phpFox2 Beta 5 Released
phpFox2 Beta 5 has arrived.
Beta 5 is currently scheduled as the final Beta release for phpFox2. September 9, 2009 is when our next version will be released and it will be our first “Release Candidate”. At that point the product will be closed and no more features will be added until the next incremental version release. During the RC stage we will focus on moving all hard coded phrases into the default language package and debug all the areas of the script that have been developed thus far. During this time we will be bringing in 3rd party companies to test certain areas where it is important to gain perspective from a 3rd party.
These areas include:
- Finding Exploits/Vulnerabilities
- Search Engine Optimization
- Stress Testing / Benchmarking
We will shortly cover what is new with Beta5, if you would like to catch up with what our past Alpha/Beta versions introduced you can find more information here…
Whats new in phpFox2 Beta5
Footerbar Instant Messenger
We had initially planned on releasing a Chat module and wait with the Instant Messenger till v2.1, however we felt it was crucial to focus our efforts on the IM now as it can in the long run be transformed into a general chat gateway as well. The new IM unlike past versions is not a popup a user will have to click in order to get logged in, it is now located on our footer bar and the user is automatically logged into the IM as soon as they have logged into the site or reactivate their online status. Users can disable the IM entirely or set their site status to “online”, “away” or “appear offline”. The IM is disabled by default as we require Admins to enable this feature as it is recommended to be used on dedicated servers as this sort of feature requires a lot of interaction with the database and at a very high frequency in order to sustain an “instant messenger” environment. No requirements at the moment, however depending on benchmark tests from public sites they may/will be added at a later time. You are still unable to “pop out” the IM, which could be used to break the IM away from the footer bar; however we left that out for now as we need to test the functionality of the IM when connected to the footer bar.
To chat with another user they have to be on your friends list and logged into the site. Users can block other members and at a later time remove them from their “Block List”.
Here are some screenshots of the IM in action:
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Instant Messenger - Chatting
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Instant Messenger - Friend List
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Instant Messenger - Friend List
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Future plans for this module include:
- Link to chat with the user on their profile if they are online.
- Pager to limit how many friends can be seen on the chat list.
- Friend search.
- Emoticon Support.
- Ability to include non-friends to my chat list. (Will be developed for v2.1).
- Ability to “pop out” the chat from the footer bar. (Will be developed for v2.1).
Advanced Profile Designer
Past phpFox2 versions included the “Profile Designer”, which can be found once you login and go to “Profile >> Customize Profile”.
Thus far the profile designer has had support to select themes and custom blocks for your profile. With Beta5 it has been extended to allow you to custom design your profile using the “Advanced” or “CSS” editors we provide. The “Advanced” editor allows you to change many aspects of the profile page and the elements it contains.
Each “setting” is based on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and we provide the following support:
- Background:
- Color (Color Picker Provided)
- Image (Full URL to the Image)
- Scroll (For Image):
- Yes
- No
- Position (For Image):
- top left
- top center
- top right
- center left
- center center
- center right
- bottom left
- bottom center
- bottom right
- Repeat (For Image):
- Do Not Repeat
- Across
- Down
- Tile
- Font:
- Color (Color Picker Provided)
- Family:
- Microsoft Sans Serif
- Verdana
- Arial Black
- Arial
- Courier New
- Palatino Linotype
- Tahoma
- Franklin Gothic Medium
- Lucida Console
- Size:
- 8px
- 9px
- 10px
- 11px
- 12px
- 14px
- 16px
- Style:
- normal
- italic
- oblique
- Weight:
- normal
- bold
- bolder
- lighter
- Text:
- Align:
- left
- right
- center
- justify
- Transform:
- none
- capitalize
- uppercase
- lowercase
- Decoration:
- none
- underline
- overline
- line-through
- Align:
- Borders:
- Style:
- none
- dotted
- dashed
- solid
- double
- groove
- ridge
- inset
- outset
- inherit
- Width:
- 0px
- 1px
- 2px
- 3px
- 4px
- 5px
- 6px
- 7px
- 8px
- Color (Color Picker Provided)
- Style:
- Padding:
- Size:
- 0px
- 1px
- 2px
- 3px
- 4px
- 5px
- 6px
- 7px
- 8px
- Size:
Depending on the sub-section you are editing and the elements it contains it will include part or all of the support settings mentioned above. For the “Page Width” sub-section, this controls the width of your profile and we provide the following sizes: Default, 790px, 90% or 100%.
