How to Customize Emoticons for phpFox

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 June 2012 10:38 Written by Stephanie Brown Thursday, 5 July 2012 12:00

This article will focus on customizing the emoticons that are used on your phpFox website.

phpFox installs with a default set of 8 basic emoticons.  You may or may not be happy with this basic set.

You will likely want to replace these basic emoticons with something a little more fun or entertaining, or even something more related to your site’s niche.

nopCommerce Tips: Your First NopCommerce Site, Part 2: Customizing Your nopCommerce Store

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 02:40 Written by Carole Bennett Thursday, 21 June 2012 12:00

Learn all about setting up a nopCommerce project in Part 1!

I’ve been using nopCommerce for my e-commerce clients since their 1.4 release. To say that it’s progressed significantly since then (version 2.5 as of this writing) is an understatement of epic proportions. The improvements in functionality and usability have been amazing, and it just keeps getting better. One of the most significant additions to nopCommerce has been the introduction of plugins and widgets. With these additions, your ability to customize your nopCommerce application is expanded immensely. With free and premium plugins/widgets available, as well as the ability to select custom themes, you’ll find that customizing nopCommerce is amazingly painless.

Let’s start with the best way to find plugins, widgets and themes for nopCommerce; the nopCommerce.com website. Under the Extensions section of the site, you’ll see that all extensions (themes, plugins and widgets) are organized by type and version of nopCommerce supported. For this instance, we’ll choose 2.5, the version we’re currently working with.

Customizing Product Enquiry Forms with FormBuilder and Products Modules

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 02:35 Written by Ken Griffith Friday, 15 June 2012 12:00

Suppose you are building a catalog website in CMS Made Simple that uses the Products Module and you want to show a contact form on each product detail page. With this little trick you can customize the Subject line of the enquiry form using FormBuilder to include the Product Name automatically.

To do this, use the standard Contact Form in FormBuilder. we look up the field id of the Subject line in your Contact Form. You can do this by checking the “show field id” option in Formbuilder’s Preferences Tab.

Let’s say for example, the field number is “40″. Now, in your product detail template just put the following FormBuilder tag:

How to Add “with (member)” to the “In a relationship” Status for phpFox

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:35 Written by Stephanie Brown Saturday, 2 June 2012 12:00

I recently had a customer ask me how to add the (user/member) name of a person a member is “In a relationship” with on their phpFox website. This article will give you a step by step guide on how to easily add this feature!

In your admincp, under the Users menu item, select Manage Relationship Statuses  (at the bottom left corner) .

Scroll down to the bottom of the list and delete the last relationship status in the list.  It should be In a relationship (English(US))     {full_name} is in a relationship (English(US))     {full_name} is in a relationship (English(US))]

How to Easily Run the Upgrade.php Script in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Monday, 30 January 2012 09:47 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Monday, 30 January 2012 12:00

In this article, I will give you a step by step guide on how to easily run the Upgrade.php script in Elgg 1.8. Sign in to your Elgg site as an Admin and follow these steps:

1. Once logged in, click on the Administration link on the topbar: