SOLVED: How to Change the COPYRIGHT Line At the Bottom of a PHPBB 3.1 Site

This is a touchy subject because the good people that write PHPBB want to receive credit for their hard work… and I personally agree with that.  However, I wanted to add in my own Copyright and owner information on each page so and the easiest way to do that was to prepend my text to the PHPBB Copyright text.

The file you want to edit is:

phpBB3\styles\prosilver\template\overall_footer.html

and you want to change the

{CREDIT_LINE}

to what you want it to be.  Specifically, delete the words {CREDIT_LINE} and add in some new text.  In my case I used:

Owned and managed by <a href=”http://www.URTech.ca/”>Up & Running Technologies Inc.</a> of Calgary, Canada and powered by <a href=”https://www.phpbb.com/”>phpBB</a>&reg; Forum Software

Make sure you to go to the ADMINISTRATOR CONTROL PANEL > GENERAL tab > PURGE CACHE button, to clear the old cache, otherwise you will not see your changes when you click refresh on your browser.

You can see this fine work at www.Commodore.ca/Forum

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  • After I initially commented I appear to have clicked the -Notify me when new comments are
    added- checkbox and from now on whenever a comment is added I recieve four
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    • Hi Callie;

      Thanks for your comments. We do appreciate them, however we can't remove you from the reply list as only you have access to your settings. After playing with this for 10 minutes I enabled a setting in Comments to toggle emails on and off. The problem is our theme uses a white background and for some reason this feature uses white text and is not customizable. This means you will now see two check boxes at below the COMMENTS box and you likely want to make sure both of them are unchecked. If you drag your mouse over them you will be able to read their text.

      I hope this helps. If not, just let me know and I will chew on it some more.

      Thanks again!

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  • Well you can also just add the following lines to your styles//template/ajax.js file:

    var copy = $('.copyright').html();
    var link = copy.split("").pop();
    $('.copyright').html(link);

    Or to remove everything from the footer (incl. the acp link). One liner solution in you javascript file again:

    $('.copyright').css('display','none');

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