All changes made via the “Advanced” editor is live and will show up on your profile as soon as the changes are made. For the “CSS” editor this will allow you to add CSS code and fully control your profiles design. We provide a “Preview” link to allow users the ability to preview the CSS code on the spot.
Check out the set of screenshots to get a better idea of these new changes:
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Profile Designer - Menus
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Profile Designer - Design with BG Image
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Profile Designer - Design with 790px Page Width
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Profile Designer - CSS Editor
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Profile Designer - Advanced Editor
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RSS Module
The RSS module has been a part of phpFox since 1.6 and has been extended with Beta5 to allow other modules to interact with this module as well as giving users the ability to track their own subscribers.
The updated module includes the following set of features:
- Admins can manage RSS feeds direct from AdminCP.
- Admins can add new RSS feeds direct from AdminCP.
- RSS Feeds can be set to an active or inactive state.
- RSS Feeds can be set to be “site wide” and if they are they will included in the template headers, which browsers will identify and notify end-users if they would like to subscribe to the specific feeds.
- Modules that currently support RSS Feeds are:
- User Updates (Located on users profile and lists all the recent activity on that user if they permit it based on their privacy settings.).
- List of new Events.
- List of new Blogs.
- List of new Blogs based on the blog categories.
- List of new Forum Topics.
- List of new posts to a specific forum topic.
- Comments for each item/profile includes RSS Feed.
- RSS subscriber count on a users profile. (Privacy setting to disable).
- RSS subscriber count within dashboard.
- User can view a log to find how many subscribers they have and detailed information within a graph (Provided kindly by Google).
- AdminCP includes a log to provide information on all the subscribers on a specific feed.
Here is a set of screenshots:
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RSS Module - AdminCP Manager
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RSS Subscribers Count - Users Dashboard
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RSS Subscribers Count - Users Profile
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RSS Feed Index
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RSS Feed Log - AdminCP
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RSS Feed Log - End User
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Announcement Module Updated
Our Annoucement module has been updated since our last release and include the following changes:
- Start time stamp added, which allows Admins the ability to schedule an announcement that can be sent at a later time.
- Control if an announcement should be displayed within the dashboard or not.
- Control if a user can close an announcement or not.
- User filtering based on User group, age group, location and gender.
Mail Module Updated
Our Mail module has been updated with the following changes:
- Admins can limit how many messages a user group can have.
- There is a user group setting (Admins have this enabled by default) to bypass the setting that controls how many messages a user can have. With this enabled and if the recipient is not allowed to receive any further messages due to their inbox being full the user with the bypass setting can still send the recipient a message.
- Next/Previous buttons provided to browse messages.
- Admins can control if PM’s should only be used to send messages between friends.
- Admins can control if users can save a message to their own inbox.
- Admins can control if users can delete all their messages. The “Delete All” functionality includes all messages and not just the messages found on the current page.
- Admins can control when messages should automatically be removed from the trash can. Users will be warned how long messages can stay within the trash can before they are deleted.
- Attachments can now be added to PM replies.
Featured Members
Admins can now feature members direct from the AdminCP. Members that are featured will show up on the sites index page as well as on the main browse section. Admins can control how many featured members should show up at one time on the “Featured Members” block and if they should be randomized. If the setting to not randomize featured members is set then Admins can order users from the AdminCP.
Daylight Savings Support
phpFox2 includes support for users to modify their time zone thus allowing them to view all time stamps on the site based on their time zone. Beta5 introduces daylight savings support and is automatically enabled by default. There will be a global and user specific setting to enable/disable this feature.
Email Verification & Email Updating
Beta5 introduces “Email Verification”, which if enabled by the Admins will force users to first verify their email before their account is enabled. Once a user has registered they will recieve an email with a verification code. Once they click on the link their account will be verified and they will be able to login. Admins can control how long an email verification is valid. If the user waits too long and passes the email verification deadline setting then they will be sent a new email verification and asked to try again. Both these settings are optional and disabled by default.
Admins can browse unverified members direct from the AdminCP (Users >> Browse Users >> Show Members >> Pending Verification Members) and either resend them another email verification or automatically verify them on the spot.
Members can now change their email address from their account settings. If the feature to verify emails is enabled the user will have to go thru the entire process in order to verify their new email, however if an Admin enables the setting to allow users to browse the site and only update the new email once they have verified it, this will allow users to continue browsing the site and still use their old email until they verify their new email. Each time they login they will be notified that they have a pending email verification.
Account Deletion
Admins can now control if a user group can delete their own account (Account Settings >> Cancel Account). If a user decides to delete their account they will land on the account cancellation page and will be asked to give a reason why they are leaving the site or select one or more of the multiple reasons provided (Admins can add/edit/delete these reasons). Users will also notice 3 of their friends to let me know they will be missed and will be asked to provide their password in order to delete their account. Certain information the user is saved so Admins can view the reasons why the user left the site for constructive feedback.
This feature allows Admins to also delete members direct from the AdminCP (Users >> Browse Users).
Here is a set of screenshots:
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Managing Custom Delete Options from AdminCP
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Delete User from AdminCP
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Cancel Account
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Forum Icons
Beta5 introduces a little eye candy to the Forum module. We have included icons identifying the forum or topics state as well as a legend to guide users.
Here is a set of screenshots:
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Forum Thread and Legend
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Forum Legend
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Control of Display Name Change
Since the first release of phpFox2 users were able to change their display name (or full name). With Beta5 we introduce the ability for Admins to control if a specific user group can change their display name and if they can add an optional limit on how many times they can change it.
Avatar Picture Cropping Tool
Automatically cropping images is something we have done for awhile now and with v2 there are certain areas where we must display a sqaure image to give a clean/oganized look. Past methods of cropping an image will not work in all cases and for such cases we provide a tool for users to crop their own images to create their site wide avatar. Currently its optional, however we can see the need to create an option to make this process a requirement before their profile image is updated. Some problems and things we still need to work on is to recheck smaller images and allowing the resize box to be larger then the 50 pixel limit.
Here is a screenshot of this new feaature:
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Avatar Cropping Tool
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Group Module Update - Includes Forum Module
The Group module has been updated and now includes the Forum module fully integrated. The Forum module within the Group module includes all the same functionality the it has as a standalone module. Currently the Group module does not have any privacy settings so anyone can post a thread in a group.
Change Log
Our SVN change log can be found here.
Live Demo
View this beta demo in action here.
Download
phpFox2 Beta5 can be downloaded direct from the clients area. When you have selected a license and reached the download page look for “phpFox2 Beta5″ to download the product.
Requirements
Requirements for phpFox2 can be found here.
Developers Documentation
Our developers documentation can be found here.
Feedback & Bugs
Your feedback is appreciated, please feel free to leave them here. We also provide a bug tracker here so we can get ahead and start squashing bugs.
Good luck and Enjoy phpFox2 Beta5!
Thank you thank you thank you!
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Very nice, i love the cropping tools, would be nice if the animated winks and smilies be considered, i did post a featured request…
overall thumbss up
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cobra12512 Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
We need to have the option to make the image bigger when it comes to cropping the image…
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Peter Armenti Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
yeah, definitely necessary.. I think the post says that this will be fixed though..
“Some problems and things we still need to work on is to recheck smaller images and allowing the resize box to be larger then the 50 pixel limit.”
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Anna Eliasson Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 2:04 am
You’re completely right, Peter! Thank you for updating others
Very good work…
Just some considerations about the advanced Design toll:
- The save button should allow us to name the design and make it a theme. So we can add themes to the list and came back to it later on.
- The background images should be uploaded on the spot. The Url boxe it’s so unfriendly.
- This version only have full transparency or a color. You should add the Alpha parameter to allow percentage levels of transparency to the boxes.
Thanks
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cobra12512 Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I’m with you on all key points here, url is so not good, i rather upload an image, but i know phpfox will add that soon aswell with transparentcy..
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Anna Eliasson Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Yes, you’re right cobra12512. The users will have the options to create more themes and these themes have to - of course - be named. It is just not possible at the very moment, but will be done.
Uploading background image will be implemented. You can set the level of transparency right now, but it will require to be done via CSS. Believe a beta5 member did it here. If you want a button changing the opacity then this can be added.
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cespiritual Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Yes Anna… we really want a button for opacity
I hope we have this for RC1. And the reason is because the majoraty of our members no nothing about CSS.
Mmmmm, why did you guys change the browsing section, i liked the options we had the, like user info and send message, make friends….
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gbdc Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
you can change it back by setting “Display Results By” criteria.
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Anna Eliasson Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 2:15 am
Thank you, gbdc.
