• Adding the login box to your homepage is now easy. To create a link like this: Login
  Close

  Login

  
  

  Email address
  
  Password
  
  
  
  
  

  
  I forgot my password | Register
  
  (which displays the login box within your page). All you need to do is add the PHP code below to your homepage:
  <?php $location = "phpautomembersarea/members/"; //use this setting to include the link on your homepage or any other page on your root //assumes you have retained the folder name: phpautomembersarea - change as appropriate include($location."include-login-link.php"); ?>
  Note: only add the link at the top of a page
  

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• Creating private content
  (allows you to provide individual files for each member if required)
  
  To activate this all you need to do is:
  1. Your system will automatically create private folders - to change this see the $create_private_folders variable in the file: /members/constants.inc.php
     New folders are automatically created in this location:
     /members/content/Private_folders_ONLY/[username]/
     So if their username was "them@theirdomain.com" it would be:
     /members/content/Private_folders_ONLY/them-at-theirdomain.com/
     
     * new folders are now created by replacing the "@" with "-at-"
     (if old folders exist with the "@" symbol then it will still work)
     
     
     
  2. Set the folder:
     /members/content/Private_folders_ONLY/
     to read and write - chmod to 777 (there are several help pages devoted to this task here)
     
     
  3. Then, each time a new member joins the files, if any exist, will be copied from:
     
     /members/content/DEFAULT_specific_member_pages/
     
     to the new folder automatically.

• Display a Notice to New members
  - displayed to new members on first login only.
  New members will be shown the file:
  /members/content/_NEW-member-welcome.html
  
  This is shown just once, on first login if the variable $show_new_member_welcome is set to true in the file: /members/constants.inc.php

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• Integrating phpBB forum
        Note: You must make a separate install of phpBB to use the following

Backup before implementing.   BACKUP now, wait, someone will still not bother! 
Backup, do not come whinging.....

If you intend to use phpAutoMembersArea as your authentication system (allowing automatic access to phpBB by all existing and new phpAutoMembersArea members) then complete the following:

• edit the file: /members/constants.inc.php
  changing the constant FORUM_ENABLED to true
  
  
• edit the phpBB register file:
  /forum/styles/[style-name]/template/ucp_register.html
  
  Remove the HTML and replace with your own HTML such as:
  
  Please login or register here:
  [create a link to your phpAMA login page]
  

Note: you may also need to amend the constants: FORUM_LOCATION and FORUM_FOLDER_NAME within the /members/constants.inc.php file.
       The default settings are for the following folder structure:
                   
Also, for this to work correctly both phpAutoMembersArea and phpBB need to be on the same domain/web space (but can use the same or different databases).  When setup you will be able to access your phpBB forum as an administrator from the main menu (system watch section).

Creating a link to the forum - use the file:
    /members/content/Forum (phpBB access).html
or just make a link to /members/phpbb/_phpbb_login.php
it is secure to link directly to this file - only if your member is logged in will they be logged into your forum.

Existing phpBB members!
If existing phpBB members logs into phpBB from within phpAMA then it will create a new phpBB account, unless they have logged into phpBB via phpAMA previously.
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.


New phpBB members
The new username will be the same as the phpAutoMembersArea 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.  

Restricting access to phpBB
Login as an administrator to phpBB and Go to Administration Panel
- then click on the permissions link on the left.
       For more details on this please refer to the phpBB site.

• Altering the Company name
  This can be changed by altering the value assigned to CO_NAME within the config.inc.php file.  This is set when you first install the application.

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• Changing the footers
  You can easily add your own html to both /members/footer.html and /_admin_/footer.html
  (where _admin_ is the original name of the admin folder)

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• Changing the headers
  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.  The header files are /members/header.html and /_admin_/header.html
  (where _admin_ is the original name of the admin folder)|

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• Registration: Changing the final message displayed
  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 /members/constants.inc.php file.

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