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<h1 align="center"><font color="#008000"><a href="http://www.websitemembermanager.com/"><img
src="images/wmm-logo-small.gif"
alt="WMM - Your automated members area for your own website" width="128" height="59" border="0" /></a>TIPS on configuration</font></h1>
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<li><strong>Adding the login box
to your homepage</strong> is easy. To create a link like this:
<strong>
<?php
$location = "members/";
include("include-login-form.php");
?>
</strong> (which displays the
login box within your page). All you need to do is add the PHP code below to your
homepage:<br />
<textarea rows="4" name="textarea" cols="130" style="font-size:9pt"><?php
$location = "members-section/members/";//use this setting to include the link on your homepage or any other page on your root
include("members-section/include-login-form.php");
?></textarea>
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<li><strong><font color="#0000FF">*</font></strong> <font color="#000000"><strong>When testing a new member account</strong><br />
There is no need to log off from your admin area, you can now login automatically just <a href="view.php"></a>search for a member then
"<strong>LOGIN as this member</strong>"link.</font>
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<li><font color="#000000"><strong>Creating private content</strong><br />
(allows you to provide individual files for each member if required)<br />
</font><br />
<font color="#000000">To activate this all you need to do is:
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<li><strong>Your system will automatically create private
folders - to change this alter the </strong> <em>CREATE_PRIVATE_FOLDERS</em> constant in the
file: /members/constants.php <br />
New folders are automatically created in
this location: <br />
<strong>/members/content/Private_folders_ONLY/[username]/ </strong><br />
So if their username was "hide@address.com" it would be: <br />
<strong>/members/content/Private_folders_ONLY/them-at-theirdomain.com/</strong><br />
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<strong><font color="#0000FF">*</font></strong> new folders are now created by replacing the "@" with "-at-" <br />
(if old folders exist with the "@" symbol then it will still work) <br />
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<li>Set the folder: <br />
<strong>/members/content/Private_folders_ONLY/</strong><br />
to <em>read and write</em> - chmod to 777 (there are <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ftp+%22how+to%22+chmod&">several help pages devoted to this task here</a>) <br />
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</li>
<li>Then, each time a new member joins the files, if any
exist, will be copied from: <br />
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<strong>/members/content/DEFAULT_specific_member_pages/</strong><br />
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to the new folder automatically. </li>
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<p><font color="#000000"><strong>Optional config:</strong><br />
change the constant in the file: /php-lib/constants.php <br />
YOUR_PERSONAL_FILES by default is set to "Your personal files" </font></p>
<p><em><font color="#000000">ONLY when there are files (.html or .php)
within a members folder will the personal menu appear.</font></em><br />
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<li><strong>Display a Notice to New members </strong>- displayed to new members on first login only.<br />
New members will be shown the file: <br />
/members/content/NEW-member-welcome.html<br />
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This is shown just once, on first login if the constant <em> SHOW_NEW_MEMBER_WELCOME</em>
is set to true in the file: /members/constants.php
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<li><strong>Integrating phpBB forum<br>
</strong> Note: You must make a separate install of <a
href="http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php">phpBB</a> to use the following</font></li>
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<td width="208"><p align="center"><font color="#008000"><a href="http://www.websitemembermanager.com/"><img
src="images/wmm-logo-small.gif"
alt="WMM - Your automated members area for your own website" width="128" height="59" border="0" /></a></font></td>
<td width="214"><p align="center"><strong><font color="#000000"> give access to </font>>></strong><br></td>
<td width="118"><p align="center"><font color="#006699"><strong>phpBB</strong></font></td>
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<p align="center"><strong><font color="#FF0000">Backup before implementing.
