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Regard as the major project since the beginning of 2018, yet now the wait is over. Today we are glad to announce the phpFox iOS Mobile App is here for you to experience.On daily basis, people nowadays almost live in smartphones. We work, watch, listen, communicate, do a lot of stuff there. Definitely, your phpFox Social Network needs a mobile app as a comprehensive source of online content and harnessing users’ desire for social connection anytime, anywhere. Building up with the mindset of easy-to-use yet completed and full-featured, the app has all the tools you can expect from a Social mobile app. In term of appearance, the app consists of a sleek interface which applies incredible user experience techniques. Expected to be an extra boost to amplify users’ awareness of your community, phpFox iOS app truly enhances social connectivity with real-time access. The app guarantees a higher conversion rate return and cost-efficient values to your Social Network. Let's take a quick tour now      Want to experience the mobile app? We have published our phpFox iOS Mobile app on the Apple Store and set up the phpFox site for demo purpose. You can go to AppStore on your iOS device and search for "phpFox", then download and install the app named phpFox. Or click on the button below.Demo Server URL: https://mobileapi.phpfox.com User: phpfoxtest1@phpfox.com Password: 123456New Update on phpFox Licenses Coming along with the official release of the iOS mobile app, we are glad to inform you about the new phpFox license type: phpFox V4 Ultimate license. The phpFox V4 Ultimate license has all features of the phpFox V4 Pro license and includes Premium Mobile version.With Premium Mobile version, we will build your mobile apps with your branding and distribute to Apple Store and Google Play under your Developer accounts. On top of all phpFox branding and copyright will be removed, you can:– Change App Splash Screen– Change Color Scheme of mobile appYou can refer to this article for more info about our Premium Mobile Build ProcessIf you are holding Lite, Basic and Pro licenses, you can start upgrading your phpFox licenses to phpFox V4 Ultimate licenses from now. Please follow our guide here.Or you want to purchase new phpFox licenses right now, please click on the button below.And one more thing, In addition to phpFox V4 Ultimate with Premium Mobile version, we are going to have a new phpFox license which will allow you to use the default phpFox Mobile apps for your phpFox community. These mobile apps are published under phpFox Developer accounts on Apple Store and Google Play. They will be upgraded regularly during development. However, the phpFox branding and copyright can’t be removed in this mobile app version. Instead, you will be able to configure to display your site Logo on Login Screen and inside phpFox mobile apps (after logging in). For detailed guidance to use this phpFox Mobile version, please refer to this article. And, we are happy to offer the default phpFox Mobile version to those who are using phpFox V4 Pro licenses from now to Dec 31st, 2018. Please open tickets in Client Area to request for this Mobile app version.  Having any questions or need support? Please feel free to contact us in the Client Area or drop us messages to hello@phpfox.comWe welcome any opinions and feedback on how you feel and how we can improve the app in the future. Carry your community and keep updated anywhere with phpFox iOS Mobile app!

In phpFox 4.7.1, we pushed an important update as a powerful supplement to phpFox Homepage (or Landing page). As now you can design and customize the whole creative home page with custom blocks. Let's take a look into how we can renovate phpFox Homepage on phpFox 4.7.1 now!It's not an exaggerating to say that the homepage is one of the most important pages on a site. It serves three significant key purposes, all with equal importance: – Attract and captivate visitors. – Educate visitors on your brand and objectives. – Encourage visitors to view other pages on your website. In other words, the homepage serves as the first impression for new visitors. And generally, it will be the page that lands the most traffic. With this in mind, we have put several efforts on tweaking and perfecting phpFox home page. We firmly believe that the ability to add blocks will guarantee your site a beautiful and persuasive homepage.  As the guidance to walk you through on how you can take advantage of this compelling upgrade, below we are suggesting some examples layout that you can apply blocks to phpFox Homepage.Note:We are working on the Material template as an example. Any other template may require different setups, but the block orders still display accordingly. These layouts aren't shown by default. We just suggest you ideas on how to set up your home page, but you can have your own setup based on your creativity.Just like any page in phpFox, the homepage also has a 3-columns layout. From left to right, it's marked as Block 1, Block 2, and Block 3. Additionally, there is a header block (Block 11) and a footer block (Block 8) for you to customize.Please note that the home page is Visitor Landing Page (core.index-visitor).  Sample Home pages with custom blocks. 2-columns Layout3-columns LayoutThey're so amazing, aren't they? Now it's your time to setup phpFox Homepage, share and inspire others to build beautiful homepages.Having any questions about this feature? Please don't hesitate to let us know by writing to hello@phpfox.com.   

