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Topic: Allowed to alter footer message?

At the botoom of the forum, it says:

Powered by PunBB, supported by Informer Technologies, Inc.

I would like to remove the "supported by..." part. I do not mind leaving the message "Powered by PunBB", it wouldn't feel right taking somebody else's work without giving credit wink

I just don't want people thinking that my site is actually "supported" by someone else!

Would it be allowable to either remove that part, or change it to something like "Powered by the PunBB forum software by Informer Technologies, Inc."?

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Re: Allowed to alter footer message?

Just try to put "Powered" in search field, you will marvel at what you will see.

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Re: Allowed to alter footer message?

Open your languages folder (ex. lang/English) and find fille common.php

Find in it:

'Powered by'                =>    'Powered by %s, supported by %s.',

And replace with:

'Powered by'                =>    'Powered by %s Forum Software by %s.',

Or what you want...

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Re: Allowed to alter footer message?

antonio wrote:

Just try to put "Powered" in search field, you will marvel at what you will see.

I didn't marval at what I saw, not even when I did that before posting this topic.

I saw all sorts of topics related to other issues -- footer mods, workarounds and bug fixes, and how to remove/change the "Powered by" message, but those don't answer my question.

What I want to know is if I'm allowed to change/alter it. Once again, I don't want to completely remove the message, I just want to get in trouble by removing the part saying that my forum is supported by someone I don't know.

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Re: Allowed to alter footer message?

Piki: My bad, in that case read this.

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Re: Allowed to alter footer message?

you can also edit footer.php and put message according to your requirement

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Re: Allowed to alter footer message?

editing core files - the wrong way

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Re: Allowed to alter footer message?

hcs wrote:

editing core files - the wrong way

i am sorry, i don't know any other way, can you please help me with that.

Thanks,

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Re: Allowed to alter footer message?

I've wrotten ^.

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Re: Allowed to alter footer message?

Trace wrote:

Open your languages folder (ex. lang/English) and find fille common.php

Find in it:

'Powered by'                =>    'Powered by %s, supported by %s.',

replace with:

'Powered by'                =>    'Powered by %s',

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Re: Allowed to alter footer message?

Ah, I can feel better knowing an admin doesn't object wink

Though wouldn't modifying lang/English/common.php technically be considered editing a core file since English is the default included language in PunBB?

I actually have it set to:

'Powered by'                            =>      'Forum software: %s by %s.',

Seems reasonable to me smile