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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 [...]

phpFox 2.0.5 Released

We are pleased to announce that phpFox 2.0.5 has been released. 2.0.5 is a maintenance release, however it also includes several new beta features we are testing that will be part of 2.1. This will be the final maintenance release that will include new features for communities to test publicly. Our next release with new [...]

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:

<body>

After that [...]

phpFox 2.0.5dev2 Released

We are pleased to announce that phpFox 2.0.5dev2 has been released. 2.0.5dev2 is a development release and is intended for 3rd party developers to test their products with the new changes we made. This version is not supported and is currently undergoing quality assurance. Clients are more then welcome to test this version, however we [...]

Affiliate Images Updated

We have recently updated all our affiliate images. If you are an affiliate and connect to these images via our affiliate website then it will automatically be updated on your site, however if you have saved a local copy on your server be sure to update your affiliate images here.

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 [...]

phpFox 2.0.5dev1 Released

We are pleased to announce that phpFox 2.0.5dev1 has been released. 2.0.5dev1 is a development release and is intended for 3rd party developers to test their products with the new changes we made. This version is not supported nor has any quality assurance been performed. Clients are more then welcome to test this version, however [...]

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 [...]

Import Ning users with Foxporter

With the recent announcement from Ning to phase out free services there has been a heap of requests for an import script from Ning communities. Ning provides a CSV file to community creators which holds most of their members information from their Name, Email, Birth date, Location etc… They unfortunately do not officially have anything [...]