Website Design with

Integration to phpBB3

Preliminary Concept and Features

What Is phpBB

† phpBB™ is a well-known Open Source

forum software among the word’s leading
bulletin board systems
† Developed and maintained by phpBB
Group with worldwide community support
† phpBB2 has played an important role in
defining the success of Open Source
software in past 5 years
 for full list please see
http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/

Features
† Stable and Reliable
† Friendly User Interface, Easy to Use
† L10N (Multilanguage) Support
† Member & Permission Control
„ User registration, Grouping, ACL…
† Support Mainstream DBMSs
„ MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle…
† Cutting-Edge Template System
„ with build-in powerful Smarty engine
† Countless MODs, Totally Free
† Online Community Support
Perquisites to Use phpBB

† For Visitor
„ basic web browsing skill (clicking hyperlink,
scrolling page)
† For Moderator (maintainer)
„ edit posts with WYSIWYG style text editor
† For System Administrator
„ few DBMS knowledge
† For Developer
„ Web page design (HTML & CSS coding) skill
„ PHP dynamic scripting ability
„ DBMS maintenance / know the SQL
WYSIWYG Online Text Editor
System Requirements

† OS: Linux or Windows Server Series

† Web Server with PHP support
„ Apache2
„ PHP5
† DBMS
„ MySQL5
† FTP Service
„ Optional, for system installation
† SMTP Server
„ Optional, for mail functions
Integration to phpBB

† phpBB could be a CMS (Content

Management System)
† Maintain website by posting and
managing articles in forum
„ submit a post in corresponding forum
section to announce news
„ Edit submitted post to change specific web
page
phpBB as CMS

Submit new post here to

announce news on website
Page Generation Process

† Web pages are stored in database, as

articles
† First off, the contents are queried from
database
† Secondly, template engine “compile” the
page by using retrieved data
† Then it’s done, the completed page is
ready to be dumped out
Conceptual System
Architecture
† Frontpages
„ web pages are
rendered
dynamically
† Online Platform
„ phpBB3 core and
functionalities
Sitemap
† 訊息 † 課程
† 招生
„ 最新消息 „ 課程規劃 „ 大學部甄試
„ 高大 & 系務 „ 課程總覽 „ 大學部申請考試
„ 演講
„ 課表 „ 大學部指定考試
„ 課程
„ 大學部轉學考
„ 導覽手冊
„ 招生
„ 大學部轉系考
„ 其它
† 學生
„ 碩士班招生考試
„ 系學會
† 系所 „ 碩士班甄試
„ 榮譽榜
„ 沿革
„ 獎學金
„ 特色
„ 導生名單
† 連結
„ 目標
„ 校內各處室
„ 新生手冊
„ 發展
„ 校際相關系所
„ 留學資訊
„ 規章
„ 國內外學術組織
„ 雙學位
† 師資
„ 專任教師 † 實驗室
† 聯絡
„ 合聘教師 „ 教學實驗室 „ 系辦位置
„ 研究實驗室 „ 聯絡資訊
Templates
Tasks

† Know the phpBB3

† Design template
„ Page elements arrangement
„ Draw graphical components (images, icons)
„ Design Flash decorations
† Scripting frontpages
† Integration and Operational Test
Links

† phpBB Group http://www.phpbb.com

† phpBB3 Portal System
http://www.phpbb3portal.com
† mxBB - System Portal for phpBB
www.mx-system.com
† Smarty Template Engine -
http://smarty.php.net