Hello,
Have not been on the message board recently, but have been busy, never the less. I have receintly discovered php nuke, i went to Oxford to blackwells the bookshop and found a book  php nuke garage by Don Jones..
The up shot is I have got a new web site up and running in about 2 or 3 hours.. I was amazed.. but there are a few interesting quirky things.

I am not sure that the smily faces thing is working properly, and I wondered if this is a common problem on phpBB? Also It says that the message board was started in 1970?? strange. and not what i want at all, and finally the time displayed by the message board keeps being wrong, i'm on GMT + 2 can that be put right permanently? Every time i Correct it in the administration section the software seems to take no notice of me>

Of course I will be putting links on my new site to yourself very shortly, and will be adding as much interesting content to the site as I can manage.

Very many thanks for you help previously, Hope your all well in Melksham, I am still plugging away at php, mysql and php admin etc etc..

Kind Regards Julian

Sounds like a few relatively minor and permission things.  The date is probably a variable set to 0 - perhaps you edited something in the globals section and accidentally changed a name?   Is suspect a good look through the install dosc / FAQ will lead you to clues - you 're unlikely to be the first person to hit these and both PHP nuke and PHPbb are popular and commonly used.

Greetings fro Scotland  

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