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Hi all,

tonight I've blesedly found this great, incredible software, I'm happy about that because it's exactly what I need and what I've searched for many hours! I've installed the UseBB software locally on my PC, I use XAMPP and MySQL. Almost all things are working fine... But I have some problems:

All users become administrator when they register. Can you help me, please?

Furthermore there seem to be some little bugs (or I'm stupid): I'm German, and my date format is "d.m.Y, G:i", but all dates are displayed without the dots, even when I use another character.

(Another issue I've forgotten now...)

And I've a question: I want to "stretch" the board over the whole window (oh my English , sorry, I'm ashamed), you know what I want to say? How can I achieve that, which file how I have to change?

Thank you so much!

Data

Oh, the date format seems to appear correct now. Maybe the board has self-healing abilities... I've played a little bit, deleted all cookies and so on...

But the "administrator problem" still appears.

By the way, it was possible for me to delete myself. When I've re-registered, I was automatically administrator!

The dots in time data only appears when I logged out - or when I logged in as the last registered user. Otherwise the dates look like this:

10 11 2007, 3:29

Another question: Is there a possibility to search time-depending, e.g. "all posts from user X for the last three days"?

If you deleted yourself and re-registered, it is probably due to the fact that when you re-registered, you become user #1 again. Try to register a couple of accounts to see if it continues.

To stretch the board you need to look in the style sheet to change width value to 100%.

You can see a list of users posts/topics by going to their profile.

As for the time, it sounds like you are just editing them from your profile. You will need to edit the global setting through the ACP ( General Configuration -> Date & Time ).

Hey, You was very quickly, too quickly!
Here comes my painfully assembled and pre-written answer (you are right with your guess):

Meantime I've solved the "admin problem" myself. I've installed a new UseBB board, and anything was okay. The reason for all these strange things was that I've deleted myself after the first installation - simply to try out whether this stupid action is possible at all... The "dotless" date format was even saved in the database! Apparently the whole system was entirely confused because of the "administrator suicide".

I've tested some configurations. The "admin problem" seems only to appear, when the "first admin" deletes itself AND(!) no further admin is in the database, otherwise - if there is another admin - the problem doesn't arise. But I'm not completely sure... I think, generally it shouldn't be possible, that any administrator can delete himself (or is "itself" correct? ).

Okay, now I want to do some modifications, amongst others increasing the text size, skipping the logout query and - above all - "broadening" the layout. I'd be pleased if you would give me a hint, at least for the last intention.

Thank You! All the best,
and go on with the developement of UseBB2!

Data

Data wrote

Okay, now I want to do some modifications, amongst others increasing the text size, skipping the logout query and - above all - "broadening" the layout. I'd be pleased if you would give me a hint, at least for the last intention.

You need to be familiar with CSS. All lay-out properties of the template are defined in the "styles.css" file. Study the other template files side-by-side with "styles.css" and edit this style sheet to reflect your needs.