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[JackMicro]

I've just installed the forum, and still have the "phpBB" picture at the top left corner. How do I change it to one of my pictures?

[MarkTheDaemon]

Open root/templates/your template/overall_header.tpl
Find:

<tr>
<td><a href="{U_INDEX}"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/logo_phpBB.gif" border="0" alt="{L_INDEX}" vspace="1" /></a></td>
<td align="center" width="100%" valign="middle"><span class="maintitle">{SITENAME}</span><br /><span class="gen">{SITE_DESCRIPTION}<br />&nbsp; </span>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0">
<tr>

- To change the extension, filename, or path of the logo, edit the text in green
- To change where the logo hyperlink goes, edit the text in red. Replace with http://www.yoursite.com. You may also wish to change the alternative text (orange) to reflect the new location. (ex. 'Portal', 'Home', etc.)
- To change the logo, just overwrite the {root}/templates/subSilver/images/logo_phpBB.gif file with your own

[JackMicro]

Sry, I'm a newbe, go easy one me. Where can I find the root directory? In the administrator site?

[Marshalrusty]

Jack, are you on a free host? Can we get a link to your board?

[JackMicro]

forum.banana.se/phpBB2

[Marshalrusty]

You have FTP access, right? The root folder is the main phpBB folder (the one with config.php).

[JackMicro]

You have FTP access, right? The root folder is the main phpBB folder (the one with config.php).

Ok, thx. How do I open the over_header.tpl file?

EDIT: When I dubble-click the file in the FTP program a page pops up and you can read:

<div align="center"><span class="copyright"><br />{ADMIN_LINK}<br />
<!--
We request you retain the full copyright notice below including the link to www.phpbb.com.
This not only gives respect to the large amount of time given freely by the developers
but also helps build interest, traffic and use of phpBB 2.0. If you cannot (for good
reason) retain the full copyright we request you at least leave in place the
Powered by phpBB line, with phpBB linked to www.phpbb.com. If you refuse
to include even this then support on our forums may be affected.

The phpBB Group : 2002
// -->
Powered by <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/" target="_phpbb" class="copyright">phpBB</a> &copy; 2001, 2005 phpBB Group<br />{TRANSLATION_INFO}</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

[Marshalrusty]

Download it and use a plain text editor such as Wordpad to edit it.

[jwunderly]

You have FTP access, right? The root folder is the main phpBB folder (the one with config.php).

Ok, thx. How do I open the over_header.tpl file?

1. Download it to your computer
2. Using a text editor (like url=http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm]NotePad++[/url]), makes the edits.
3. Upload it and test

[KevC]

You have FTP access, right? The root folder is the main phpBB folder (the one with config.php).

Ok, thx. How do I open the over_header.tpl file?

EDIT: When I dubble-click the file in the FTP program a page pops up and you can read:

<div align="center"><span class="copyright"><br />{ADMIN_LINK}<br />
<!--
We request you retain the full copyright notice below including the link to www.phpbb.com.
This not only gives respect to the large amount of time given freely by the developers
but also helps build interest, traffic and use of phpBB 2.0. If you cannot (for good
reason) retain the full copyright we request you at least leave in place the
Powered by phpBB line, with phpBB linked to www.phpbb.com. If you refuse
to include even this then support on our forums may be affected.

The phpBB Group : 2002
// -->
Powered by <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/" target="_phpbb" class="copyright">phpBB</a> &copy; 2001, 2005 phpBB Group<br />{TRANSLATION_INFO}</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

That's the overall_footer.tpl (ie the bottom of the page). You need the overall_header.tpl.

[JackMicro]

Yes, I noticed that

I've done what you suggested. Downloaded it and opend it with notepad, maked the changes, and then uploaded it again. But the result was that the old picture dissapeard and the text: "forum.banana.se Forum Index" replaced it. Instead of the picture which is located at "phpBB2/images/bananaloga.jpg".

[Marshalrusty]

The path should be "images/bananaloga.jpg", not "phpBB2/images/bananaloga.jpg". If that still doesn't work, please post exactly what you replaced the code with.

[JackMicro]

<td><a href="{U_INDEX}"><img src="images/bananalogoa.jpg" border="0" alt="{L_INDEX}" vspace="1" /></a></td>

[Marshalrusty]

Assuming that the image is actually in that folder, that should work fine. Note that there are two 'images' folders. You are saying it is in the first one, not the one in the templates folder.

[JackMicro]

I've fixed it, it was a typing-error

Thx for your help, though.