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Hi :) Actually (since a few years in reality), there is no place to post a feature request for phpBB :) phpBB 3.0 is feature frozen (it means that no new features will be added in the core and that the developpers are only fixing the bugs before a final release). A feature tracker may open after Oly...

Aren't private messages better and simpler for that ? :P Just contact an admin or a moderator: moreover normal members won't be "annoyed" by topics which are not for them ;) If you really need such a feature (it may be usefull or even needed for some things, OK), then you'll have to code i...

I want to get practice using the automatic install and uninstall member functions of mod classes. I want to see if there are any bugs in the way these are implemented and prepare myself as necessary. Automatic install and uninstall are not implemented yet and won't be before 3.2 IIRC. install() and...

{T_AVATAR_PATH} is just the path to the avatar directory, not to user's avatar ;) There is no defined variable by default... if you really want one, add in memberlist.php (I assume you talk about the viewprofile...), around line 518 (after 'AVATAR_IMG' => $poster_avatar, ) that line : 'AVATAR_IMG_PA...

The coding guidelines may help you too
If you already know PHP a bit, phpBB's code is not that hard to learn (except perhaps for some parts such the template engine or the module system... those ones may require some "advanced" skills to understand them perfectly...)

Topic author can only (if he has the relevant permission) lock his own topic. He cannot unlock them after (except if he has the moderative permission). So if an admin or a moderator lock a topic, the author won't be able to unlock it

Have you checked the permissions of the forum with ID 2 ?

It's normal
If the relevant permission is set to yes, topic authors can lock their own topics

The username is already available in every page :) Use the variable {S_USERNAME} ;) However, if you want the colored username with link to the profile, you must add in functions.php, in the page_header function (line ~3935, after the S_USERNAME declaration): 'S_USERNAME_FULL' => get_username_string(...

Thanks for the reply Meik. But can you explain why please ? I don't see any disadvantage and moreover the text in the UCP makes think that at least the default style (i.e. proSilver) highlights friends.