Profile Settings
Date Format
Time Zones
Avatars
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Profile Settings
To edit your profile, click the small Profile
link at the top of any page.
You must be logged in to edit your profile.
To make changes to your profile,
change the values on the form and click Submit at the bottom of the page.
Username - Your username on the board,
the name you use to log in.
You may change this name if the board administrators allow it.
For more info, see "User and Forum basic settings".
Email - The email address your account is registered to.
All emails from the board to you will go to this email address.
You may change the email address if you like.
If you change your email address and the board is using User activation,
then you will need to activate your changed email address.
You will be sent an email (to the new address) with an activation link if this is the case.
Password - The password you use to log in.
If you change your email address or password,
you must enter your current password.
If you are changing your password you will need to enter the new
password twice to verify it.
Fields in the Profile Information are self-explanatory.
Always show my Email Address - If Yes a link to
email you will appear in your profile.
If set to No, the link will not appear.
Hide your online status - If Yes you will not be visible to normal users
in the Who is Online? list at the bottom of the Forum Index.
Always notify me of replies - If Yes then the
Notify me when a reply is posted checkbox on the
posting form will be checked by default.
You may still uncheck it each time you post.
Notify on new Private Messages - If Yes an email will be
sent to your registered email address each time you receive a private message.
Pop up window on new Private Messages - If Yes
you will see a pop up window notifying you of new
Private Messages you receive while browsing the forums.
Always attach my signature - If Yes then
the Attach signature checkbox on the posting
form will be checked by default. You may still uncheck
it each time you post.
Always allow BBCode - If Yes then
the Disable BBCode in this post checkbox on the posting
form will be unchecked by default.
You may still check it each time you post.
Always allow HTML - If Yes then
the Disable HTML in this post checkbox on the posting
form will be unchecked by default.
You may still check it each time you post.
Always enable Smilies - If Yes then
the Disable Smilies in this post checkbox on the posting form
will be unchecked by default.
You may still check it each time you post.
Board Language - Selects the language of board
messages/text. Any text from other users or administrators
is unaffected.
Board Style - Selects the style that the board.
This setting will not work if the administrator has turned on
Override user style
(for more information, see "General Board Settings")
Date Format
phpBB 2.0.0 allows you to specify the date format that you see on the board.
This is done by allowing you to specify the format using the PHP syntax.
For full details on how this works, see
http://www.php.net/date.
The date string is a series of letters and punctuation.
Each letter will be replaced with a part of the current date and time,
and the punctuation is used to organize this information in a way
that makes sense to you.
The default string for this field is "D M d, Y g:i a"
This will display your date in the form Sat Apr 09, 2002 4:09 am.
All of the punctuation and spacing remains intact,
and each letter is replaced with part of the date/time.
D is the first three letters of the day of the week.
M is the first three letters of the month name.
d is the numerical date, with leading zeroes.
Y is the year, four-digit format.
g is the hour,
12-hour format without leading zeroes.
i is the minutes, with leading zeroes. a is am/pm, in lowercase letters.
To see the complete list of letter substitutions,
go to http://www.php.net/date.
Time Zones
To have the board time show correctly,
please select your time zone.
The time in phpBB 2.0.0 does not work with Daylight Savings Time,
so if you have Daylight Savings Time, add 1 to your GMT modifier.
So if you are in GMT-5 and have DST, you will need to set your time zone to GMT-4.
Avatars
Avatars are small pictures that display each post.
Each user may choose his/her own avatar.
However, permission to allow users to have avatars
is controlled by the board administrator.
Each of the following settings may be enabled/disabled in the Administration Panel
(for more information, see "Avatar Settings").
Gallery Avatars - You may choose your avatar
from a gallery of avatars. The gallery is a
collection of avatars stored on the server that the board is
running on. To select an avatar from the gallery,
click Show Gallery.
You may use the dropdown list at the top of the gallery
to navigate between categories of avatars.
To choose an avatar, check the radio button underneath it
and click Select Avatar.
Remotely Linked Avatars - You may use an image that is
hosted on another site as your avatar.
To do this, just enter the URI into the text field.
It is recommended that the images are small and do not deform
tables or distract people. Administrators have the ability to block specific
users from having an avatar (for more information,
see "User Management").
Uploaded Avatars - If you have an image that you would
like to use, you may upload the image to the server that the board is on.
You may upload an image on your computer by clicking the Browse button.
You may also upload an image by entering the URI that the image is located at.
Uploaded images have an admin-controlled limit on file size and image size
(for more information, see "Avatar Settings").
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