Yes, it’s officially the holiday season! You can feel the festive spirit is all over the place. Let decorate your house and your tree to celebrate this wonderful time of the year. Don't forget to take a look at new phpFox apps and themes in November, and gear up your Social Network with the best products.   1. Redirect after Logout by wlookThis simple app helps Admins to choose a specific page to redirect their users after they have logged out. You can use the default page by keeping goodbye in the field. The app support SSL and non-SSL domain or page to redirect. Learn More...   2. Admin Create Users by wlookThe app is a powerful administrative tool which allows Admins to easily create users on the fly right from AdminCP.When adding a new user, Admins has 3 basic fields needed to add a user: Display Name, Email, Password. You can leave the password field blank to generate a temporary password or enter one for your user. Additionally, you can force to change the password on the first login or disable changing password.Learn More...  3. No Password Login by wlookAnother great choice when you want to demonstrate your community. No Password Login app allows users to login without a password. Basically, whenever users want to sign in, the system will send them a one-time link via email. With this URL, users can sign in without asking for a password.Learn More...  4. Graffiti by FoxerDrawings are often used when users have a special event, want to congratulate someone, make a compliment or simply talk with each other. Graffiti app adds the ability to create graphical messages posted into activity feed that can be drawn by hand using multiple instruments. The specialty is in another kind of presentation – Members can see not only text but a bright picture that attracts more attention.Learn More...  5. Business Map by Scheinwelt-MediaWith this app, your site works as a business directory. Businesses are showing up on a map and can be filtered by categories. Users can also search businesses by country, city, street, name, and words within the description.Learn More...  6. Photo Popup Viewer by FoxExpertPeople using faceFacebook love their photo popup viewer with many options, this is a similar solution for phpFox. The app provides users the ability to browse photos using popup photo viewer. Also, this app allows easy AJAX editing photo, tag people and other different options like rotating, featuring and sponsorship...Learn More...  7. Contact us Access, Stop spam to contact us form by wlookThe app stops spammers from spamming your mailbox via Contact Us form on your site. Simply just select a User group to Turn On/Off the access to the form for that group. to your contact us form.Learn More...  8. Site Review by Scheinwelt-MediaRatings are very important to let potential users decide if it is worth their time to signup for your social network. With this app users can rate your social network site. The latest ratings show up in a block with a link to all the ratings.Learn More...  9. Auction by FoxExpertThis module was created to give merchants the ability to sell products on auctions in easiest possible way. Auctions are a great way to attract and keep customers in your social network. You will be sure that customers are paying the right price for your products. You don't have to negotiate prices with customers anymore. Managing auctions is very intuitive, and fully integrated with your Phpfox.Learn More...  That's all for now.   If you want to learn more about the functions and features of these new products, you can contact directly to our third-party vendors for inquiries. Or you can let us know your thoughts on these products by writing to hello@phpfox.com or create tickets in Client Area. Also, in case you want to customize these apps to your own needs, you can ask our Experts to assist you on your tasks.Wanna purchase new licenses? As you may know, the very new version 4.7.1 was just officially released. We have been receiving much positive feedback about this release. You can purchase phpFox right now to enjoy these above perks just by clicking on the button below. That's it for a pleasant November.Remember to subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest news and deals on upcoming Christmas and New Year promotion from phpFox.

