Social Engine 4: Upgrading Expired to Purchased License

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 February 2013 01:37 Written by Andrew Cross Tuesday, 26 February 2013 12:00

Have you been using a Trial Version of SE 4 and have the license expire, once purchased the core, plus blogs, forums, and photo albums modules. You need to started with the upgrade instructions, by copying files over into the existing directory structure, but you may not proceed, as any time you hit the site, You may have received the “License expired” warning. I assume this is because you have some modules enabled that you hadn’t purchased. If you try deleting the license.txt file, clearing the cache (see below), and a few other things, but got nowhere.

You need to copy the new core to a different directory, copy over from the OLD directory structure, in application/settings the following files: database.php, general.php, mail.php.

Then clear the cache, instructions here:

SocialEngine 4: How to Flush Cache Properly

Last Updated on Monday, 18 February 2013 04:33 Written by Andrew Cross Friday, 22 February 2013 12:00

Flushing Cache in SE4 is not a difficult task

Usually it is required after language change, moving site to another host or to check updated result of template

You can normally flush the catch via the admin panel but this does not always get rid of all the temporary files used.
Here are step:

SocialEngine 4: Advanced Menu System – Site Load Slow Fix

Last Updated on Monday, 18 February 2013 04:33 Written by Andrew Cross Wednesday, 20 February 2013 12:00

I ask myself why Advanced Menu System slow site loading. And after a scan for errors I found an error in
one of requested files. That file is total.php located in:

application/modules/Advmenusystem/externals/scripts/

When I opened the file i found this specific line:

How to Change the Admin Panel Logo in SocialEngine 4

Last Updated on Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:12 Written by Andrew Cross Saturday, 2 February 2013 12:00

Are you tied of see the SocialEngine Logo on your admin panel?

This is a quick and easy way to replace the Logo with your own logo.

Using an FTP Client of your choice, find the default logo here:

How to Add Different Fonts on a Web Site

Last Updated on Monday, 21 January 2013 02:51 Written by David Bauernschmidt Tuesday, 29 January 2013 12:00

In today’s web environment you have a great number of options when it comes to technologies to use, images to show, animation to run, navigation to launch, as well as many different frameworks to implement but one area that has always been fairly limited is in different fonts.  For the most part you have just a few (relatively speaking) to pick from.  You can look at sites like ampsite, MIT, webDesigndev and many others and you will find that you have about 16 fonts or so.  This has always bothered me.  You want to provide the user with a unique experience which should include fonts that are tailored to your site design.  You can create a wide range of graphics text but these are neither scalable nor search engine optimized.