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Hello, I have few questions about templates in 2.2: 1. Will there be a cfg file that can be executed on theme initialization? Something like subSilver.cfg in 2.0 (very handy to add own tpl variables and switches based on current user status. for example this was can be used in 2.0 to show in header ...

in page_header.php put this code: ob_start(); include($phpbb_root_path . 'inc/footer.inc'); $footer = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); then find this code in page_header.php: $template->assign_vars(array( and put after that: 'MY_FOOTER' => $footer, and then in tpl files use {MY_FOOTER} where you ...

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Will COPPA be optional in 2.2 (enabled by default), so admin could turn it off? or also hack will be required?

soxie wrote:There's a new phpBB? I thought this one was just abducted by aliens.

You are mistaken. I have nothing to do with it.

I'm not a phpBB developer, but i'm creating styles for it and thanks to phpbb i'm getting lot of web design work. Almost all my clients come from different phpBB forums that use my styles.

Yo. wrote:Most of the program logic should be moved to templates. You should be able to customize as many things as possible without having to hack the code.

Completely agree with that.