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| Date / User | Question | |
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| 2009-09-10 17:30 David | General: Will there by a Android or iPhone application for phpMyFAQ? | Answer |
| 2009-09-13 21:28 Sanguinarius | Administration: How do my registered users change their passwords, email, etc.? | Answer |
| 2009-10-14 07:54 Horace | Administration: How do you approve FAQs awaiting activation? I've clicked on Approve FAQs and from left to right, I have: #, sticky check box, hotlink to FAQ, date, verify link "no links", delete and copy. I see no Approve or Activate. | Answer |
| 2009-10-29 12:15 wb | General: how to make permalinks in phpmyfaq | Answer |
| 2009-11-11 08:40 Carlo Henrico | Administration: Is it possible to import FAQ's from an external Helpdesk system? I was considering adapting the Helpdesk system to indicate which support calls would be ideal to be part of the FAQ system. Use that indicator ro "export" them and then somehow import them in to the myFAQ system. Thank you Carlo | Answer |
| 2009-11-12 03:03 Ken R. | General: How do I deal with this problem? phpMyFAQ warning [2]: mssql_select_db() [function.mssql-select-db]: message: The server principal "sqlconnect.webconnect" is not able to access the database "PhpMyFaq" under the current security context. (severity 14) in Mssql.php on line 71 phpMyFAQ warning [2]: mssql_select_db() [function.mssql-select-db]: Unable to select database: PhpMyFaq in Mssql.php on line 71 Help will be very much appreciated. | Answer |
| 2009-12-10 20:08 Chris | Administration: Is there any way to allow only *REGISTERED* users in a particular group to answer a question? | Answer |
| 2009-12-11 23:37 steved@vis.id.au | Installation: Is there any documentation for upgrading from 2.0 to 2.5? | Answer |
| 2009-12-18 12:36 Luciano | phpMyFAQ 2.5: I can't create a pdf of a question with a image. Does the pdf builder support images(.png)? I get the following error: Adobe reader could not open '6[1].pdf'because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was send as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded). How can i create a pdf with a image? | Answer |
| 2010-01-23 09:55 smart answering | phpMyFAQ 2.6: how is smart answering ? | Answer |
| 2010-01-29 15:58 Gary | Administration: When a question is asked on my site is there a way to turn off the possible answers that are displayed before the question is sent? Thanks! Gary | Answer |
| 2010-02-01 11:15 Steffen Binas | phpMyFAQ 2.6: Is it possible to configure Instant Response in that way that if you type two words the results are sorted by relevance? Results matching both search terms should be shown before those with only one match. | Answer |
| 2010-02-01 20:53 Sarah | Layout: can you order the FAQ questions? We inputed them in, but not in the correct numerical order. We would like them to show up in numberical order. | Answer |
| 2010-02-12 19:11 Farooq | phpMyFAQ 2.6: I would like to add my own header & footer to all the phpMyFAQ pages. Is this possible? If yes, how? Thanks, Farooq | Answer |
| 2010-03-11 04:18 Anka | phpMyFAQ 1.5: Hi! When the users register, I must click “active” in the backend, and then they do receive the activation mail. So could you tell me how to activate the user's registration by email them automatically? Thx! | Answer |
| 2010-03-16 20:02 Brandy | Layout: I'm trying to re-do the layout of this program to fit my needs. I need to completely remove the RSS live feed. How do I stop the feed.png image and link from showing up on each category and title? | Answer |
| 2010-03-16 22:36 Brandy | Administration: Is there a way to import categories and FAQs to the database from an Excel spreadsheet? | Answer |
