

I have located the appropriate code .. and peered into subsilver.css and a file called subsilver.cfg. Both seem to set styles. What I'm trying to do is change the terrible brown text in the forum descriptions. No matter what I change, it doesn't seem to work.

For some reason, the PHPBB Admin panel will not export changes directly, so I'm supposed to save and upload that *.cfg file that the process creates. Doesn't seem to work.

I've Googled around a bit and can't seem to find an answer.

[unomi]

I recently bought a script which has PHPBB included as one feature. I'm really not understanding how to change it's styles .. specifically, the text color.

I have located the appropriate code .. and peered into subsilver.css and a file called subsilver.cfg. Both seem to set styles. What I'm trying to do is change the terrible brown text in the forum descriptions. No matter what I change, it doesn't seem to work.

For some reason, the PHPBB Admin panel will not export changes directly, so I'm supposed to save and upload that *.cfg file that the process creates. Doesn't seem to work.

I've Googled around a bit and can't seem to find an answer.

subsilver is a theme? is that the one you are currently using?

quickest way would probably be to look at view page source from a browser and peering near the top to see which CSS files are included.

Something like : http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/ would let you see which color code is used (hopefully) for the text so you could search thru your files for instances of that color and change as you see fit.

[onethailand]

You need to go into /installdirectory/styles/subsilver/themes and edit stylesheet.css - without seeing how your phpBB is set up it's hard to say. However, the main color will be in "body" - any item which has a "color" setting will directly affect the font color.

Now once you've done that, you will need to go into phpBB admin, click on styles/themes/subsilver/edit - and then just hit save, and it will automatically load any new changes to the files - editing the file through admin directly often does not work.

Which version of phpBB are you using?

[klikster]

@onethailand

Thanks for the help. I finally got in touch with the script owner and somehow they are ignoring the subSilver.css in favor of another in a different directory. The thing that had/has me going in circles is that, apparently, PHPBB is built on a template engine and I don't understand those critters.

Again, thanks for taking the time to help.

Edited April 17, 2008 by klikster

[onethailand]

Aha.

In which case you need to go into the admin and see which style is selected - once you discover that you will know which directory to mess about in

Good luck.

[Simmo]

Firebug is a great addon for firefox for working with css. Makes editing and debugging a breeze.

[klikster]

Aha.

In which case you need to go into the admin and see which style is selected - once you discover that you will know which directory to mess about in

Good luck.

This script is so oddly configured that I'm going to hold my breath, close my editor very carefully and back away as gingerly as possible .. much like the time we almost detonated a live anti-tank mine buried in the road leading to our camp in 'Nam.

[onethailand]

Aha.

In which case you need to go into the admin and see which style is selected - once you discover that you will know which directory to mess about in

Good luck.

This script is so oddly configured that I'm going to hold my breath, close my editor very carefully and back away as gingerly as possible .. much like the time we almost detonated a live anti-tank mine buried in the road leading to our camp in 'Nam.

LOL - if you want a bit of help, PM me.