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When customizing your site and its behavior, you do not want to forget the user registration settings. From within the administrative dashboard<\/em> in phpBB<\/strong>, you can tailor the settings for such features as password width, username width, the number of posts a user must hit before no longer being considered \u2018new\u2019, etc. This article discusses all the different settings found for user registration<\/strong> in your phpBB<\/strong> 3.0 site.<\/p>\n

Setting up User Registration Settings in phpBB 3.0<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Log into your phpBB admin dashboard<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. From there, click on the General<\/strong> tab if the screen is not already focused on it.<\/li>\n
  3. Once you land on the General tab you will see several categories listed on the left hand sidebar. Click on the User Registration Settings<\/strong> link found under the Board Configuration<\/em> category.
    \"user<\/a>\n
    <\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  4. This brings you to the User Registration Settings<\/em> page. The settings are divided up into three categories: General Settings<\/em>, General Options<\/em>, and COPPA<\/em>.
    General Settings<\/strong>
    \"general<\/a>\n
    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Account Activation<\/th>\nThis setting is the master switch and will turn the ATOM feeds either on or off entirely. This setting supercedes all other settings on the page.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    New Member Post Limit<\/th>\nEnabling this setting allows the display of individual statistics on the feed items such as views, replies, date and time, etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Set Newly Registered Users Group to Default<\/th>\nThis setting can be used to enable HTTP authentication to allow users to receive content otherwise hidden to guest users.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Username Length<\/th>\nThis setting allows you to control the minimum and maximum length of user names.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Password Length<\/th>\nAs above with the username, this setting allows you to set the minimum and maximum length of the user password.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Limit Username Chars<\/th>\nThis setting lets you set the allowed composition of the username from the dropdown. The settings are as follows: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Any Character<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Alphanumeric Only<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Alphanumeric and spacers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Any letter and number<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Any letter, number, and spacer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    ASCII (no international unicode)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Password Complexity<\/th>\nAllows you to set the required complexity of the password from the dropdown list. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    No requirements<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Must be mixed case<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Must contain letters and numbers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Must contain symbols<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Force Password Change<\/th>\n\u00a0This setting forces users to change their passwords after the set number of days. Setting this to 0 disables this feature.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    General Options<\/strong>
    \"list<\/a><\/p>\n

    <\/div>\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Allow username changes<\/th>\nSet to Yes if you wish to allow users to have the ability to change their usernames.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Allow e-mail address re-use<\/th>\nIf enabled, this allows the use of an email address for more than one user account.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Enable spambot countermeasures for registrations<\/th>\nThis requires users to pass an anti-spambot task to prove they are human, if enabled.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Maximum number of login attempts per username<\/th>\nSets the nuber of login failures that will then trigger an anti-spambot task. Setting to 0 prevents it from being triggered.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Registration attempts<\/th>\nThe number of attempts a user can try with the anti-spambot task before they are locked out of that.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


    COPPA
    \"coppa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    <\/div>\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Enable COPPA<\/th>\nEnabling this requires users to state whether they are over the age of 13 in compliance with the U.S. Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    COPPA mailing address<\/th>\nThe mailing address to which parents will send COPPA registration forms.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    COPPA Fax Number<\/th>\nFax number for COPPA verifications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    <\/p><\/li>\n

  5. Once you have your desired settings configured, click on the Submit<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Congratulations, now you know how to configure<\/em> user registration<\/strong> settings in phpBB<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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