Thursday 31 December 2009

Making changes to overall_header.php in phpBB do not take effect

I have been, for some time, trying to make changes to the code in the header file for phpBB. These were not changes for functionality, rather links required to other parts of the site.

Anyway, I had made the changes locally in my local copy of the overall_header.php file of the prosilver theme, but I ftp'd them up, the changes didn't happen.

Frustrated, I spent some time checking what phpBBs admin area said was in the file using the built in editor, and it said my changes were done.

However, what it doesn't say is that once you've made any changes to page files or style documents, you have to run the PURGE ALL feature from the admin control panel to flush out cached copies!

Ran that, and hey presto, fixed.

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