Today, we gladly inform you that phpFox 4.7.1 is here. As a proof for active development, phpFox constantly improves to meet any need and demand from clients. Based on client's feedback and suggestions, in this phpFox release, we mainly focus on improving current features and resolving issues, so upgrade your community now to take advantage of the latest refinements from the phpFox team!Improvements Alongside with bug fixes, phpFox 4.7.1 also applies many improvements on Core features in order to level up user experiences on the platform. You can find a quick list of the key improvements from the list below:- Support responsive layout in AdminCP- Ability to add custom Gender- Can show blocks on the Landing page- Able to tag friends when sharing photos and videos on feed Fixed Issues We carefully reviewed and resolved all the major bugs and issues from the last version. Some of the highlights fixed issues include:- Cronjob URL is missing a slash.- Check-in doesn't show up properly when editing a status- Several fixes in language phrases and layouts.- Site Statistic loads duplicated statsFor the full list of improvements and bug fixes, please visit the Release Notes of this version here. Changelog If you are developers and you have a concern about the changes in the Core script on this version. See the complete changed file list here. Installation & Upgrade We encourage you to back up your site and database before performing the upgrade. Make sure to check with 3rd-party experts about the compatibility of all the apps/templates you are using. Also, take advantages on useful guides below if you want to upgrade the site yourself.– Download – Upgrade Instructions – Installation Guide Important Notes - All default apps of phpFox are compatible with the Core 4.7.1- If your phpFox site is using 3rd-party apps or has customizations, our recommendations here can help you. We welcome any feedback to make phpFox better and better every day, so feel free to let us know your thoughts on this release by emailing us at hello@phpfox.com.Also if you found any issues with this version, please let us know by submitting tickets or reporting immediately to our GitHub Tracker. We also encourage you to join and stay connected with the Community Forum. New to phpFox? If you are new and looking for a solution to build up your own Social Network, then phpFox is the right platform for you. phpFox is the ultimate solution for your social network. Thriving to be the best platform for Social Network, phpFox has everything you can expect from a social network: Full-featured, fast, responsive, stable, easy to customize, easy to scale up, Mobile-ready, several extensions from 3rd-party developers… You can start building your own Social Network within minutes with our best Support service.Ask us how and get your own license via Live Chat at phpfox.com Purchase New License You can purchase phpFox right now to enjoy these above perks just by clicking on the button below. We also have an exclusive 14-day Free Trial for you to try the platform before making any decision, and you can visit our Demo site at any time.Let's build and enjoy your social network today! 

As teased in the phpFox 4.7.0 Sneak peek, improving performance is one of the primary targets for phpFox 4.7.0 development. In this blog, we will discuss in more detail about performance enhancement in phpfox 4.7 by briefly describing the way we conduct the performance test, the test result and some further discussions about scalability with phpFox.In recent years, phpFox is becoming the best platform for Niche Social Networks, and so there is an increasing amount of users all around the world. As you may know, performance has been one of the major care and we put a lot of effort for code restructuring for performance improvement in phpFox 4.4. In phpFox 4.7, we revised the platform performance again with the latest technologies and we realize that we can do it much better. Testing Environment  I. System EnvironmentTo simulate a common use case in which the whole system is deployed in one single dedicated server, we take a standard server with the following configurationsIntel® Core™ i7-4790 CPU, 4 cores / 8 threads 16G RAM 250G SSD Ubuntu 16.04 OSThe server is installed the following softwareNginx version 1.14 as the web server. PHP-FPM with PHP version 7.2. The pool process manager is set to "ondemand" instead of the default "dynamic" setting. Opcache and APCu are also enabled. The "request_terminate_timeout" is set to "15s". MySQL Community Server version 5.7.22. Redis server version 3.x as the cache layer. II. DatasetWe install phpFox 4.7 and use the in-house data generation script to simulate a phpFox social network site with the following dataAll phpFox's default apps are installed. 10,000 users with 200,000 membership relationships. Each app (such as photo, forum, blog, polls, events, quizzes, etc.) has approximate 30,000 items.The site statistics is attached as follows  III. Testing MethodWe use Locust as a load testing tool. The Locust software runs with 4 slave threads on an Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6 CPU @ 3.80GHz (4 cores/8 threads) to be sure the load is put to the site properly. The test is conducted with the HTTPS protocol so that the cost for resolving SSL is also taken into place. Each virtual user will conduct the following activitiesFirst, visit the site home page. Next, login with his email and password. We force the locust script to pick different users for each session. After login, the virtual user will continuously visit all landing pages of activity feeds, member list, and all default apps (such as photo, forum, blog, polls, events, quizzes, etc.).Each test runs continuously at least 10 minutes at the highest load. IV. Acceptable Passing Criteria A test can only consider being passed if it satisfies all the following criteria:All requests must respond less than 15 seconds. If one single request