phpBB2 shoutbox installation instructions

Here is a guide how you add a freeshoutbox.net shoutbox to your phpBB2 forum (like freeforums.org forums for example):

1. Create a free shoutbox at http://www.freeshoutbox.net/
2. Login to the admin panel, go to "Management" under the header "Forum Admin"
   
3. Press the "Create forum"-button without putting anything in the name box
4. Fill in these values for your new forum:
   
   Forum name: You can leave this empty, or simply put the text "Shoutbox" if you want a header, do not put the shoutbox code here or it might break your forum.
   
   Forum description: Here you should put the HTML-code you get when you login to freeshoutbox.net
   
   Category: Set in which forum category you want the shoutbox to appear.
   
   Forum status: Locked, because you are not creating a true forum but a shoutbox, this will not affect the shoutbox posting.
   
   Auto-pruning: Leave these settings at their default values
   
   Here is the forum.freeshoutbox.net shoutbox as a reference, click at the image to enlarge it:
   
   
   
5. By default everyone can view/post in the shoutbox, if you only want users that have registered in the forum to be able to post, set the forum permissions for the shoutbox "forum" to "Registered [hidden]"

I hope this will be useful for everyone that want to have a shoutbox in their phpBB2 forums, feel free to comment this article or post in the support forums if you have any further questions.