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Just curious if there is anyone who could do this, or would it steer the punbb software too far down the phpBB3 track and get bloated and heavy?.

The list of forums just gets very long, and it gets hard to find stuff, and to be able to link to a category would be fantastic.

Thanks lots.

I have a version of PunBB that I have modified to suit my requirements. My question is when I do a database back up thru phpmyadmin, does this only pick up the content of the forums?. Am I right in guessing the changed punbb forum installation  files will have to be downloaded seperately via an FTP client?.

As you can see, I am way new to all this, but am reading up on it a lot, so I have the nuts and bolts of it sorted, it's just the details that are eluding me at this point.

Thank you punbb community, this is a great product, and is easy to use.

Hello punbb community.

I need to try to chop up a forum software package to use on a new business website. The site is my own idea, and is a first for my country, and I am starting it on a shoe-string budget, and as a result, and trying to do as much of the work myself, despite having very little skill.
The idea will be to enable users to list materials they have that they don't need anymore, and advertise them in front of a national audience.

  I have spent weeks chopping up phpbb, removing a heap of functionality and changing words and phrases to suit the site, but a recent crash has left me unable to restore the database successfully. I have ended up here after being recommended punbb, and did a quick installation of it, and I absolutely LOVE the software, it's clean, it's easy to understand, and seems to be a lot faster in it's execution.

My questions are:
How easy is it to chop up the coding?. I need to remove a lot of functionality that just won't be needed, but can I do this without ending up killing the software completely?.
As an example, i would be removing links like "active topics, new topics and unanswered topics from the top right hand side of the page.
   On the bottom right of the screen are "total number of posts" and "total number of topics". I would need to chop out the total posts one, and rename the other one to "total number of listings"

This was the sort of stuff I modified in phpbb, and cannot really afford to spend weeks doing it again. I was hoping punbb would be easier.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

I have been a long time phpBB user, and was told to try punbb, and so far it looks good. Is there any ongoing development and so forth for this forum software?. I was going to use it in a large scale project, and was trying to find some skins/themes other than oxygen, which is still good, but everywhere I go, the sites look like ghost towns, and clicking on images of styles just brings up mysql errors etc.  I am not being mean, or trolling, I am genuinely keen on this software, but it seems to have a fraction of the theme options of phpBB.

Am I looking in the wrong place or something?

Thanks .