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