| 2010-03-17 17:15 xander | Administration: In the new faq alert mail notification, I'd like to have a link that provides a more simple approach that allows me to activate the new faq entry rather then having to go through the admin pages and browse the categories etc Something like that available? If not and I'd like to create that myself, which file(s) do I need to start editing? | Answer |
| 2010-03-17 17:16 xander | Administration: How can I add the category of the question submitted and (part of) the body to the mail notification alert of a new question? | Answer |
| 2010-03-17 17:18 xander | Layout: How can I add the WYSIWYG editor for the "add faq" link instead of the textarea box. I also seem to have issues with an HTTP reset when the content of the text area gets too large? (when it starts scrolling) | Answer |
| 2010-04-04 22:05 Roy | General: Hi, I notice that there isn't a demo of the site so that we can see the administrative side/administrative tools of phpMyFAQ, any chance you'll ever add a demo of the administrative side? | Answer |
| 2010-04-21 23:49 P Cooper | Administration: What file/directory contains the FAQ's once they have been entered and set as "active"? | Answer |
| 2010-04-22 12:46 mickael | Development: Hello, is there a way to send an email notification to the owner of a category when a question was asked in this category? | Answer |
| 2010-04-26 20:39 Arthur Loughran | phpMyFAQ 1.5: Is it possible to batch add FAQs? thanks, Arthur Loughran | Answer |
| 2010-05-20 22:45 Dennis | Layout: Is there a way to use a PHP include or similar code or imbed php code within the index.tpl file? I would link to include a custom PHP Header file on the top of the page. | Answer |
| 2010-05-27 19:45 Eric Carlson | Administration: in v2.6.4 I am not able to see the button/control for adding images to FAQs. Help! | Answer |
| 2010-05-28 08:21 Steve Weiland | Administration: How can I prevent users from registering? I need to have the admin create users, preferably via an API function | Answer |
| 2010-05-28 08:23 Steve Weiland | Administration: How can I prevent anonymous users from asking questions, browsing FAQ's, etc? In other words, I don't want anonymous users to be able to do anything except log in! | Answer |
| 2010-05-28 11:53 alles | phpMyFAQ 1.5: PDF files are always blank. How can I fix that? | Answer |
| 2010-06-03 08:55 Phil | General: Where can I add a user group? I didn't find any menu entry for user groups (version 2.6.5, just installed). | Answer |
| 2010-06-03 08:57 Phil | General: Is there a documentation of phpMyFAQ anywhere for download? | Answer |
| 2010-06-22 22:21 EC | phpMyFAQ 2.6: Is there any import function? I have a number of FAQ documents I'd like to export from other software, and import into phpMyFAQ. Is this possible? | Answer |
| 2010-06-23 21:40 Steven | phpMyFAQ 2.6: How can the 'Send FAQ to a friend' feature be disabled? | Answer |
| 2010-07-20 14:01 Johan | Administration: Can the newer version of phpMyFAQ use SMTP to send mail from the script via a separate server to the admin/user? We recently moved our 2.0.1 version FAQ to a new Litespeed based server which doesn't have an MTA. I had hoped to find an SMTP setting but didn't so I'll now upgrade if the more recent versions have such functionality. | Answer |
| 2010-07-20 14:36 Bertrand Gillert | Installation: I have installed Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Express) on the phpMyFAQ machine but SQL Server is not listed in the SQL server list box on the Setup page although phpMyFAQ officially works with SQL Server 2000-2008. | Answer |
| 2010-08-06 11:07 Umut ADALI | phpMyFAQ 2.6: My system is work but the search module isnt work, I can't understand why. only blank page. | Answer |
| 2010-08-08 21:24 James | phpMyFAQ 2.6: When changing to Hebrew I see lots of warnings, is it a bug in my installation because i saw it here on this site change the language to hebrew and see all the warnings, how can i hide/fix/remove them? Thanks | Answer |
| 2010-08-13 10:00 i | Administration: Is there a Demo for the Administration? | Answer |