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My feature request for forum icons was to give specific icons to categories.. not just NEW, NO NEW, or CLOSED.. I meant like BUGS category you can have a picture of a bug, SPORTS category you can have a picture of a baseball or something.. like Santocki’s forum allows.. this is not going to be available? When you granted the feature request I thought this was understood. Click on this image link to know what I’m talking about.
http://www.longislandonline.com/images/forumdemo.png
I assume this doesn’t work
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Anna Eliasson Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 2:23 am
This is a part of 1.6, so it will be included in v2.
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just go here to see my post about it in the proper feature request.
http://forums.phpfox.com/project.php?issueid=2144#note12386
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So there will be MORE features added till the RC comes out? This is not locked already or is it?
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Anna Eliasson Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 2:24 am
No it is not locked yet, once RC arrives then features won’t be added.
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But, great job guys… Loving this… Keep up the great work..
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Anna Eliasson Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 2:26 am
Thank you, will notify the guys. Kudos to Raymond and Miguel! And of course, the phpFox community.
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Will we get something added like a Hi5 systeam that will have the user interact or be more active ?
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Anna Eliasson Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 2:29 am
Could you describe the exact features you are interested in from that specific system?
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thanks for the beta 5. currently on the menu only explore section have icons. but we also need icons for Home, profile, mail, friends, browse, invite section. i hoop phpfox will add that on RC1. and i see the page is refreshing whn i click on the next pag on browse section. it whould be nice if we can get ajax system there. and we are missing many icons on many section like upload new photo, rate photos, etc.. and right now on the dashboard under the profile photo its showing registerd user. it whould be nice if phpfox can add ”Change Profile Picture” instead of registerd user. maybe u can move the register users to above the profile pic. and under the submit link and manage link we mis share video, manage video. video also one of the importent thing. in the poll section after i vote its not showing the answer like yes 90% no 100%, etc. i have to click on the votes to see the resultat. its not user friendly. it whould be nice if it can show with ajax system. because going to next page to see the votes and press back button to vote other poll is Not user friendly. thats all for now. i will add more suggest if i get positive respond from phpfox.
bye
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Anna Eliasson Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 3:03 am
It might look a little congested to add the icons to the main menu, but this can already be done with beta5 within the Admin Panel. Under Extensions >> Themes >> Manage Themes >> layout >> template.html.php.
Believe more icons will be added to other sections, as this was the first round of icons we got our developer to make - wanted to see how the community would like it :).
The changing of the profile picture it’s a template case and you can just add one line of code under the image within the themes(within the Admin Panel). If your member does not change their profile image so often, then this link could be annoying. However, if you feel this is an important link to have, then please let us know it within the forums, so others can have their say.
The same thing goes for the poll votes.
Thank you,
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Peter Armenti Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 9:14 am
icons should be available for all areas that category lists or menus are present. this would be great… and it’s really not that hard to do. It’s really just another row in the database. I hope this is made available for the forums, marketplace, and other areas. very important (should be optional on the main menu as well.
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hi.. there are still no id’s on any of the lists (ul li etc) - it will be very difficult to template/theme the site through css without this.
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Anna Eliasson Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 3:29 am
Ok, we can look into this.
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Peter Armenti Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 9:19 am
giving us the availability to designate icons for categories, lists and menus in all areas would alleviate some of this necessity, but presently these options are not provided. Know what I mean? having more id’s and labels would allow us to customize the look of individual blocks and such though as well. Please advise. As much theming and skinning should be available through css as possible. On 1.5 I had to do so many hard changes in template files it was quite time consuming. Thanks.
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hi, i hope when you have finished the latest version, don’t forget to make a function to move user from social engine to phpfox.
support has been bad, nothing improves especially regarding the database issue, bloated mysql requests…mediocre but expensive…it seems like not them who wrote the codes.
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Anna Eliasson Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 3:30 am
Yes, once all the features and tasks are done. Unless, a modder does this.
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hi, everything is great till now, thanks for creating such a wonderful product. I hope all the great features that are requested by the community members would be added. i would like to see this on the user profile templates.
Admin / Community can creates themes that can be listed on one of the sections on the site. so users can choose the themes from that section and can use on their profile. this is because many of the users they feel uncomfortable using the Advanced CSS or Design tools.
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We should have a link to ‘chat with the user’ on members browse, for me it’s a must have featured.