exceeds 15s, the test is failed. No single failed request during 10 minutes at the "peak" load. The software must handle at least 500 concurrent online logged-in users in one dedicated server with the above testing method.Testing Results  I. The number Tl;dr: phpFox 4.7.0 passed the performance test with 600 concurrent online users as in the following screenshot:Some detailed numbers are highlighted as follows:The system can handle more than 600 online users with the above configuration with no failed request. Average response times for all requests is ~ 7.x seconds. The system can handle ~ 105 Requests Per Second (RPS). II. Some Conclusions The result between File Cache and Redis Cache settings are nearly the same in this system. However, when running on a non-SSD system with more writing operators, the Redis Cache setting proves to be better.Comparing to the previous version (phpFox 4.6.1 - 27 RPS & 17s Average Response Time), phpFox 4.7.0 can handle more than 3x RPS and Average Response time is less than 1/2 on the same system configuration.If your phpFox social network contains mostly browsing activities as in the test, the real online users might be higher since this test simulates concurrent online users.The real concurrent number of users can also be higher this test since this test does not take the non-logged-in users into account. For non-logged-in requests, we can offload the application/database server by simply configuring your web server/proxy/load balancer to cache page content.The test only focuses on "browsing" activities with no new content posting activities. Results will be different depending on the real member activities on different social network sites with different installed apps. Further Discussions We also conducted a similar performance test on a cluster of multiple servers. In this system, we utilize the following configuration to achieve much higher concurrent online users by splitting loads among servers:We use HAProxy as the high-performance load balancer. Nginx and PHP-FPM are used in application servers that serve phpFox source code. We also use Nginx micro cache for off-loading non-logged-in visits. For Database cluster, we utilize the latest MySQL Group Replication under a high-performance proxy to distribute database read and write loads among many database servers. Please be noted that supporting for MySQL Group Replication is only available from phpFox version 4.7.0. We utilize a Redis cluster for Caching purpose.Maintaining a cluster of servers when users and the site traffic grows are tedious and complex work. So we always recommend our clients to move to a cloud-based environment such as Amazon Web Service when their site grows. Also, setting up an optimized environment for a growing social network with lots of user activities is not an easy task so we do provide all services for your growing site. Be sure to check our Services page to see what we are providing. Final Words As a result of the above tests on phpFox 4.7.0 performance, it's a certainty to come up with a solid statement that this new version surely opens up a brand new and enjoyable experience to you when it comes to how well your social network handle requests and respond accordingly.Share us your thought on how phpFox 4.7.0 performs on your Social Network by emailing us at hello@phpfox.com. 

Holiday Season comes upon us swiftly and dearly, when the first snowflakes touch the ground, we all know it's that time of the year again! Lift up your mood and get on the shopping spree with our phpFox Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals now!phpFox Black Cyber Sales 2018 We delightedly offer the biggest promotion of the year 30% OFF on new phpFox licenses and upgrades from November 21-27, 2018 (PST). Don't miss on this amazing deal to start your own Social Network with phpFox! Promo Code: BLACKCYBER2018Best 3rd-party Deals are also here. Up to 50% Off! Additionally, this year we cooperate with our Experts to bring you the best deals on phpFox Store.Check out these marvelous deals, grab them with impressive price, and empower your community with products from our Experts. YouNetCo YouNetCo is proud to provide the best solutions and services to help you build and manage your Social Network effectively and productively. YouNetCo is delighted to light up your shopping season with the biggest promotion of the year. As phpFox Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotion, YouNetCo campaign is held from Nov 21 to Nov 27, 2018 (PST), and early birds will get the best deals with below coupon codes:YNBLAFRI18_50 – Get 50% OFF and Only for first 10 claims YNBLAFRI18_40 – Get 40% OFF and Only for first 15 claims YNBLAFRI18_30 – Get 30% OFFThe discount is applied to all products and packages on phpFox Store. So grab these great deals now while they last. Cespiritual As a phpFox expert since 2008, Cespiritual develops wide-range of phpFox products and provides customization service for his apps.In this shopping season, Cespiritual offers 50% OFF on all apps and packs (which are already discounted) with code blackfriday. The promotion is going from now until Nov 26th, 2018 (PST) Scheinwelt-Media Scheinwelt-Media offers a discount on all products with a fantastic 50% OFF.Just use the code blk2018 on any Scheinwelt-Media apps and themes at checkout.Start to improve your social network today and support Scheinwelt-Media for future updates and releases! Simplify Social Network Mainly focusing on developing utility apps and improving UI/UX, Simplify Social Network also partners up with several parties to give phpFox users the best experience in term of usage and administration with their apps.Come to this event, Simplify Social Network is glad to offer a special 51% OFF for any purchase on apps using code SSNC51. Foxer We will offer following discounts during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale  from November 21st to November 27th1. 