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Improvements

ID

Improvement

1

Support option to show/hide site menus with user groups.

2

Show "Share" app in Manage Apps page (Admincp) to allow admin can control settings/user group settings easier.

3

Bring back feature to allow admin can add blocks to Admincp Dashboard page.

4

Support phpFox runs on php version 7.2

5

Admincp - Move Toggle Site to Maintenance menu section.

6

Auto expand comment box.

7

Clean html in hashtags.

8

Hide the Navigation when enabling the setting "Hide Main Menu".

9

Update Counters: remove 2 unused options from v3: "Update Privacy for v3 Upgrade" and "Update Owner ID# for Comments"

10

IP Information - show more information: region, city, zip code, lat, long, timezone

11

Show users avatar in Manage BLocked Users page.

12

Trend blocks: hide blocks if there aren't any tags to show.

13

Admincp - Manage Blocks: support friendly name for Pages and Blocks

14

Update layout and structure of Admincp

15

Feature members: Add a block setting control how many shown items.

Bugs Fixed

ID

Bug

1

Duplicate "Meta Keyword" field in Create Static Page page.

2

Unable to edit Relationship Statuses in Manage Relationship Statuses page (Admincp).

3

Photo isn't found in feed when users update profile picture.

4

Cannot load results of Quizzes/Polls if turn off Ajax Mode.

5

Messages in feed gets last character removed if it's a colon.

6

Duplicate info of "Member Since" in Profile Info page.

7

Cannot login as other users.

8

Setting "User Default Privacy Setting on Registration" isn't working completely.

9

Invalid translation of the phrase "With"

10

Missing custom fields in registration popup when enabling the setting "Multi step registration".

11

Cannot add a ban filter with wildcard email address.

12

The block "Recently Active" in Browse Members page isn't working properly.

13

Site statistics issue - Only Members: It does not count users have just logged in.

14

No translation of the phrase "Reset".

15

Admin can't edit feeds in User Profile page.

16

Users state info show wrong when admin edit their info from Admincp.

17

Replicated custom fields block in other users profiles.

18

Show avatar of the current admin when edit users in Admicp.

19

Profile photo doesn't show in Bootstrap theme.

20

Guests can access some pages although the site is on offline mode.

21

Cannot edit SEO settings of some apps.

22

Cannot disable Privacy page in Footer.

23

CDN Service app is missing in 4.6.0 package.

24

Wrong monthly price displayed in Membership Upgrades.

25

Update profile picture - Do not show photo on cropping popup.

Site Settings

New Settings

ID

Setting var name

Setting Name

Description

1

core.check_certificate_smtp_host_name

Check certificate SMTP host name

Check ssl certificate of your SMTP host name. If it does not use valid certificate, email can't be sent

User Group Settings

New Settings

ID

Setting var name

Setting Name

Description

1

share.can_share_items

Can share items

Allow admin to control which user groups can share site items to the feed.

Deprecated Settings

ID

Setting var name

Setting Name

Reason

Remove In

1

comment.can_comment_on_own_profile

Can comment on own profile?

The setting isn't useful anymore.

4.7.0

Hooks/Plugins

We have some new hooks/plugins to support developers can make change on the core features:

ID

Name

App

Description

1

feed.component_block_edit_user_status_end

feed

Plugin called at the end of the Edit User Status block.

2

core.template_notification_list_start

core

Template plugin called at the begin of notification block.

3

core.template_notification_sm_list_start

core

Template plugin called at the begin of notification block (tablet screen).

4

core.template_notification_xs_list_start

core

Template plugin called at the begin of notification block (phone screen).

Template Utilities

In this version, we have supported a new template utility to render checkboxes for selecting genders checkbox_gender

Code Block
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themeRDark
borderStylesolid
linenumberstrue
collapsefalse

{checkbox_gender use_custom=true}

To get detail information or the full list of supported utilities, please look over this document.

Deprecated Settings

In this version, we have checked to deprecate all core un-used settings. Below is the detail list. All of them will be removed completely in phpFox 4.7.0.

