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v2.1, v2.0.6 & Upcoming Website Updates

Hope everyone is having a pleasant summer!
I wanted to take a moment to update the community on upcoming releases and changes. v2.1 is well on its way and will be our next major version release. For those that missed it here is a roadmap for v2.1. The list provided in that blog is just a [...]

Roadmap for v2.1

Version 2.1 is currently under development and it will include new features as well as a Beta/RC stage unlike our recent maintenance releases. We will continue releasing new maintenance builds up until v2.1 is stable. We wanted to share with the community a roadmap of what is planned for v2.1.
The list of features will most [...]

v2.0.5 Template & CSS Changes

If you have modified or created your own theme/style, v2.0.5 comes with some new features that require certain changes to both template and style files. Part of our first development release we added what needed to be changed here. Below you will find other important changes that v2.0.5 requires.
Open the template file “template.html.php”.
Look for:

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After that [...]

Spam Prevention with phpFox

We have put together an article on how to prevent SPAM on your community here. The article goes over how spammers find communities, methods of how they spam as well as steps phpFox admins can take to prevent spam on their community.
With the release of v2.0.5dev1 earlier today this brings the final release for v2.0.5 [...]

2010 Image Caching and Beyond

If you are using the “.htaccess” file we provide and if your server has support for mod_headers the caching date stamp needs to be updated as the current date stamp is set to “Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:00 GMT”. This date has passed and images won’t be cached any longer. Need not worry as you [...]

WYSIWYG Text Editors Support for v2.0.5

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Our next maintenance release 2.0.5 will include extra added support for 3rd party WYSIWYG text editors. We will include a free open source plug-in to fully integrate TinyMCE with phpFox with these new improvements.
Screenshot of TinyMCE in action with phpFox:

The TinyMCE module we are developing already [...]

v2.0.4 (Build 2) Released - Security Patch

This is a security patch for v2.x.
This new build includes 2 patches:

GZIP Patch
getID3 Patch

If you are running v2.0.4 (Build 2) these patches are already included. If you are running v2.0.4 (Build 1) you can install each patch manually. If you are running anything lower then v2.0.4 (Build 1) we advice you upgrade to v2.0.4 (Build [...]

Ads Module Update for phpFox 2.0.5

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Our next maintenance release 2.0.5 will include an update on our Ad module that will be part of version 2.1. It will be part of the 2.0.5 package for testing purposes. We have released a few new features with past maintenance releases and this is due [...]

Wildcard Subdomains for phpFox v2

We have been testing for sometime now to use wildcard sub-domains with phpFox as another method of “Short URLs”. We currently support 2 methods, which are:
1) http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?do=/blog/example/ (default method)
2) http://www.yoursite.com/blog/example/ (short URL method)
The 3rd method we have been testing will transform the URL to:
http://blog.yoursite.com/example/
This will also give each of your members their own sub-domain. Note [...]

v1.6 End of Life for Support

With the final release of v2.0.0 on the 23rd of December 2009 as of the 24th of March 2010 v1.6.x has reached its End of Life within product support. We will continue to release functionality and security updates until June 23rd 2010 if any such cases come up reports can be submitted here where a [...]