I mean when displaying detailled members info on who’s online:
- view profile
- chat with this user
- send message
- add to friend
Also when not in detailled mode, just below the profile thumbnail :
-chat with me
-send message
This would be really nice
Dominique
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A good feature un admin area : Have a tick box near each member username to do mass action.
mass deletion, mass message, etc
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in group it would be nice to have ability to mass message the group members and also to invite group members on group event instead of friends.
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Stanley Ojadovwa Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 7:10 am
This is already been worked on by the phpfox team
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For the 3rd party review, I’d strongly suggest usability review in addition to SEO, security (exploits) & scalability (stress testing) Many are requesting usability review on the forum as well.
Just thinking of what final touches v2 would need:
- Usability for end users
- SEO for Google
- Security & Scalability for site admins
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can you enable/disable or give permissions to parts of the designer? If you don’t want people to use certain functions OR you want only certain membership groups to be able to use it? Just curious.
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shouldn’t group forums end up in the main forum module somehow as well? under groups or something? or maybe they can be assigned to certain categories if designated.. there can be 3 designations to make a groups forums.. public, private, or public to view but private to post. Know what I mean?
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Profile Designer:
We should be able to use the same CSS code that is used on myspace. Is this going to be the case? If not will there be a website where we can go to that will guarantee certain CSS code to work on our profiles if we just copy and paste it into the CSS area of the profile customization???? I tried pasting a code from myspace and a code on my current phpfox site and it doesn’t work on phpfox2. Also for the longest I’ve always wanted to be able to paste code for an image to be above my profile like you see on myspace.
Can anyone shine some light on this?
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Ernie Reply:
July 17th, 2009 at 4:23 am
Here is the link where dicussions were made about the profile page layouts and customizations.
http://blog.phpfox.com/2008/10/26/myspace-20-profiles/
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Some nice features but
No chat room
No IM except on a dedicated server
No photo gallery
Hugely limited group functionality (all the nos above plus no blog, no polls, no quizzes etc etc etc)
Would not it be useful if there was some sort of roadmap on the site saying when the functionality is going to come along? If this the extent of the feature/module development I will have to stay with 1.6 as otherwise this is a huge step backwards overall, despite the improvements in some features .
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cobra12512 Reply:
July 16th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
You don’t want to run a social site on a non dedicated server unless you will have less than 1000 people on it… Trust me… Learn the hard way.
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Gartindale Reply:
July 17th, 2009 at 2:04 am
My social site has less than a 1000 members - and it works fine as it is
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cobra12512 Reply:
July 17th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Yeah how many are active, 200-500 at the same time?
Danny Reply:
September 9th, 2009 at 7:13 am
AVChat.net seems to be working on a cool flash video chat for phpfox:
http://avchat.net/products/avchat3/phpfox
I guess there are third party solutions for the chat problem inv2!
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Are qe getting some type of Directory Listing for 2.0 ??
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Peter Armenti Reply:
July 17th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
we’re supposed to be, so I’ve been told
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i need to have thread pictures instead of user pic for some categories in forum (set in admin for which cat)….. usually this is used for movie posting so we could upload the poster of the movie… and user can see the poster beside the thread.
- also need this feature to make money similar to gift module but different
allowing users to post a sentence or a line and this will be posted to the main header of the site in homepage and anyone can see it register or non register….
its like someone wants to say ” i love u nikki..”
user will be for how long they wanna keep the message. its like adsense
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PLEASE MAKE THE PROFILE PICTURE AS FACEBOOK…. SO THAT ALL THE PICTURES STAYS IN PROFILE PICTURE ALBUM..
BUGS… WHEN CORPING AN IMAGE… THE NEW IMAGE DOES SHOW AS PROFILE PICTURE.. IT SHOW THE OLD PICTURE
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Everything looks great! I am thinking hard, what mod webmasters of PHPFox 2.0 might look for as everything seems to be already built in!
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Hi,
could an import facility be provided for PHPBB2 to the new PHPfox forum, so that I can import all old conversations? This would be critical for our site as we have lots of info and articles in our forum which we wouldnt want to lose.
Is this possible?
Sam
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I also have a blog mod in our phpbb2 forum which it would be just amazing if it could import user blogs from that in to the new phpfox blogs.
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I think updates being seperate from wall comments is making this confusing. On Facebook they are one and the same.. does anyone agree? Can they be combined? Ray, can you comment on this please? The way it is now is very confusing.