Setting Var Name

Added Version

Type

ad.ad_cache_limit

2.0.0beta3

integer

ad.ad_ajax_refresh

2.0.0beta3

boolean

ad.ad_ajax_refresh_time

2.0.0beta3

integer

attachment.attachment_upload_bars

2.0.0alpha1

integer

comment.comment_time_stamp

2.0.0alpha1

string

comment.spam_check_comments

2.0.0rc1

boolean

comment.total_amount_of_comments_to_load

3.0.0Beta1

integer

comment.allow_rss_feed_on_comments

2.0.0beta5

boolean

comment.allow_comments_on_profiles

2.0.0rc4

boolean

comment.total_child_comments

2.0.0rc1

integer

core.ftp_host

2.0.0alpha1

string

core.ftp_username

2.0.0alpha1

string

core.ftp_enabled

2.0.0alpha1

boolean

core.ftp_dir_path

2.0.0rc1

string

core.default_theme_name

2.0.0alpha1

string

core.default_style_name

2.0.0alpha1

string

core.module_forum

2.0.0alpha1

string

core.module_core

2.0.0alpha1

string

core.categories_to_show_at_first

2.0.0rc12

interger

core.controllers_to_load_delayed

3.6.0rc1

array

core.auth_user_via_session

3.6.0rc1

boolean

core.csrf_protection_level

2.0.0alpha1

drop

core.build_file_dir

2.0.0alpha1

boolean

core.build_format

2.0.0alpha1

string

core.log_site_activity

2.0.0alpha1

boolean

core.cache_js_css

2.0.0alpha1

boolean

core.use_gzip

2.0.0alpha1

boolean

core.site_wide_ajax_browsing

2.1.0Beta1

boolean

core.disable_hash_bang_support

3.0.0beta3

boolean

core.super_cache_system

3.6.0rc1

boolean

core.push_jscss_to_cdn

3.6.0rc1

boolean

core.jquery_google_cdn_version

2.1.0Beta1

string

core.jquery_ui_google_cdn_version

2.1.0Beta1

string

core.phpfox_version

2.0.0rc1

string

core.phpfox_total_users_online_mark

2.0.7

interger

core.phpfox_total_users_online_history

2.0.7

string

core.phpfox_max_users_online

2.0.7

string

core.akismet_url

2.0.0rc1

string

core.akismet_password

2.0.0rc1

string

core.defer_loading_user_images

3.6.0rc1

boolean

core.rackspace_url

3.2.0beta1

string

core.load_jquery_from_google_cdn

2.1.0Beta1

boolean

core.theme_session_prefix

2.0.0rc3

string

core.phpfox_is_hosted

2.0.7

boolean

core.meta_description_limit

2.0.0alpha1

interger

core.meta_keyword_limit

2.0.0alpha1

interger

core.description_time_stamp

2.0.0alpha1

string

core.use_dnscheck

2.0.0alpha1

boolean

core.allow_cdn

2.0.5

boolean

core.activity_feed_line_breaks

3.5.0

interger

core.image_text_hex

2.0.0rc1

string

core.enabled_edit_area

2.0.7

boolean

core.display_required

2.0.0alpha1

boolean

core.required_symbol

2.0.0alpha1

string

core.is_personal_site

2.0.0alpha1

boolean

core.branding

2.0.0alpha1

boolean

core.allowed_html

2.0.0alpha1

boolean

core.watermark_image

2.0.0rc1

string

core.profile_time_stamps

2.0.0alpha1

string

core.watermark_option

2.0.0rc1

drop

core.watermark_opacity

2.0.0rc1

interger

core.watermark_image_position

2.0.0rc1

drop

core.image_text

2.0.0rc1

string

core.can_move_on_a_y_and_x_axis

2.0.0rc4

boolean

core.store_only_users_in_session

3.6.0rc1

boolean

core.force_404_check

3.6.0rc1

boolean

feed.total_likes_to_display

3.0.0Beta1

integer

feed.twitter_share_via

3.0.0rc1

string

feed.cache_each_feed_entry

3.6.0rc1

boolean

feed.height_for_resized_videos

2.1.0beta2

integer

feed.width_for_resized_videos

2.1.0beta2

integer

feed.allow_comments_on_feeds

2.0.0alpha3

boolean

feed.user_feed_display_limit

2.0.0beta3

array

feed.allow_choose_sort_on_feeds

4.4.0

boolean

friend.load_friends_online_ajax

3.6.0rc1

boolean

friend.cache_is_friend

3.6.0rc1

boolean

friend.cache_friend_list

3.6.0rc1

boolean

friend.hide_denied_requests_from_pending_list

2.0.7

boolean

language.auto_detect_language_on_ip

3.1.0beta1

boolean

language.no_string_restriction

3.7.0beta2

boolean

like.show_user_photos

3.3.0beta2

boolean

mail.update_message_notification_preview

3.1.0beta1

boolean

mail.enable_mail_box_warning

2.0.0beta5

boolean

mail.cron_delete_messages_delay

2.0.0beta5

integer

mail.threaded_mail_conversation

3.2.0beta1

boolean

mail.spam_check_messages

2.0.0rc1

string

tag.trending_topics_timestamp

3.0.1

string

track.cache_recently_viewed_by_timeout

3.6.0rc1

integer

track.cache_allow_recurrent_visit

3.6.0rc1

integer

user.user_pic_sizes

2.0.0alpha1

array

user.how_many_featured_members

2.0.0beta5

integer

user.min_count_for_top_rating

2.0.0

integer

user.cache_featured_users

3.6.0rc1

boolean

user.cache_user_inner_joins

3.6.0rc1

boolean

user.user_browse_display_results_default

2.0.0alpha3

drop

user.usernames_to_suggest

2.0.0beta3

array

user.how_many_usernames_to_suggest

2.0.0beta3

integer

user.registration_steps

2.0.0alpha2

array

user.suggest_usernames_on_registration

2.0.0rc10

boolean