30% off for our top-rated apps: Verified Members, Flags, Geo filter, InstaFox, Desktop NotificationsOrdering 2+ apps? Notify us and get a stunning 50% discount for any app or theme of your choice.2. 30% off for phpFox Complete package (save $300) - Coupon: PHPFOXER_BF_18 FoxExpert You can get 20% discount for any App/Theme or Package for best Phpfox apps from 22-29 November. Coupon code - blackfridayfoxexpert CometChat CometChat is a Chat SDK & API to enable user-to-user conversations on a platform. Other than that, CometChat can easily collaborate with 92+ platforms including phpFox. Our Black Friday Campaign Offers: 50% off for this first two months on all plans. Order plan with Code: TGIBF at our website. What are you waiting for? Get on the shopping train and don't miss out on these extraordinary offers.Have a blessing Thanksgiving and Happy shopping on phpFox Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping season with phpFox! 

We all know you are busy with all the works and plans as only two months away to say Goodbye to 2018.However, November still comes upon us with a festive spirit. Are you ready for the Holiday season?Let's stock up and be prepared for the coming pleasure time, but don't forget to take a look at what's new in phpFox Store during last month. 1. Content Visitors by cespiritual This simple app displays a block to show the last visitors of 8 popular modules of your Social Network: Blog, Music, Listing, Photo, Video, Event, Quiz, Poll. It will also show the time of each visit. Learn More...   2. Donate/Fundraising App Visitors by FoxExpertGot a business idea? Great! Now, thinking about its funding. With a huge number of user-friendly features and customizations, this app is everything your users could want from Crowdfunding and Donations on your social network. Also, this plugin very suitably if you just want to add a donation for your website, describe your needed and put it as Site campaign. Learn More...   3. Easy Slider Block by FoxerThe app offers an easy-to-use slider that can be set up from AdminCP using drag-n-drop. Block displays on Member's Home Page by default. Learn More...   4. Rewrite Rules by FoxExpertURL of your internal pages is very important to users interface and more important for search engines, so you need carefully manage each URL, which explains the best section where the user in. FoxExpert offers this app for these requirements, so you may use it along with FoxExpert's Advanced apps or Core apps. Spent 2 minutes and have better URLs for all your modules. Learn More...   5. Wasabi CDN by Scheinwelt-MediaWith this app, your site is able to store and retrieve content through wasabi CDN. Wasabi uses Amazon S3 technology but is much cheaper and faster than Amazon. Give your user only the best experience using your Social network by providing fast page display and huge storage plans. You can even monetize that storage. Learn More...   6. Subscriptions Comparement by FoxerSubscriptions Comparement is accessible for any phpFox license type and allows you to earn money from your users by offering them subscription packages compared with your specific features. With Subscriptions Comparement you will get a better option of presenting your packages in an advanced way. Learn More...   7. Message by phpFoxSending and receiving messages among users are MUST-HAVE activities in any Social Network. And surely Message app will quench the thirst of phpFox users for a modern and full-featured Messaging app. By analyzing user experience and applying to app layout design, users now can send, receive, view, compose and reply messages in the most convenient way with Message app. Additionally, many user-oriented features such as Custom List and Conversation Management definitely will level up the user experience and speed up messaging tasks for users. Learn More...   8. Activity Point by phpFoxActivity Point is one of the gamification tools on your social network to encourage members to have more interaction in the community. With this app, you reward members by giving "virtual points" for each of their activities. Activity Point app also enables developers to take advantage on pointing system and use it to develop many features which related to Activity Point. Learn More...   9. Maxfoxer Template by suresh choudhary  MaxFoxer comes packed with all module design and the best features for you to customize it the way to need. The theme is high-quality with a unique style and clean code. Using modern designs and subtle animation effects, animation banner. Additionally, the template opts to a fully responsive design with the color theme, layouts, images, buttons, and menus were completely re-designed. The template is designed for people to share their music, profile, pages, groups, menus, members page, and video. Learn More...   10. Coyonet Template by Scheinwelt-MediaCoyonet template is for everyone who wants a modern and simple theme with a side menu that looks just different than all the others. Try something new and show your users that the Social Network is just starting a new trend. Learn More...   11. ThemeX Template by Codemake SoftwareThemeX gives you the best sense of everything you want to accomplish. It is a banging phpFox template for social network sites. ThemeX uses all the latest web trends and technologies, like HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap for a stable and responsive experience. Learn More...   That's all for now.   If you want to learn more about the functions and features of these new products, you can contact directly to our third-party vendors for inquiries. Or you can let us know your thoughts on these products by writing to hello@phpfox.com Also, in case you want to customize these apps to your own needs, you can ask our Experts to assist you on your tasks.  That's it for a busy October, and don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest news and deals on upcoming Thanksgiving & Black Friday.  