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Ох..я не пойму одно зачем создают уже игры подобные другим,а именно популярным!?что это дает..разве когда сколько комуто надоест оформление визуальное МОНОПОЛИИ вот и перекинутся для Инвестополия..
Може понятно я не прав,только всеже…
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omon008 Reply:
July 20th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Дело не в создании чегото на подобие уже существующего а в дизайне. на пример ты не можеш придумать колесо ты можеш изменить дизайн или штруктуру создания. дай людям то что они уже знают но в другом дизайне и другими компанентами.
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Everyone please view and vote for the following feature request. phpFoX v2 is very confusing as it is made right now. Facebook was so successful because the flow of commenting and updates makes sense and is easy to understand and follow. v2 right now is trying to do 2 things at once (comments & updates) instead of combining them together as they should. Peoples profiles make no sense and it’s impossible to follow and kind of conversation or flow. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, this needs to be changed to be more like facebook or I will have difficulty using phpFoX. View and vote here. Screen shot included for those that don’t use facebook.
VOTE HERE:
http://forums.phpfox.com/project.php?issueid=2420
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One of the top problems of PHPfox is that it can’t handle thousands of users, the top feature that they need to build is a stability feature, make phpfox 2 to use extremly lower resources to avoid having problems with thousands of users.
The latest version of phpfox is not very stable and it can’t handle thousand of users.
Also it could be great if you can check a lot of photos and delete them at once, this way you don’t have to delete every photo, wait for the message and press the delete photo option.
Another feature could be to block some users from uploading an avatar photo, some users upload nasty images and that images appear all over the site.
Could also be possible that from default all users home page is not open to all public, the same way facebook works?
It is not diffcult to buid a great software, copy the best of facebook, make the script very small and without any extra code that will slow everything, and you have the best open script like facebook.
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I forgot to say that right now if you have thousand of users and delete a user account it takes minutes.
Stop building more and more features that nobody use, build your software to use very few resources, copy facebook if you can’t think of what to do.
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If you have thousands of users and alot of traffic to any site, you should have a dedicated server, or better. Also every type of site should made to be stable and handle many users.
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“We had initially planned on releasing a Chat module and wait with the Instant Messenger till v2.1, however we felt it was crucial to focus our efforts on the IM now as it can in the long run be transformed into a general chat gateway as well.
To chat with another user they have to be on your friends list and logged into the site”
How do you become friends if you cannot chat with them first?
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This is amazing, love all the new features. You guys have done an amazing job,
one thing I dont like is the forum, I love to see the type of forum that was build by santocki i think, it was more user friendly, very easy to use. for example, if theres a topic thats in the middle of the forum, and when a new post was made on that topic, that particular topic would go up al the way, so its easy to see which topic has had the most recent post on it.
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Peter Armenti Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
True
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I notice that there still isn’t a zipcode search feature. The best I can do is search for people in my country. Not even in my state. At least through the browse feature I can’t. Am I missing something here? Seems relatively easy to put in a search radius based on zip code. I couldn’t do it, but someone smart could.
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Why is the profile pic and info, on the lower right hand side. That’ not a good spot to put that. I mean, I know you wanna be different from the others but that’s not easy enough, for the people who will be signing up on our sites. Also why the advertising box on the top right ? You already got one on the bottom right. I think you should delete that and put the profile pic and info there instead, it’s just more pleasing to the eyes. Also I think the comment box should not be visible, until you click on a comment link or drop down box. Then it minimizes when you submit comment, so it reduces clutter on the page. Remember simplicity and ease of use, is number one with people. One last thing, I think you did a good job with making the blocks movable but I think you should make all of them movable. Here’s a perfect example of what I mean, if you don’t mind> http://www.roc4life.com/profile/dariusrashaud
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Yes I agree.
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everything is good. latest secur n so.on but i thing u sud make the css much easy so that way people can change there won templ or theme.. and ofcurs u sud make layhout that from admin panel u can change round moving place.. i have seen prev one but that wasn’t good enough anyhow is it wona work out with new vers???????sorry my eng is not goood enouf hope u understad…
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One more Question, I’m not sure if it was already answered. But if we already have a full paid license etc, do we have to pay again for the upgrade? And, can we do the switch now, so we can start designing and playing around with it? So the change won’t be so drastic, when the final beta release comes out, If you know what I mean…
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I’m not sure if this was requested or asked or anything…. But will we get a progress bar to let users know the % of the completion of there profile, with a list of items or things to do to get to 100% live inviting friends ans stuff like that ??
