With a little time on my hands, I updated my book Mastering phpBB Administration. You can find links on the book’s page, at the bottom of any page or post on my site, or on my site’s sidebar. This covers through the latest release of phpBB, which is 3.3.7 as of this writing.
With every release, I find yet even more things to add, change or delete, along with a number of mistakes that make me wonder, “How did I miss this?” or “Why was I wrong about that for so long?” Even someone like me with twenty years on the phpBB platform can find features I hadn’t noticed or assumptions I have made that were not entirely correct. So the book is always in a process of becoming more correct.
One major change since the last edition is the renaming of the update and upgrade types. This is for the good as the old names were very misleading and I criticized them in the past. On phpbb.com’s download page you can see how they renamed the tabs. The old full package method is now the update method and the automatic update method is now the advanced update. So Chapter Nine needed quite a bit of new wordsmithing.
Otherwise, the content is pretty much the same, just new and improved. Like last time, if you bought an earlier edition, if you provide me a sales receipt I will send you a link to the new PDF version of the book.
