PHP-Fusion is a lightweight open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. PHP-Fusion utilizes a MySQL database to store your site content and includes a simple, yet comprehensive and complete administration system to manage your sites.
We are launching a product which will configure and publish PHP-Fusion, an open source content management system which is embedded pre-configured tool with LAMP and ready-to-launch VM on Azure that contains PHP-Fusion, Apache, MySQL, Linux, PHP (LAMP).
PHP-Fusion is an all in one integrated and scalable platform that will fit any purpose when it comes to website productions, whether you are creating community portals, blogs or just personal sites.
User interaction features include:
Other Features:
General:
License : AGPL, Programming Language : PHP 5, Data Management : MySQL, MySQL Database layer, IPv6 Support, XHTML 1.0 Valid
Basic Features:
Theming, User Preferences, Multi Site, Forums, Web Links, News System, Photo Gallery, Articles System, FaQ System, Contact Form, Comments API, Ratings API, Search API, Shoutbox, Site Polls, Forum Polls, Messaging.
Output Handling:
Custom head tags for all scripts, Custom Output Handlers, Output Manipulation, Dynamic Page Titles
Themes:
Front-end Theming, Table based Themes, Div based Themes, Customization Options, Custom Search Modules, Custom User Fields, Custom Infusions, Custom BBCodes, Custom Themes, Custom Smileys, Custom Panels, Custom Pages
Security:
Members Management (Suspensions, Bans, Security Bans, Anonymize, Deactivate), Users can log in on different devices simultaneously setting, Maintenance mode can be activated, MIME file checker, Bad words list, Email Bans, Password Hashing, Admin Rights, CAPTCHA, Securimage, Securimage 2, reCAPTCHA, Panel Disabling, Admin Password, User Admin Separated by Rights, Flood Control, Bad Words Filter, Flood Auto Ban Option, SHA256 password hashing, Individual salt for all users, Errors only visible for Administrators
Site settings:
Site Protocol, Site Host, Site Path, Site Port, Site Keywords, Site Description, Site Locale, Enabled Languages, SMTP Host, SMTP Port, SMTP Authentication, SMTP Username, SMTP Password, Site Theme, Error Log, User Log, Default search location, Admin Password Reset, Drag and Drop panels, Edit robots.txt, Custom Error Logging, Use TinyMCE HTML editor, Allow Guests to post, Enable comment system, Enable avatar comments, Enable ratings system, Enable visitor counter, Display site render time ( Yes, All, Yes, Only Admins, No ), Enabling / Disabling user Theme Changes, Include or Exclude a panel from certain pages, Choice of Captchas.
Users:
Registrations, User Levels, User Groups, User Fields, User Fields Categories, Public / Private Profiles Option, Super Admin All Access, Submissions ( News, Photos, Articles, Links, Downloads ), Edit / Delete Own Comments, Edit / Delete own Shouts, Admin Options in Profile, User Avatar Auto Resize, Members Management, User Bans, Private Messages, IP Bans, Registration Terms, User Management Admin Settings, Visitor Counter Toggle On / Off, Online Users Panel, User Info Panel, Email activation, Custom required fields, Avatar Resize, News, Drafts, Ratings, Comments, Categories, Submissions, Start and end date, Custom News Images, News Image Link Option, Number of news items displayed Option
Forum:
Forum Privileges, Forum Categories, Moderation Feature, Thread Tracking, Usergroup as Moderator, Forum Polls, Mass Post Delete, Mass Thread Delete, Post Moving / Merging, Seperate Forum Prune, Image Resizing, Forum Ranks, Forum Threads Panels, Flood Control, Print Post, Print Thread, Numbered Posts, Links to Posts, Member IP Visible for Admins, Locale buttons, Edit / Delete own Posts, Locale dependent forum buttons, User Group Forum Ranks, Multiple attachments, Attachment rights, Display default avatar image, Post Edit Reason, Post Auto Merger, Go to Top
Articles:
Drafts, Ratings, Visibility, Comments, Categories, Submissions, FaQ, Categories, Question, Answer, Web Links, Site Name, Description, Site URL, Photo Albums, Watermarks, Move Images, Submissions, Photo Upload, Album ordering, Photo ordering, GD Compression, Photo Mass Uploads, Delete Full Albums, Downloads, Short description, Description, URL or File upload, Calculate file size toggle, Screenshot, Categories, License option, O/S option, Version option, Homepage option, Copyright option, Filesize option, Comments, Ratings, Time and Date Settings, News & Articles date formats, Sub-header date formats, Forum date formats, Default timezones, Short date format, Long date format, Server offset , Guests offset
3rd party components:
TinyMCE, HTTPDownload, PHPMailer, jQuery, jQuery Highlight, Colorbox
Miscellaneous:
Labels for check boxes, Items Per Page Settings (Forums, Articles, Downloads, News, Links, Shouts), Enable disable Comments & Ratings Admin Option, Hidden threads / posts / comments / shouts, PHP Info, CSS Classes, Captcha API, Infusions, Custom Admin Rights
Panels:
User Info panel, Member poll panel, Forum threads panel, CSS Navigation panel, Online users panel, Latest articles panel, Welcome message panel, Latest comments panel, Latest downloads panel, Forum threads list panel
It will take a few minutes for your VM to be deployed. When the deployment is finished, move on to the next section.
Connect to virtual machine
Create an SSH connection with the VM.
bashCopy
ssh azureuser@10.111.12.123
Usage/Deployment Instructions
Step 1: Access Phpfusion from Azure Marketplace and click ON Get it now button.
Click on continue,
Now click on create
Step 2: Now to create a virtual machine, enter or select appropriate values for zone, machine type, resource group and so on as per your choice.
Step 3: Use the browser to access the application at http://<instance ip address> replace <instance ip address> with the actual ip address of the running instance.
Note: You will get the Instance IP Address as shown in the screenshot below:
Step 4: Select the language and proceed till database configuration screen.
Step 5: For setting up MySQL database user do the following steps:
Do SSH into your instance.
Type the following commands:
Command: sudo su
Command: mysql –u root –p
Type in the password as: Niles@123
Type the following commands to make a new database and user as per your choice:
Command: Create database <database name as you like>;
Command: CREATE USER ‘<username as you like>’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘<password as you like>’;
Command: GRANT ALL ON <database name>.* TO ‘<username>’@’localhost’;
Command: FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Command: exit;
NOTE: Please don’t forget to set the <database name as you like>, <username as you like> and <password as you like> in the above mentioned commands to run the product smoothly.
Click on “proceed”.
While Installing use the following detail as given below:
Host: localhost
Database Name: phpfusion
Username (for Database): root
Password (For Database): Niles@123
Step 6: Enter the admin details and proceed.
Login and enjoy the application.
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