Since the release of phpFox 4.7.0 last week, we are delighted by all the love and support through loads of feedback and suggestions from you. As committed to completed satisfaction from clients, we truly appreciate and welcome all your constructive opinions and inputs, as these greatly inspire and help us in the process of perfecting the platform. On top of many positive feedbacks, we also received some reports about issues while upgrading to 4.7.0 and this may make you have concerns. To make sure the upgrade process goes smoothly on your side, we will now cover some frequent problems in common scenarios so you can prepare in advance and have a successful upgrade.  1. Should I upgrade when my site has only Core apps? → All Core default apps are fully compatible with phpFox 4.7.0 now, indeed all Core apps are already upgraded to work well on this new versions. Therefore, you can just go ahead and upgrade immediately. However, it is important to note that some apps such as Pages, Group, Activity Point, Messages, etc. are only compatible with phpFox 4.7.0. Please don't forget to upgrade all phpFox apps to their latest versions along with phpFox Core upgrade to prevent any compatible issues.  2. Should I upgrade when my site has only Core apps and some were customized? → When it comes to customization, the situation turns to a little bit complicated. The customized apps may need to be merged with the newest source code manually to avoid any missing or bug. If your site was launched, then you shouldn't apply the codes directly to your production site as it might cause unexpected malfunctions and conflicts which potentially crash your site. We recommend you to build up a development environment for this upgrade then perform the upgrade on this so you can test and fix bugs first. Once the development environment works smoothly without any issue, it's time to deploy source code to the live site.  3. Should I upgrade when my site has 3rd-party apps? → First of all, please make sure that all 3rd-party apps you wish to use on your site have to be compatible with phpFox 4.7.0. The risk of applying and using an incompatible app may cause your site down. So even you really want to use the apps, we recommend you to wait until all apps are checked and fully compatible. In case you are in rush, please contact 3rd party providers/experts to schedule the upgrading plan for the apps.  4. Should I upgrade when my site has customized 3rd-party apps? → This situation is the same to above, we recommend you to check for app compatible first regardless it's customized or not. Again, in case you are in rush, you can always contact 3rd party providers/experts to schedule the upgrading plan for the apps. Third-party experts can have good advices for you to upgrade customized apps as well as merge old custom work then. Moreover, it is always the best practice that you should have full backup your site before proceeding upgrade. When starting the phpFox upgrade, it is highly recommended to temporarily disable all 3rd-party apps to avoid compatibility issues. After upgrading your phpFox Core and default apps successfully, you can move to upgrade and enable 3rd-party apps. Upgrading your Production site should be taken place during low traffic time. Ideally, it's around midnight and 5 AM, but it's not right to all industries and you have to adjust accordingly. Hopefully, these walkthroughs on scenarios above will clear up of your concerns and help you in the process upgrading your site to phpFox 4.7.0. Feel free to let us know if you have any inquiry about the upgrading process and also about the platform so we can improve phpFox better through future releases.  Let contribute your thoughts and ideas by emailing us at hello@phpfox.com.

