Like I said, PHPFox (YouNetCo) is just about greed and milk out as much money as they can from what they have. There was/are other 3-4 softwares from that time, whith the same stupid "strategy" and guess what? One was abandoned (funny thing was, they've sold licesences until the last day) and the others, are in PHPFox situation, of dieing slow. Now with so many options/alternatives at a fraction of the price, well supported and more features, of course nobody buys PHPFox anymore and this leads to milk out as much money as is possible from existing customers until eventually they will "bail out" and this will be just another abandoned project.
JohnJr and t3ln3t, while I appreciate you both taking the time to offer these suggestions, the real point that I am trying to make here is that we should NOT even have to resort to such roundabout methods in order to receive email notifications when a new user signs up.
Look, if the phpFox software can automatically send an email address verification notification to a new user when they sign up, then it most certainly can send an email to the site admin when a new user signs up as well.
My gosh, scripts of various types -- such as javascript, perl, php, etc. -- have been able to perform this simple email notification function for literally decades now.
For the record, I am an old school, pre-Internet guy who used to run both a BBS, as well as an old school messageboard. Even my messageboard cgi -- which I still run for the heck of it -- can automatically send out automated email notifications.
So the larger question in my mind is WHY phpFox can't perform this same basic function which has been available for many years.
If you are a longtime phpFox admin, you will already know the answer to this question. Do I really need to spell it out for you?
PHPFOX / METAFOX has a lot of potential... I am not hating on them or their product. I am just disappointed in the product. I mean phpfox has been around for a LONG time and they have all these plugins - but none of them work in the app.
I just believe that for what I have paid for the ultimate license, live plugin, native apps, other plugins they should have a better product.
I simply believe that their main goal (maybe their only goal) is to sell as is and never add to it.
It's just sad that others are in the market with more advanced features for far less.
TikTok videos are COMMON PLACE in other platforms. Yet, they want you to pay for custom work... maybe you should just do the custom work because people are spending a lot of money to buy your license... then buy your plugins... so maybe to create a better product you guys would have a platform that could embed tiktok videos... I could list of a lot of other things that the product should just have but I talked about that in another post.
I would like to see PHPFOX optimize for engagement. Create something for creators... You charge a lot for your product... I just feel that would warrant the natrual progression of improvement. That's all.
This is somewhat unusual. Out of the box, the server's php software has a 2MB size limit. I've seen a 10MB default file size in phpfox product itself. I'm not sure where the 5Mb limit you're seeinig comes from?
Additionally, if you're a server guy and you know what you're doing, check your system's php.ini file. It may NOT be in /etc!!!
Drop a phpinfo page on your site and double check what php.ini your installation uses. Or alternatively, contact your hosting provider's support folks and ask them to increase the php max upload size and max post size. They should be able to do this for you fairly easily.
Hopefully this helps your specific case.
Thank you very much t3ln3t ! ... excellent information!
Have you some good news: found the setting to change this limit...im not sure why is there but here you go:
John Jr helped me to track the error text: "Unable to upload. You have reached the limit of 5 Mb. With this upload it will use more ..." in Globalization>Phrases...and he found that was related to the User App.
Went to Members>Usergroup Settings and found this in User App/module: "The total amount of space a user can use when uploading to the server (eg. photos, videos, songs etc...) in megabytes (mb). Set to "0" for unlimited space."
It is the #26 setting from top...more or less...Then checked all my usergroups quota...none of them was set to 5...except one: REGISTERED USER
Changed it...to another number and Voila !! the limit size when uploading a photo in pages...AS PAGE..not AS MEMBER...changed to the new one i wrote.
It would only remain to understand the relationship between registered usersand uploading a photo(or video) in pages as the page not as member.
Just a quick update being as I just received an email notification regarding John's above comment. I am still using PHP 7.4.32 without any problems. I have no intentions of upgrading to PHP 8 any time soon. As they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! Why look for trouble?
BTW, I have no intentions of upgrading to phpFox 5 either. It is just not worth the upgrade expense, or the trouble and the additional expense I would incur with updating my iOS and Android apps. Besides, my phpFox site is so dead with barely two dozen members now, I may just end up shutting it down in coming months anyway. Every month I delete more users who haven't logged on in six months or longer. Getting new users is hard. Retaining users and getting active participation is even harder. Too many folks are beholden to the major social networks.
For your issue, please feel free to open an incident ticket at: https://clients.phpfox.com/ along with your site login credentials; then our team will be in touch with you shortly.
Thank you John and t3ln3t! for your feedback on this topic. A couple of members this year have written me about this situation, but I think they may have forgotten their passwords.
aaannnndddd that's why I made sure I have recoverable backups before tinkering!
tried to do something before doing one iota of homework and broke my alpha playground.
So restores ... it's super simple. Blow away your top level site folder and then copy in the backup.
it's a tar archive, so whatever permissions were applied before should be intact when it's restored.
I got the "oops ... something went wrong" white page when I tried to apply the beta code, first pass.
Probably something I did, but we'll see? Anyways, had to restore finally. I left the DB untouched since the site
hadn't done a tinkle's darn thing. After putting the backup back up, I went through and did stuff on the site just to make sure.
here's exactly what I did to restore from the backup created above this time. Eventually I'll get around to doing it in the script too I guess ...
# mkdir metafox-restore
# cd metafox-restore
# gunzip -c ../metafox-2022-12-08.tar.gz | tar xf -
# cd /var/www/html/
# rm -rf *
# cd /root/metafox-restore
# cp -Rp * /var/www/html/
# php artisian cache:clear
It's icky and needs refinement. PLEASE!?! FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS CUTE & CUDDLY be super duper careful doing stuff on your server! This has the dreaded rm -rf * command and that's the root of all evil. The peril that lies ahead may be too much for you. In that case, get your hosting support folks to help, get the phpfox folks to help or just don't do it!
Eventually folks will do a fancy backup/restore thingie like there is for v4 and it will make what I did look silly.
but there ya' go! backups and restores for MetaFox!
P.S. nobody told me to do the php artisian cache:clear command, I'm just throwing that in all by myself.
Other laravel sites I've run in the past needed that after anything was done too, so I'm just adding it.
It doesn't seem to throw any errors anywhere though ...?
I have the v4.8.10 release zip file still on my server, after downloading it accidentally.
Not sure if sharing this will upset the phpfox folks, and that's something I do NOT want to do!
Would helping Sean out and letting him (only him) have the v4.8.10 distribution upset things?
I really like what they've done with MetaFox!
Laravel isn't my strongest suit however, so I have a heck of a learning curve to get my head around all the other stuff.
Really excited to see the final prodoct later this year!
Yep I was also surprised with how MetaFox turned out. The Laravel and react-based really did add levels to the entire product!