BACKUP now, wait, someone will still not bother! <br>
Backup, do not come whinging.....</font></strong></p>
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<p><font color="#000000">If you intend to use WMM as your
authentication system (allowing automatic access to phpBB by all existing and new
WMM members) then complete the following:</font>
<ul>
<li><font color="#000000">edit the file: <strong>/members/constants.php<br>
</strong>changing the constant FORUM_ENABLED to true<br />
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</font></li>
<li><font color="#000000">edit the phpBB register file:<br />
<em>/forum/styles/[style-name]/template/ucp_register.html</em><br />
<br />
Remove the HTML and replace with your own HTML such as: <br />
</font>
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<font color="#0000FF"><strong>Please login or register here:
<br />
[create a link to your WMM login page]</strong></font> <strong><br />
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<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><strong>Note:</strong> you may also need to amend
the constants: FORUM_LOCATION and FORUM_FOLDER_NAME within the <strong>/members/constants.php</strong>
file.<br>
The default settings are for the following folder
structure:<strong><br>
<img src="images/phpbb_structure.gif"
width="144" height="49"></strong></font><br>
<font color="#000000">Also, for this to work correctly both
WMM and phpBB need to be on the same domain/web space (but can use the same
<strong>or</strong> different databases). When setup you will be able to access your
phpBB forum as an administrator from the <a href="get_details.php">main menu</a> (system
watch section).<br>
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<strong>Creating a link to the forum</strong> - use the file:<br>
/members/content/Forum (phpBB access).html <br>
or just make a link to /members/phpbb/_phpbb_login.php<br>
it is secure to link directly to this file - only if your member is logged
in will they be logged into your forum.<br>
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<strong>Existing phpBB members!<br>
</strong>If existing phpBB members logs into phpBB from within WMM then it will create a new phpBB account, unless they have logged into phpBB via WMM previously.<br />
If you have phpBB members who wish to retain their existing forum account then ask them to login to the forum as normal via the phpBB login page. <br />
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</font><br />
<font color="#000000"> <strong>New phpBB members</strong> <br />
The new
username will be the same as the WMM username
(trimmed to maximum length of 250 characters) with the "@" symbol
replaced with " - " (space hyphen space), this is done to prevent spam bots
collecting email addresses. </font><br>
<br>
<font color="#000000"><strong>Restricting access to phpBB</strong><br>
Login as an
administrator to phpBB and Go to Administration Panel<br>
- then click on the permissions link on the left.<br>
For more details on this please refer to the</font> <a
href="http://www.phpbb.com/" target="_blank">phpBB site</a>.</p>
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<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><strong>Altering the Company name</strong><br>
This can be changed by altering the value assigned to CO_NAME within the <strong>config.inc.php</strong>
file. This is set when you first install the application.</font> </p>
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<li>
<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><strong>Changing the footers<br>
</strong>You can easily add your own html to both,<strong> see: /html-members/footer.html</strong>
and <strong>/html-admin/footer.html</strong></font> </p>
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<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><strong>Changing the headers<br>
</strong>Changing the headers can result in errors as these contain PHP.
However, you can still add your own html, but this requires a greater amount of
care. </font><br />
<font color="#000000"><strong>see: /html-members/header.html</strong> and <strong>/html-admin/header.html</strong></font><br />
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<li><a name="change_inputs" id="change_inputs"></a><strong>Changing the register.html page (removing inputs, companyname, etc.) </strong><br />
<br />
If you take a look at the <a href="http://demo.websitemembermanager.com/members-section/members/register">demo</a> it shows how easy it is to add/remove inputs.<br />
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EDIT: /html-members/register.html <br />
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change the second line from: <br />
<strong>var inputs_to_remove=["companyname", "address1", "address2", "country", "postcode", "tel", "mobile", "comments", "heardaboutusfrom"]</strong><br />
to:<br />
<strong>var inputs_to_remove=[ "country", "postcode", "tel", "mobile", "comments", "heardaboutusfrom"]</strong><br />
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and it will include the the companyname, address1 and address2. <br />
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<li><font color="#000000"><strong>New members - registration completed: Changing the final
message displayed</strong><br>
The message displayed to NEW members having just registered is either
MANUAL_ACTIVATION_MSG or AUTO_ACTIVATE_MSG depending on if you have auto activate set to
manual or not. You can change this in <strong>/members/constants..php</strong>
file.</font>
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<p> </p>
<p align="center"><strong>Help is available in the forums - but please <a href="http://members.dwalker.co.uk/forum/search.php">search</a> for your issue first, thanks. </strong></p>
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