Today the long wait is finally over. Let's upgrade to phpFox 4.7.0 today!From the beginning, we always dream to provide the best platform for everyone to build Niche Social Network sites. And with this version, phpFox surely solidifies this statement by bringing you the most impact and finest release than ever.This version ultimately not only redefines the current structure of the Core system to improve functionalities and performance but also introduces several new features. Let's take a look at what's new on phpFox 4.7.0. What to expect in phpFox 4.7.0? In this update, we mainly set our focus on enhancing user experience with phpFox. Therefore, we spent our effort to modify and optimize several Core components of the system to ensure a fast, responsive yet stable platform.Additionally, bolstering up the scalability of phpFox is our another target in version 4.7.0. The platform is now flexible and applicable to the expansion on server and database to deal with the large scale of requests from users.Aside from technical improvements, we also introduce you Template Skin, the pre-defined color sets for your template. This new feature brings you a completely new experience and exceptionally change the way you manage your social network appearance. phpFox 4.7.0 Highlights - Compelling Improvements on Performance. - Revamp Cache System. - Optimize Database Structure. - Improve Database Queries. - Revise Codes. - Improve Scalability. - Support multiple App servers. - Support multiple Database servers. - Template Skin.You can check out the full features and improvement of phpFox 4.7.0 in our Documentation. Installation & Upgrade We encourage you to back up your site and database before performing the upgrade. Make sure to check with 3rd-party experts about the compatibility of all the apps/templates you are using.Also, take advantages on useful guides below if you want to upgrade the site yourself.- Download - Upgrade Instructions - Installation Guide Important Note The phpFox 4.7.0 requires PHP 5.6 or later. If your server is using older PHP version, please contact your hosting provider for help to upgrade PHP version first. PHP 7.2 is highly recommended. Change Log You can refer to Changelog for phpFox 4.7.0 here. New to phpFox? If you are new and looking for a solution to build up your own Social Network, then phpFox is the right platform for you. phpFox is the ultimate solution for your social network. Thriving to be the best platform for Social Network, phpFox has everything you can expect from a social network: Full-featured, fast, responsive, stable, easy to customize, easy to scale up, Mobile-ready, several extensions from 3rd-party developers...You can build up your own Social Network within minutes with our best Support service. Ask us how and get your own license at phpfox.com Purchase New License You can purchase phpFox right now to enjoy these above perks just by clicking on the button below. We also have an exclusive 14-day Free Trial for you to try the platform before making any decision, and you can visit our Demo site anytime. Make phpFox Even Better After months of hard work and dedication, we hope phpFox 4.7.0 will be your best experience with the platform.As we committed for your total satisfaction, we welcome any feedback to make phpFox better and better every day, so feel free to let us know your thoughts on this release by emailing us at hello@phpfox.com.Also if you found any issues with this version, please let us know by submitting tickets or reporting immediately to our GitHub Tracker. We also encourage you to join and stay connected with the Community Forum.

As a turning point and ultimate proof to re-affirm mobile-ready feature of phpFox, today we are pleased to announce the launch of Developer Release for phpFox Mobile iOS app, a stepping stone to release our powerful Mobile app package.Note that the Developer Release will be limited to all 3rd-party experts for testing and experimental purposes only.A little bit about phpFox iOS app, our target is to deliver you a completed native app solution. Your phpFox app will be not only fast and responsive but also robust and interactive to any task on iOS. Let's talk about user experience first. We expect to bring a progressive mobile experience to users on your social network. Conveniently now right on the app, you can register, login, make friends, post status, view posts, and comment... Or in short, just imagine it's a portable solution for your network. In term of functionalities and features, definitely, all Core components such as Page/Group, Forum, Event, Photo/Video, Marketplace, and so many more... are also available in the app with well-designed and logic interfaces. Users can manage and control their profiles and many other personal settings right on the app. Indeed, the app is an almost full replication of your social network on the desktop version. You can bring Apple devices with the app installed and access your social network anywhere. Let's take a quick look now! [gallery size="large" link="file" columns="2" ids="6640,6683,6642,6638,6639,6643"]We hope you can found a fresh experience of your social network with our iOS app by testing this Developer Release.Let's try the app and give us your thoughts by email us at hello@phpfox.com or via Ticket System. PS: the Android app is expected to be available in November. Please stay tuned to receive our latest updates.