>>> USERS SECTION:


In the users section you can manage and insert an user/administrator in your website and create and manage the user groups. The site visitors can subscribe in the site automatically, to let that you must create a REGISTRATION page from pages section (the users so subscribed must be enabled first from the website administrator to have fully control in the user's private area).
To let that the subscribed users can enter in the private area (with login and password), you must create a LOGIN panel (see panels section).


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If you click on Add user, will appear the content of picture 1, here you can insert a new users in the database. To add a new user you must insert the all the data required in the fields (the fields with the asterisk are obligatory).
When you have inserter all the registry data of new users, you can decide what the functions that the user can use are, wath kind of user and if the user must be enabled or not. You have the follow options:

- Special user: (check it if you want this user be a special user, this option its used like memorandum);
- Enable: (if you want that the user can enter in his private area or not);
- Can write own news (f1): (check it if you want an user that can write (but not enebled) own news);
- Can write/modify own news and editorial staff news (f2): (check it if you want an user that can write news for him and for the editorial staff, WARNING: if you want to enable that option you must enable also the option (f1) );
- Can send/receive messages to/from other users (f3): (check it if you want that the user is able to excange messages with the other users);
- Can create forums (f4): (check it if you want that the user is able to create forums in the website);
- Can participate to the banners exchange (f5): (check it if you want that the user can create banners for the banners exchange program);
- Can manage own products for ecommerce (f6): (check it if you want that the user can insert own products for the ecommerce section);
- Other (from f7 to f8): (for future uses).


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In the bottom of this section there is the subscribed users list, its possible to enable/disable, to modify and to delete an user by click on [ENABLE or DISABLE], [EDIT] and [DELETE], make caution when you delete an user because if you click on delete the user will be deleted without any confirmation.
The item Lastlog indicate the date of the last user connection in to his private area (year-month-day and hours:minutes:seconds) (0000-00-00 00:00:00 indicate that the user never have been connected to his private area).


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Its possible to make an user to be also administrator by setting to "Yes" the "Make this user also administrator" option. For each administrator you can assign the permissions to manage the sections in the website (picture 3), for example if you select the icon for the F.A.Q. section, the administrator will be able to manage all the F.A.Q. in the website from the control panel (editor).
To enter in the control panel (editor) an administrator must call the "admin.php" file from the browser (for example http://www.mysite.com/admin.php) then must insert the login and password.



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If you click on Add group, will appear the content of picture 4, here you can insert a new group in the database. To add a new group you must insert all the data required in the fields.
In the bottom of this section there is the groups list (the default group its created automatically), its possible to modify and to delete a group by click on [EDIT] or [DELETE]. When a group its deleted all the users on it will be transferred in the default group (the default group can not be deleted).