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Here’s my first Pre-modded phpBB Installation.

It includes the following mods:

Tell-a-friend
Google Indexing
Hypercells
Quick Reply w/ quotes
View Recent Posts (Drop Down version)
Traditional Chinese language set and images


Curtis Sanderson's Tellafriend mod

############################################################## 
## MOD Title: enhance-google-indexing 
## MOD Author: Showscout & R. U. Serious 
## MOD Description: If the User_agent includes the string 'Googlebot', then no session_ids are appended to links, which will (hopefully) allow google to index more than just your index- site. 
## MOD Version: 0.9.1 

################################################################# 
## MOD Title: GoogleSingleSession (Add-On to enhance-google-indexing ) 
## MOD Author: - R. U. Serious 
## MOD Description: This MOD will give all 'guests' where the useragent 
##      contains 'Googlebot' one session (static session_id) 
##      Hence it will only appear as a single guest. 
## 
## MOD Version: 0.9 

######################################################## 
## 
## Title: Hypercells
## Version: 1.0.0 - final release 
## Author: Brewjah 
## Description: allows users to click anywhere in the cell to access the forum or a topic 
## and displays a hand cursor on mouse over even to SHOW that its clickable.. 
## 

##############################################################
## MOD Title: Quick Reply with Quote
## MOD Author: Smartor < smartor_xp@hotmail.com > (Hoang Ngoc Tu) http://smartor.is-root.com
## MOD Description: This will add a quick-reply form below every topics
##			It will only display when user has the Reply access
##			User have a option to quote the last message
## MOD Version: 1.1.2

##############################################################
## Mod Name:			view_recent_posts_v1_0_3.txt
## Mod Date:			2002-06-07
## Mod Title:			View Recent Posts
## Mod Version:			1.0.3
## for phpBB Version:	2.0.1
## Author:				Matthias C. Hormann <matthias@hormann-online.net>
## Description:			This mod allows viewing recent posts directly from
##						the index page. It introduces a new 'View Posts
##						from previous <selection>' on the main page,
##						directly below the 'View unanswered posts' link.
##						The selection box has the standard search selections
##						(1 day/1 week/2 weeks/1 month/3months/6 month/1 year)
##						and defaults to '1 day'.

PLS NOTE: I WILL NOT PROVIDE ANY TECH SUPPORT FOR THIS INSTALLATION. If you need help, please refer to www.phpbbhacks.com – all of these mods are available there

I’ve installed this successfully on MySQL in a Linux environment

Here’s the download:
adapon.ph/gus/segue/segue1.zip (628k)

[color=red]PLS NOTE: If you already have phpBB installed, (1) back up your files before you make any major changes to them and (2) save your original config.php someplace – if you lose this, you are really screwed. The config.php file that comes with these pre-mod is an empty file[/color]

Enjoy!