| 2010-08-27 14:10 Jim | phpMyFAQ 2.6: I can log in to the admin site but whenever i click a link, it takes me back to the admin login page. it doesn't matter which link i use. | Answer |
| 2010-09-06 11:57 Jan | phpMyFAQ 2.6: How do I set the default language and lock to it? | Answer |
| 2010-09-08 03:09 danette | phpMyFAQ 2.6: how come it says i'm not authorized to get my stats? | Answer |
| 2010-09-21 19:54 david swenson | phpMyFAQ 2.6: can phpMyFAQ display FAQs according to the user's account level? This is about filtering search results. For example, power users can see all content, internal users can only see topics tagged ("internal", which may be 70% of the total) and external users see those topics tagged as "public", which may be 30% of the total topics. | Answer |
| 2010-11-11 20:09 Yez | : When I browser : http://localhost/faq PHPMyFAQ show me : MySQL 4.1.x / 5.x / 6.x (ext/mysql) MySQL 4.1.x / 5.x / 6.x (ext/mysqli) But, I don't have MySQL in my machine Windows 2008 R2, I have MsSQL Server 2008 ... so, PHPMyFAQ don't detect the correct Database software ... I did the same work with Windows 7 and MsSQL Server 2008 and there PHPMyFAQ detect MsSQL Server 2008 like MsSQL 2000/2005 and PHPMyFAQ works perfectly ... Somebody can help me ? Thanks ... | Answer |
| 2010-11-29 17:11 Gary | Administration: Hi I am new to phpMyFAQ. I have two questions: 1. How can I edit the message in the auto email that is sent when a User is Created? 2. How do I remove the 'Last Update:, Author & Revision info displayed on the faq web page? Regards Gary | Answer |
| 2010-12-09 11:36 simon | Installation: Hi Thorsten, Well done ... phpMyFAQ [2.6] is very nice. Small bug, PDF printing is broken. As you probably know, it can be easily fixed by adding the following to line 30 of pdf.php define('IS_VALID_PHPMYFAQ', null); Kind regards, Simon | Answer |
| 2010-12-12 16:35 mickael | phpMyFAQ 2.6: Hello, I installed the version 2.6.11, the installation went good, i received the confirmation page at the end of the setup, there were two links on this page: 1) for the admin page 2) the main FAQ page. I opened both pages (Ctrl click), everything looked fine. after few minutes, the main FAQ page was blank, I didn't make any changes yet, but the admin part still works.. very weird. I tried to switch the debug mode to "true", it worked on the admin part, but I still get a blank page, any idea??? | Answer |
| 2010-12-13 12:35 Salvador Banderas | phpMyFAQ 2.6: Hello, I am running phpMyFAQ with many languages (Spanish, English, Portuguese and Italian) and whenever I check the Top10 or the Latest FAQs RSS I get it in Spanish. I tried to pass the 'lang' parameter by GET, but only the site title and the "views" text appear to be translated. The FAQs show in Spanish, even if 'lang' equals 'en', 'pt' or 'it'. The fact is that if you go to the phpMyFAQ home page, the Top10 and the Latest FAQs are correctly shown. The problem is only with the RSS feature. Is there any known problem with the RSS feature? | Answer |
| 2011-01-13 00:43 Hello | phpMyFAQ 2.6: Is there an iphone app module for this? | Answer |
| 2011-02-18 10:40 gurra | phpMyFAQ 2.6: How do I increase the file size limit for uploading attachments to faq:s ?? | Answer |
| 2011-02-26 06:27 ovande | phpMyFAQ 2.6: How do i hide the option "Add FAQ" from unregistered users. For example, I want it to show up on the home page only when moderators (previously assigned by me - admin) log in. | Answer |
| 2011-03-07 13:31 Barbara | General: If a user adds a new FAQ from the UI Portal, how can I - as administrator see this FAQ. I get an email that a new FAQ has been added, but I don't get any indication of what it is. | Answer |
| 2011-03-08 13:02 Barbara | phpMyFAQ 2.6: I have admin rights, and tried to export FAQs in PDF format. In Firefox I get an blank page. In IE I get an error page. What do I need to do to make this work? | Answer |