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The release candidate will be released in September, and the stable version in November.
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will the musicians have the option to let there users download there music or not ???
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omon008 Reply:
August 8th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
it would be cool to have the ability to download music
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cobra12512 Reply:
August 8th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
is what most of my users ask… did someone add this to the request features??
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Maybe the user URL’s be like hi5 that will be wonderful…
like this: http://samplemember.phpfox.com
that option is user’s choice. if the user want sub domain URL-> Yes. and that will created. if No, that will be http://www.phpfox.com/samplemember
sorry ma english
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Question : how do I addt he branding.php to this to take out the phpfox stuff?
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Fern :: phpFox Reply:
August 13th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Right now, I think branding for v2 is not developed yet.
It will be included on a future release candidate.
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cobra12512 Reply:
August 14th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Well i hope is for RC1…
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It whould be nice if we had the attachments as a ajax pop up links of there attachments on the global compose box, so people can easyly share there atachements with there friends/people when it comes to posting Blogs or any type of post, comment or forums….
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Will you be including video within the RSS feed area? I think this is a big addition that needs to be considered. The MRSS feed spec would be most ideal for this setup.
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cobra12512 Reply:
August 14th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Great idea man!!!
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I wish to use phpFox2 Official version and i’m still waiting release it. But there is one problem i got, there is a lot of modules for v1.6.x version, and i can use this version’s modules to phpFox2 version? or Fox2 version release new modules for only new version?
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The features look very promising for phpFox2! I’m excited to see them being incorporated into the script. One thing that could be added to help make a social networking site unique is to have a del.icio.us-like feature added into the menu bar for the site users.
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Thanks for the updates guys.. is what keeps me going and makes my days go faster till RC1 can’t wait to update my site to it, I bought another lisence any chance you guys will extend the promo again or have it fpr use again, there is 1-3 more license i want to get… a have a couple diferent sites i want to launch…
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The top new feature I would like to see in 2.0 is
more stable phpfox scripts, because 1.6 they all work too slow.
About other features I would like:
To be able to delete a lot of pictures at the same time by checking them, also it could be great to block profile pictures from users that keep placing nude photos inside their profile pictures.
Also it could be nice that if a user profile page is blocked to users their photos would not appear on the gallery page.
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cobra12512 Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Good Idea!!!, Yeah like if the user upload nude pictures, suspend him from the picture upload module, with an auto date, like suspend him for a week or month or for good… Same with all other modules music, blogs, polls, forums, videos, you name it suspend him or her for not following the rules, by module one by one…
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Account Settings
It will be very nice to have besides LOCATION COUNTRY under Account Settings a COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. People come from all parts of the world so I guess that would be a simple but significant implementation.
Will site administrator have a sipple option to add that field?
Thanks!!!
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Does phpfox2 support couple profiles?
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No updates today ???
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Raymond Benc Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:55 am
We are working on the upgrade script and will be doing so until the RC release so there won’t be as many updates unless we can complete testing of the upgrade script earlier and try to squeeze in some last minute features.
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I get Baned for talking about School System missing, nice thanks you anna…
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I’m sorry to all the Team if i said something out of line, i don’t think i did, but if i did i’m sorry… Keep up the good work.. And thanks anna for chaging the dates to 9/3 better than 9/27… Thanks and once again i’m sorry.. And thank you for all this hard work… Any twitter updates today ?
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How does the ban work and also i cant change or edit the forums i have an error on the page. Do i need to chmod the fles or something?
help!
Steve
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I have a question since i have not seen any updates on this?? Are we getting the language, translate module for RC1 ?
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Raymond Benc Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 2:45 am
No, since the default language package cannot be completed until the product is completed we cannot release support to translate the product. RC1 marks the product “closed” and thereafter is when we can start creating the default language package, which basically is moving all hard coded phrases within PHP/HTML files into the database. Once the default package is completed we can open the script for public translation.
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cobra12512 Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 11:41 am
Any estimated release date on this, i was under the impression that it was going to be part of the RC1, which made me put everything on hold. My fault i guess, but will this be ready by RC2 ??
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cobra12512 Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Ray? are we getting the lisence remover ???
Any chances if everything goes well that we can get RC1 sooner ??? lol, Just wishing, can’t wait, i seem to be the only one so exited where is everyone else? I go into the phpfox blogs like 5 times a day.. lol …
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