General Preferences

This is the most important area when you start or maintain your myPHP-Nuke site. In this section you can modify all the relevant information for your site. One of the best features of myPHP-Nuke is that you can customize your site to fit your needs.
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Following, is a description of these options:

- General Site Info

  > (note: The first two lines and the 3rd through the 5th are the most important fields for you to fill out)

  > Site Name: In this field, list the name you have given your web site.

  > Site URL: Type your complete URL here. Be sure to include the http://. (e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com)

  > Site Logo: This logo will be located in images directory, and will be displayed only on the Printer Friendly Page. The best option is a grayscale graphic with the logo of your site. (To replace the logo that is displayed on your web site, replace the logo.gif file with your logo in the /themes/yourtheme or the /themes/yourtheme/images directory. It is best to make a custom logo for each theme, as your users have the ability to change the theme that is displayed for them)
  > Site Slogan: If you have a slogan, just type it in the form, The slogan will be displayed under your logo in all the pages for your site. If you don't want a slogan just leave it blank.
  > Site Start Date: You can write here the start date of your web activities. You can write for example: July 1st, 2000 or July 2000 or whatever you want. This information will be visible to the users only in the stats page (stats.php).
  > Administrator Email: Just write here your email address. This is used when the system send emails to the users in order to let them answer you if needed.
  > Number of Item in TOP Page: You have a TOP page (top.php) where the visitors can view the top read articles (most commented, the best poll, etc.) If you select for example 10 you will have a TOP 10 page.
  > Stories Number in the Home: How many stories you want to display on your Home page? A good number is 10, but you can select this depending on your activity. Remember that registered users can change this value to whatever they want. So, this is just a default value for non-registered users.
  > Stories in Old Articles Box: This is the number of stories that show in the Past Articles block, which, by default, will show on the right of your page.
  > Activate Ultramode?: Ultramode is a plain text file located at root dir of your site. By default this value is set to No, if you change this be sure to chmod 666 the file in order to write it. In this file will be the last 10 news headlines of your site with assorted info, fields (or news) separated by %%. This file is used to let other sites put your news in their home. The best method is to deactivate this feature and use backend.php file, which is in RDF/XML format.
  > Allow Anonymous to Post?: If you would like anonymous (non-registered users) to be able to post comments, select Yes, otherwise select No.
  > Default Theme for your site: Select the default theme for your entire site. Registered users has the ability to change the theme as well. This value is valid only for non-registered users, or registered users who have not selected a theme.
  > Select Language for your site: No explanation is needed here, select the language you want in your site.
  > Locale Time Format: Select the Locale format you want. Locales are little databases with the date, time, and other stuff in our language. Some Unix/Linux system has the locales already installed, if this is the case just select the one you want, otherwise install the Locales you need. Usually, the Locales are installed under /usr/share/locale directory.

- Banners

> Activate Banners in your Site?: Just select yes if you want banners on your site. PHP-Nuke has incorporated a basic banners system. If you active the banners and reload the Preferences page you will see a new menu called Banner Administration, where you can configure whatever you want. If you want to use another banner software, just select No.
> You IP to not count the hits: If you select Yes to the above question, you need to put your IP number to prevent the system to count your hits for the banner displayed. If you are administrator you will have a high number of page views on your own site, so if a client pays you for impressions it will not be fair to count yourself. Be honest here!

- Footer Messages

> Footer Lines 1, 2, 3 and 4: These are the text, or HTML commands that will be shown on the bottom of each page as the footer. Just write what you want. Usually here will be powered buttons, copyright messages, webmaster email, etc. If you do not need all four lines, then just leave the extras blank

- Backend Configuration

> Backend Title: Your site now has an auto-generated XML/RDF file with the latest 10 news articles. This file is configured here, so just write your page Title or site name here. You can put also your slogan after the title.
> Backend Language: The format of your site's language.
> Backend Image URL: The complete URL of the image/logo of your site. This is useful if you will have a MyNetscape Channel. Be sure to include the http:// at the beginning.
> Backend Image Width: The width of the Backend Image.
> Backend Image Height: The height of the Backend Image.

- Web Links

> Links per Page: The maximum number of links to show on each page of Web Links section.
> Hits to be Popular: The number of hits a link needs to have to be listed as popular. Popular (Best) links will show a little graphic star and will be listed in The Best Links page.
> Number of Links as New: The number of link to show in the New Links page. In that page the links will be sorted by creation date.
> Number of Links as Best: How many links you want in The Best Links page. In Best Links page will be the most Popular ones.
> Links in Search Results: The number of links to show in the results page after a search has been performed.

- Mail New Stories

> PHP-Nuke has the ability to send an email to the administrator each time a user submits a new news article. In this section you can configure the options for this email.
> Notify new submissions by email?: Just select Yes or No if you want receive the email notification.
> Email to send the message: To what email address you want notification sent to.
> Email Subject: The subject of the email.
> Email Message: Write here the message you want to receive in the email.
> Email Account: The email account to show in the From field of the email.

- Comments Moderation

> Type of Moderation: Select No Moderation, Moderation by Administrator or Moderation by Registered Users.

- Comments Options

> Comments Limit in Bytes: Selects the maximum number of bytes that comment can be. If the comment is bigger than this, the comment will show a link with the text Read the rest of this comment... which goes to a separate page for that comment.
> Anonymous Default Name: By default, Non registered users are shown as Anonymous. In this field you can change the name of all non-registered users to whatever you choose. This name will be shown with all Comments, Articles and forum posts, that are submitted by non-registered users.

- Voting Booth Options

> Max Poll Options: Set the maximum number of options the Poll can have.
> Scale of Result Bar: Set a number, multiple of 100. This will be base the percentage to that number and change the width for the results bars. If you set 3 your poll will be based on 300%... in the 99.9% of the cases you may want to leave this value to 1.
> Allow users to vote twice?: If no, the system will set a cookie with 24 hour duration to prevent the user to vote twice in that period. Also the user will see a little message in the poll result window informing of this option. If yes, users can vote as many times as they wants. This can seriously affect the results of the poll.

- Some Graphics Stuff

> In future versions, Images Paths will be fixed, there isn't any reason to change these options.
> Topics Images Path: The path in your server from where to read the topics images.
> User Menu Images Path: The path in your server from where to read all the buttons, also the buttons that are in the user page.
> Admin Menu Images Path: The path in your server from where to read the images for the admin section.
> Graphics in Administration Menu?: If you want a graphic menu in the administration section set this value to Yes, otherwise set to No.
> Site Font: You can control the font of the entire site. This value will be used in the CSS stylesheets for the body and tables.

- Miscellaneous:

  > Articles Number in Admin: Maximum articles shown in the Admin section. Used to show lists of articles, sections, etc.
  > Minimum users password length: Minimum length in characters for the user's passwords.
  > Activate HTTP Referrers?: You can know who links to your site with this feature. Just Activate or Deactivate it as you want.
  > How many referrers you want as Maximum?: If the above option is was set to yes, you need to delete automatically the database. Select the number of referrers to have as maximum.
  > Activate Comments in Polls?: Select if you want comments in Polls, or not.
  > Activate Ephemerids System?: Select yes/no to activate or deactivate Ephemerids system.
  > Activate Advanced Stats Page?: Administrators can view the most complete stats page. If you active this option you will see another box called Server Info in the stats.php file.