| 2011-03-14 15:29 Klaus | phpMyFAQ 2.6: How can i update from 2.0.5 to 2.6.15? Version check failure: "-- pmf2.0" found, "-- pmf2.6" expected | Answer |
| 2011-03-19 23:19 Bob Duncan | phpMyFAQ 2.6: I just installed phpMyFAQ. Everything seemed to run fine, but when I log in as admin, I get the Dashboard menu, but as soon as I press any menu option, I am directed back to the admin login screen. Is there something simple I am missing? | Answer |
| 2011-03-21 00:41 dave johnson | phpMyFAQ 2.6: How can I link from existing web site to PMF for new and returning users. When they initially subscribe to main web site I would like to automatically register them in the PMF data base. For normal use, when they are on the original web site and link to PMF, I would like to pass the user name and automatically register them in PMF. Along this same concept, what is the purpose of the user name and password registration in PMF? I currently just link to PMF through a menu item and it does not appear that any registration is required. Thanks, Dave | Answer |
| 2011-03-23 17:34 Mike | Installation: What if our database is on a different server than where the KB is located? It won't let me choose our supported database (MSSQL 2005) from the drop down list because it isn't detecting it. | Answer |
| 2011-04-12 07:05 sergei | phpMyFAQ 2.6: What about sqlite3 support via PDO? My provider do not support sqlite2 I need sqlite3 to make the site as portable as possible | Answer |
| 2011-06-27 12:43 How do I handle big faq with 3 translations? | phpMyFAQ 2.6: I want to crate a faq in german, english, france. how can I handle the different translations for the items like I can do so with categories? there are more than 150 items in each langage :( | Answer |
| 2011-06-28 10:40 Klaus Brinner | : Lassen sich Logindaten aus Typo3 in das phpMyFAQ importieren oder gar abfragen, ob ein Login erfolgt ist? | Answer |
| 2011-07-08 12:51 Michal | phpMyFAQ 2.6: Hi. Would you consider placing information under '5.b. Group Administration' that it requires 'Permission level' set to 'medium' as there's no such info (I had to search forum) | Answer |
| 2011-07-26 16:36 Justin Gatewood | phpMyFAQ 2.6: Is there a widget/embed to put a short list of the most popular FAQs on another web page? (Like as an include to distribute links to the FAQ system around your various web sites, for example...) | Answer |
| 2011-08-11 12:23 Naeem | phpMyFAQ 1.5: I am currently using phpMyFAQ 1.3.3 How can I upgrade to the latest version or any interim version without losing data. | Answer |
| 2011-12-02 00:35 Megan | Layout: On the "Most Popular FAQ's" that show up, is there a way to remove the number of views? There are FAQ's that remain in this most popular list that are irrelevant, but since they have been there for years they continue to show up. Thanks in advance! | Answer |
| 2011-12-05 23:32 Christopher | Administration: Is there a way to embed links that reference a shared drive either by img or a tag? e.g. img-src="file://path/to/the/file.jpg" | Answer |
| 2012-01-03 16:19 MCEmperor | phpMyFAQ 2.7: How to use the single sign on functionality? | Answer |
| 2012-01-04 10:39 Jody | phpMyFAQ 2.7: Where can I find an online demo | Answer |
| 2012-01-10 17:16 Tom | phpMyFAQ 2.7: I can't access any of the admin pages beyond the main admin page. I login, then everytime I click on any link, it takes me back to the login screen. I login again, and get back to the main admin page. This started with phpMyFAQ 2.0.6 but I just upgraded to 2.7 and it is still happening. | Answer |
| 2012-01-17 22:24 Kedar Apte | phpMyFAQ 2.7: I installed the 2.7. When I add a new question I see saving progress bar and it never seems to finish. I read somwhere that this is known bug but then why is it not fixed in the latest ie 2.7. what is the current solution for fixing this | Answer |
