How to Enable Invite Only Registration for your phpFox Site

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 March 2013 09:21 Written by Stephanie Brown Sunday, 24 March 2013 12:00

This article will show you how to enable Invite Only Registration for your phpFox website.

Setting your website to only allow registration by invitation is an easy way to keep your website to be usable only by a small group of members and those that they invite.

Login to your Admincp and select Settings >  Manage Settings from the menu.

How to Enable the “Remove Friend” Link in phpFox v.3.5

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 March 2013 09:51 Written by Stephanie Brown Friday, 22 March 2013 12:00

This article will show you how to enable the link on member profiles that makes it easier for your members to remove someone from their friend’s lists.

Login to your AdminCP and select Users > Manage User Groups.

How to Enable the Check-In Feature in phpFox v3.5

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 March 2013 08:28 Written by Stephanie Brown Wednesday, 20 March 2013 12:00

This article will focus on showing you how to enable the check in feature that is new in phpFox 3.5.

Login to your Admincp, and select Settings > Manage Settings from the menu.

On the Settings page, under Module Settings, select Core.

How to Optimize Your Database Tables in phpFox

Last Updated on Monday, 18 February 2013 03:37 Written by Stephanie Brown Thursday, 21 February 2013 12:00

This article will focus on optimizing your database tables within your phpFox AdminCP.

Periodically you will want to optimize your database tables, reducing the size of the database by cleaning out unnecessary “empty” space.  You can do this in a couple different ways, but we will focus on using the tools available in your phpFox AdminCP.

As always, before you make any major changes or do any maintenance to your site, it is advised that you backup your site files and/or database.

Login to your admincp and select Tools > SQL > Maintenance.

Allow Members to “Hide” from the Browse Members in phpFox v.3.5

Last Updated on Monday, 4 February 2013 03:20 Written by Stephanie Brown Monday, 11 February 2013 12:00

This article will show you how to allow members in a specific user group to hide their profile from the Browse Member page in the 3.5 version of phpFox.

phpFox released the 1st Beta of version 3.5.  This new version has some features that you may want to enable on your site.  Keep in mind, that at the time of the writing of this article, phpFox v.3.5 is in its first Beta stage, so it is not recommended that you load it on a live website.  Per your phpFox license, you can install phpFox on a live site AND on a development version of your live site in a development or phpfoxdev subfolder or subdomain.