I’m trying to locate and change/remove the ‘Powered by ExpressionEngine’ string that appears on the Forum home page by default [to try and make the site less attractive to spammers - I can see they’re searching for this then go straight to registration).

I had thought it might be in /system/expressionengine/language/english/

lang.forum.php as ‘powered_by_ee’ but changed this to no effect. Having said this I also appear to have forum_lang.php with the same stuff.

Where is this string located and do I need both of these seemingly the same file sets i.e. lang.forum.php + lang.forum_cp.php and forum_lang.php + forum_cp_lang.php?

PS Yes,have done the usual wrt denying access to the member list and I’ve also removed the member URL fields from every form I can find to make it impossible to enter or display these.

Hi wikitect,

Changing that variable in the forum language file should do the trick. You could also remove the {lang:powered_by_ee} tag from [forum theme]/forum_global/html_footer.html.

The problem is that a) I’ve done it in those 2 forum language files (I don’t know which or if both are needed) and b) my forum still shows the powered by etc on the home page hence the question.

in forum_lang.php and lang.forum.php

but http://systems-thinkers.org/forums/ still shows the HTML header that I’m trying to remove

I just edit the forum template/s:

/system/themes/forum_themes/grey/forum_global/html_footer.html

Just remove that whole block, and you’re golden. You’ll have to do this for each theme you have installed (if you allow the user to change themes).

On a side note, is there a way to completely block any and ALL access to a forum for the Guest member-group? I would love to know how.

I’m not trying to remove the thing from the footer - I’ve done that. It’s the title of the web page when the forum home is shown that contains it i.e. it’s in the <title></title> tag .... as you can see

It’s in the following bit of code:

Around line 1556 of mod.forum.php.

Thanks, Sue - this is what I needed. Shouldn’t this refer to the lang:string? Seems silly to set up constants for use elsewhere and then hard code in a text string like this.

The other part of the questions was which set of forum language files is valid? I think the naming scheme must have change for the forum module and I’ve got an old and a new set. I’d like to delete the set that is no longer needed.

Ta

Hi wikitect, the new naming scheme is the one with underscores, like forum_lang.php.

OK, so which of lang.forum_cp.php or forum_cp_lang.php is correct(both having underscores)?

See enclosed screen shot.

Are we allowed to remove the “powered by Expression Engine” items from our sites? Is this ok with the licensing?

Yes. The license only demands that all “copyright and proprietary notices and logos in the Control Panel and within the Software files must remain intact”. You can remove any reference to EE from the public parts of your site, though.