| 2012-01-21 19:00 Bruce | phpMyFAQ 2.7: Is it possible to control the display order of sticky FAQs within a category? If not, is the display sort order determined in some consistent manner (e.g. reverse date of creation, alpha sort, etc.) A great package... Thanks! | Answer |
| 2012-02-10 20:32 John Erichsen | Administration: Can I increase the size of the question? | Answer |
| 2012-02-20 20:48 Ajoy Chundee | phpMyFAQ 2.7: Hi there, All of my users are allowed to administer the FAQ, and my FAQ is secured by default. So everyone has to sign in to do anything. However, once they are signed in and they go to the back-end admin section, I cannot see how to jump back out of that into the normal front end so that they can start searching. They have to edit the URL in the address bar and then navigate back to the homepage. Am I missing something here? Or can you tell me how to add a link in the PHP to the top menu bar to go back to the front page please? Thanks! | Answer |
| 2012-02-21 21:04 Silvio Macedo | phpMyFAQ 2.7: pt-BR brazillian portuguese is wronge - uppercase BR but lowercase br in the files. Therefore, no FAQ with automated language detection works - page appears BLANK - absolutely blank. Quick solution: symbolic link : ln -s language_pt-br.php language_pt-BR.php | Answer |
| 2012-03-07 01:12 Gordon | phpMyFAQ 2.7: I've installed the application and am able to access the admin section without any issues. However when I am at the home screen (non-admin), all links lead to a 404 error. Is this an issue with htaccess or settings? | Answer |
| 2012-03-12 12:44 Christian Kaiserseder | : Hallo! es gibt das Problem, dass auf einem Win7 Pro System mit IE9 die FAQ's (sowohl www.phpmyfaq.de als auch die FAQ als Content einer Website) mit einer leeren weissen Seite angezeigt werden. Der IE9 meint, die Site im Kompatibiltäts-Modus öffnen zu müssen und zeigt weisse Seite. Was kann man da tun? Ist dieses Problem bekannt. Danke. MfG Christian Kaiserseder | Answer |
| 2012-03-28 10:53 johnpt | phpMyFAQ 2.7: Silly question but, how do we install this in Ubuntu? Tried aptitude but to no avail. Reply will be much appreciated. Thank you | Answer |
| 2012-04-28 08:11 admin | phpMyFAQ 2.7: include files must have the file extension | Answer |
| 2012-05-03 03:43 teste | General: teste | Answer |
| 2012-05-03 19:16 Jörg Heßdörfer | phpMyFAQ 2.7: Is there a way to disable captchas for logged-in users but require anonymous users to enter a captcha? | Answer |
| 2012-05-11 09:18 asdf | : asdf | Answer |
| 2012-05-14 21:48 sunny | Layout: nnnknnnnn | Answer |
| 2012-05-19 20:27 Rahul | phpMyFAQ 2.0: Testing out | Answer |
| 2012-05-22 04:00 kka | phpMyFAQ 2.7: 11111111 familyholder | Answer |
| 2012-05-24 13:01 Dan Owen-McGee | phpMyFAQ 2.7: Just installed. Connections to MySQL seems OK BUT can't login the 'admin' user!! On submit, screen refreshes and blanks the form fields. Something in php.ini I should be enabling. Everything mentioned in documentation has been enabled. | Answer |
| 2012-05-28 18:57 Uwe Twelker | phpMyFAQ 2.7: Single-Sign-on: If I use phpMyFAQ within another portal that requires a login can I setup phpMyFAQ so that it uses the same login data? | Answer |
| 2012-05-31 17:30 ines | phpMyFAQ 2.7: We want to add an html user documentation accessible with the same login password. Is it possible with phpmyfaq ? How can we index the questions with the faq to link them ? | Answer |
| 2012-06-06 10:20 Braam | phpMyFAQ 2.7: How do you automatically append text to faq? | Answer |
| 2012-06-10 03:05 Steve | phpMyFAQ 2.7: I want to make some modifications based on whether someone is logged in or not. Is there an easy way to detect that a person is logged in? | Answer |
| 2012-06-15 10:17 Greg | phpMyFAQ 2.7: I have just installed phpMyFaq2.7, I am logging on as admin with all rights assisgned to me. When trying to add the first category I get the error that I am not authorized. Also when trying to add a new user I go through the process click add, it appears to be successful but the new user does not show up. Help | Answer |
