PhpBB WP

Their are lot of blogs that have a floating Twitter Follow badge on the side of their pages. I was asked by one of my client to implement it’s PhpBB forum. For those who are familiar with PhpBB must be aware of the mod’s that are available for it, and complexity in their installation, as you are dealing directly with the codes modification. Moreover, i was unable to find a Mod for Twitter Badge.

Then i decided to do it the wordpress way, i explored the available options for twitter badge over various wordpress sites and fortunately i came up with a solution to do it for PhpBB. I will be covering this step by step, just follow these steps to implement a twitter badge on your site.

Create a Twitter Badge

First thing is to have a twitter badge, and this badge could be created through Go2web20. Just fill up the form and get the code by clicking on the update code button. You should have a twitter account to fill up over here, if you don’t have one get it from Twitter.

Implement the code on Forum

Now You have the code for the Badge, next work comes to implement it on the forum. In PhpBB3, you can edit the file in admin panel itself. If you are using PhpBB2 you could edit it from the control panel or on your desktop and than transfer it on server through ftp.

1. Edit, overall_footer.html file in PhpBB3 or overall_footer.tpl in PhpBB2
2. At the bottom of the file you will find
   

   </body>

   </html>

3. Place code before these line.
4. And update the file.

   Note: The badge will not appear on IE6.

We hope you like this customization from our end, we will be coming up with such more in the future.