phpFox Corporate & Development Updates

Hello,

Hope everyone had a great start on their new year!

I would like to announce that we have updated our Forum Rules. What we have done is that we removed the rule about affiliation links in signatures and also took away the rule that you have to have a license in order to join the forums. Since having a license is a requirement to get to the forums at all, this does not count as a rule; but more like a statement.

We also added the “Third Strike Rule” which can be found right under the “General Forum Rules”.

To view our Forum Rules please visit:

http://forums.phpfox.com/forumdisplay.php?f=10

We are pleased to announce Pirate Reports has taken over our piracy division and will handle all current and future piracy related cases.

Pirate Reports has worked with our company in the past and have always been on top of things so we are really happy to have them working with us again.

If you come across a site you suspect is running a pirated version of our product you can report the site here or attempt to validate their site here.

Time has come and a year has gone, guys this year was a fantastic year for us at Benc Enterprises and me personally meeting many of you was just a marvelous experience! Many laughs I wont easily forget and many folks that made a difference in my life…

To all of you, from us all at Benc Enterprises we want to wish a very happy new year! full of joy and great experiences!

New Year’s Reflections
Looking back on the months gone by,
As a new year starts and an old one ends,

We contemplate what brought us joy,
And we think of our loved ones and our friends. Recalling all the happy times,

Remembering how they enriched our lives
We reflect upon who really counts,
As the fresh and bright new year arrives.

And when we ponder those who do,
we immediately think of you.

Thanks for being one of the reasons We’ll have a Happy New Year!

By Joanna Fuchs

May all your personal enterprises blosson in sound success!!

Purefan is the first employee to come aboard and join phpFox with me and I have had the pleasure to have worked with him for several years now and he has been an outstanding co-worker and employee.

I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate Purefan as yesterday he completed his final exam and got his bachelor degree as an Information Technologies Engineer.

We are all proud of you and pleased to be able to work with such an amazing and hard working person.

Keep it up!

While working on the changes for the branding removal, Anna had mentioned clients were requesting from time to time to remove their Pending Invoices. Since this was not possible to do directly from our clients area we needed to do it from our Admin CP.

You now have the option to delete any of your own pending invoices direct from our Clients Area.

While working on the install script for phpFox2 I wanted to introduce the ability to auto install the “Branding Removal” (formally known as License Removal). In order to do this the script will need to connect to our database and check if a client has a branding removal for the specific site they are installing. Currently this is not possible since there is no way to verify which branding removal belongs to which product license. The only way we can check is to do a count on how many branding removals a client has compared to how many licenses they own.

What I have done now is updated our Clients Area with the feature to connect your branding removal to one of your product licenses. Before being able to download the branding removal you must connect it to a license. Once connected and if you have multiple licenses you may change the connection of your branding removal with other licenses. If you change the domain for your license the branding removal will automatically change as well.

This new feature helps us auto install the branding removal for you with phpFox2 thus creating an even easier setup process as well as allow us to keep track of all the branding removals being used.

To setup your Branding Removal(s) visit our Clients Area.

Hey guys!

Saw a post in the forums yesterday and thought that even while it is very easy to backup a site some might not be aware of how to do it, so instead of writing a step by step tut I thought a video would explain it better so here it is:

Backup phpfox sites

Hope its clear enough and you can all profit from it

We have now released a Chinese Language Package thanks to a good working contributor(who wish to be anonymous). We appreciate the time he took to translate the phpFox Software and are very impressed how fast he translated the entire phpFox on such a short time.

If you use the Language Package we hope you enjoy it.

All the best!

DOWNLOAD CHINESE LANGUAGE PACKAGE HERE.

This modification allows you to approve new members to your site.

:: Steps to Install ::

Download the plug-in then extract it and then upload all the folders to your root directory of your phpFox site.

:: Where and How to Approve New Members ::

You approve new members in your Admin Panel, in the left panel at the bottom there will be a button called APPROVE USERS, right under the subtitle PLUG-INS.

Then simply check the checkbox and click “Approve” or “Delete”

:: How it looks for the pending users ::

Once the new user has signed up and you have yet approved him/her, then they will receive this message when they try to login:

Any questions let me know.

Download Plug-in

EDITED last 15th Dec, 2008:

- Updated the download link.

- Updated the plug-in to send e-mail notification for the registrants if they were approved or not. The phrases are included in the Language Manager, so you can edit the message to the approved/declined registrant and the title of the message.

Some of you may have noticed the “6 months of Free Support & Upgrades” added to your “Extras” list as of November 7th, 2008. This has been added for all clients whether you purchased a license before Nov.7 or before January 1st, 2008 which is when we changed our lifetime Support & Upgrade contract to one (1) year.

To clarify, if you have purchased a phpFox “Full License” after November 7th, 2008 you will get 6 months of free upgrade and support. If you have purchased your phpFox “Full License” after January 1st, 2008 you will get 1 year of free upgrades and support from November 7th, 2008. Thus you will receive support until November 7th, 2009. If you have purchased a phpFox “Full License” before January 1st, 2008 you will continue to receive lifetime upgrades and support. If you have purchased a “Monthly” license then you will receive upgrades and support during the validity of your license.

If your Support & Upgrade contract expires the renewed cost is $49.95, which entitles you for another 6 months of support and upgrades. In order to be a part of our community (User-User Support) you do not need a renewed Support & Upgrade contract.

The initial change from lifetime support and upgrades is due to the fact that we want to improve our methods of support as well as bring in more developers for the continued development of phpFox2.

We are still working on integrating our Support Suite and Clients Area so many of the changes are not yet complete. If you run into any problems or have any questions please feel free to contact us.

Thanks and have a great weekend!