| 2012-07-01 20:13 harshila | phpMyFAQ 2.7: is there a way to directly import the questions to the tool | Answer |
| 2012-08-13 20:18 MRT | : Can I remove "powered by phpMyFAQ" from the footer? Is it OK for MPL and phpMyFAQ? | Answer |
| 2012-08-21 15:46 Gipsy | : Hallo Support-Team, ich möchte mich auf euer Forum registrieren, weil ich nicht mehr weiterkomme, bzw. vllt ist das auch ein Bug ? Aufjedenfall wenn ich auf „Register“ => „Agree“ drücke, dann kommt folgende Meldung: --------------------------------------------- General Error SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ] Table './db117702_1/phpbb_qa_confirm' is marked as crashed and should be repaired [145] An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists. --------------------------------------------- Was ist das los? Könnt Ihr das bitte beheben. Danke Alexander Häberle | Answer |
| 2012-08-28 16:24 Martin | General: Is there a way to remove the social media buttons, and the rss feed button? | Answer |
| 2012-08-31 00:35 David VanVranken | phpMyFAQ 2.7: I need the ability to have multiple tiers of viewer groups for an online systems manual. i.e. employees see some FAQ's, managers see the employee posts, plus higher level posts. Department heads see theirs, plus the two lower tiers. If I can group FAQ's into multiple groups, that could work but I don't think it's possible yet, is it? And if not, how long do we wait? This could be the "deal breaker" between using this, and abandoning it completely. | Answer |
| 2012-09-07 10:48 Testuser | phpMyFAQ 2.8: You dont have | Answer |
| 2012-09-12 05:27 sashika | phpMyFAQ 2.8: How to integrate phpMyFAQ login with rubycas server ? | Answer |
| 2012-10-29 16:46 Liza | phpMyFAQ 2.8: How do I set up an approval workflow for any records? | Answer |
| 2012-11-20 04:56 Danny | phpMyFAQ 2.8: My question is how the hell is that even possible? | Answer |
| 2012-12-08 01:22 StickySolutionz | phpMyFAQ 2.8: when installing i get error: DB error: no database selected. I have clearly selected a DB, any idea what the problem is? | Answer |
| 2013-01-12 16:09 ???????? | : ???????? | Answer |
| 2013-01-15 14:33 Richard tudge | phpMyFAQ 2.7: How do you add more than one Admin users with the rights to activate users who register through the front end ? | Answer |
| 2013-01-18 11:45 Richard Tudge | phpMyFAQ 2.7: I thought it was possible to paste images into FAQs in the editor but this does not work for me, am I missing something ? Thanks | Answer |
| 2013-01-31 17:14 jatoja | : fdfdfdfs | Answer |
| 2013-02-05 18:06 Tom McSweeney | phpMyFAQ 2.7: A banner started appearing across the top of the KB saying, "Do you know that your Internet Explorer is out of date? Please use Internet Explorer 8+, Mozilla Firefox 4+, Google Chrome, Apple Safari 5+ or Opera 11+" I am using IE 9. Why is this appearing? | Answer |
| 2013-02-08 10:37 anonymous | phpMyFAQ 2.7: just want to test the Add question option | Answer |
| 2013-02-08 10:40 TESTER | phpMyFAQ 2.7: another test | Answer |
| 2013-04-05 01:56 Jesse | phpMyFAQ 2.7: How do I disable HTTPS / SSL in all my urls? I can not login to admin because it takes me to a HTTPS address? | Answer |
| 2013-04-14 02:28 Mario Rendon | phpMyFAQ 2.8: I have a faq and a web page to manage a software is there a way to add question by other software? i mean an integration between systems? i woud like to make a faq question autmatically if certaint event is triggered on the server is this possible? | Answer |
| 2013-04-14 02:30 Mario Rendon | phpMyFAQ 2.8: A question coudl include HTML code? i woudl like to embeed some pictures on a question is this possible? | Answer |
| 2013-04-23 04:33 427 | : ???? | Answer |
| 2013-05-03 15:43 Collin Apodac | phpMyFAQ 2.7: I love the system but am confused as to how you setup email notifications? I don't see anything in the docs or really any mention of it in the support forums. Thanks! | Answer |