Datalife Engine Administration is the backend script control, in Admin CP, you can manage, configure, edit, modify, disable, enable and remove all functions of Datalife Engine, in this article we will show you the overviews of Datalife Engine Administrations, and we will go and overview one by one administration options in the new tutorials. Access to Datalife Engine Administration is simple and easy, if you login to your website and your...Read

When adding a news website you need to specify the title of article. SEO URL field is not required because it will automatically generate the SEO URL from the title. You can specify as custom url or you can leave it blank, then the text will be generated from the title of the article or from the article subject. Date filed sets the date of the news, if mark checked on Current Date then it will automatically insert the current date, with the...Read

Edit News in Admin CP pretty much the same and identical to add news, except for the additional fields for Date. You can either change the date by leave the marked Do not change the date of the news, or remove the checkbox, and then use Current date and time, or enter your date using calendar....Read

System Settings and Configuration is the the overall parameters and settings of the system, the settings are for different settings for each module and functions, simply click on the appropriate icon tab. Here are the information some details for the important setting you must pay attention on:...Read

Antivirus : Check script for suspicious files, this module is available in Admin CP, the module is using AJAX to check any suspicious files on your server, by default the module will check the script files that comes with script against the file lists you have in your server. The module uses antivirus class to identify the file list, it also uses snapshot features to save the white list of all files when you see if they are safe and trust, the...Read

Categories is one of the most important section in DLE Administration, in category manager you can Add, Edit, Remove, Sort and specify themes and other category configurations. The Category Manager can be access via DLE Admin CP under Advanced Options (admin.php?mod=options&action=options) and go to Categories or using direct access URL http://yoursite.com/admin.php?mod=options&action=options There 2 main sections in Category Manager:...Read

Maintenance Option in Datalife Engine Administration is for Optimize database, Repair database, Database Backup and Database Restore, this option is very useful for backup and restore your website database, backup and restore without having to login to your PHPMyAdmin and Datalife Engine have done a wonderful works in this function and make it easy to use for users, Maintenance Option comes with 3 functions (options)...Read

Video player settings is the Flash and video player settings in Datalife Engine, the module is for video players configuration and management that used to publish video on the Datalife Engine website, in General settings, you can specify the player size, use build-in player to play youtube video, set the watermark for embed in video and set most of everything about the video and flash player. In this tutorials we will show you the options to set...Read

Custom Fields, sometime called "Additional Fields" or "XFields", is the special extended plugins in Datalife Engine, when you post anything on your website you will have shortstory and fullstory fields for you and your members to add news and articles, however, you can create other fields to enter information, such as a link to the source or program, there is something extra that you want members to add in to specific fields and information you...Read

Questions and Answers, is the new feature in Datalife Engine 9.4, the purpose of this module is for better security from spammers, nowadays we see more and more spammers show up in every website around the Internet, this module is intended for site protection from those spammers, by adding the new security question to the website will help protect and stop spammers from posting comments, registration and so on......Read

In this section you can edit your own profile (as admin profile), to change E-mail address, change the custom fields in the form of full name, location, ICQ, setting a new password. This option only available for Administrator Group, this option is pretty much the same as user profile but it's quick profile settings and if your Admin account is primary admin account created when you install the script and use the same email for website primary...Read

This page will allow you to manage users in the entire website, you can search users using multiple options and filters which make it easy to administrator to centralize and manage users for your Datalife Engine website. There are many options to manage users including search, edit, delete, change user group, delete comments, clean up private message for specific user or use mass actions with ease....Read

Xfields for user profiles is the custom field manager for User Profile of your website, the Xfields for user profiles you have created will be automatically added to your form when user register or edit profile to your website on both frontpage and from Admin CP using tag {xfields} in registration.tpl and userinfo.tpl, but will not automatically display in your website when display user profile and comments, you must specify the the fields to...Read

User Group Manager : Create or edit user groups and Usergroup Manager...Read

Edit Templates : Manage styles and templates...Read

Censored Words, word filtering, Add, remove or replace censored words...Read

IP Based Access : Choose who can and who cannot connect to your website...Read

IP Utilities : Search users by IP address...Read

Find and Replace : Find and replace data in MySQL database...Read

Rebuild Publications : Force to rebuild and re-save the articles on the site for the old articles, some of the settings the script, as well as changes in the parser script...Read

List of Complaints : Manage the complaints or error reports from users for news/articles, comments or personal message (PM)...Read

Performance Analysis : list of recommendations for the settings to reduce server load...Read

Cross-reference : create cross-references to the site for different keywords...Read

Website Rules : General Website Rules...Read

Static Pages : Create or edit static pages...Read

MySQL Optimization : Remove outdated content from the server...Read

Send bulk messages or emails to users...Read

Poll Manager, Create online surveys and gather user feedback...Read

Image and file Manager for Upload and manage images and files...Read

Advertising Banner Ads Management System...Read

Create and manage Google Sitemap for DLE...Read

RSS Feed Manager: Add and manage RSS feeds...Read

RSS Informer Module...Read

Manage keywords and tag cloud...Read

A list of all actions performed in the Admin CP for the last 30 days...Read

One feature of the engine is that it is possible to use any existing design without feeling any restrictions. The engine supports multiple templates simultaneously. All templates are in the folder /tеmplates/. Each subfolder in this folder is a single site model. So if you upload a new skin for the engine, just copy it to a folder and allow its use in the admin panel. Also, we can allow change to the design of your website visitors and they will...Read

The basic layout of your page in the template file main.tpl This file loads the engine in the first place and connect it to any other engine components, which is the main file to load all modules and display results. {AJAX}, {info}, {content}, {custom} these tags are used for the correct News conclusions....Read

When writing or adding news you can use the following tags, if you do not use WYSIWYG Editor mode: (However, some of these tags are also applied to WYSIWYG Editor), but tags are only used by WYSIWYG editors which is not included in here please prefer to WYSIWYG editor user guides because many of them use default editor tags and code which will be parsed to all editors...Read

Features of the engine allow each registered user to add their favorite news in their bookmarks. Don't get confuse with bookmark in the tabbed browser (This is not browser feature, it's DLE feature). After logged in, each visitor can add this item to favorites by clicking the plus sign, then he/she can easily browse through the news or comments regardless of the news without using the search option....Read

All logged in users can send each other private messages. These messages can then be viewed, deleted and reply back. It uses a separate template for message to send, view and reply them. When editing this template, be extremely careful. In order not to disrupt the functionality of this module. To edit this template does not require knowledge of PHP, but you need to understand HTML and its features. In other words just do not change unnecessarily...Read

DataLife Engine likes many other CMS that use option for web owners to enable or disable SEO (User-friendly URL), and Datalife Engine is fully support SEO in 3 different SEO Formats, which allows the title of the article or add any other text in the browser URL, thanks to the indexing in search engines will be better, showing result in bring more visitors to your site from search engine systems. To manage the SEO is necessary that your server...Read

Datalife Engine can automatically identify your site visitor's devices they use to visit your website. And if the user comes to your site from the mobile device, the DataLife Engine is able to recognize it and prepare for the display of a special lightweight version of your site, with a minimum of graphics used for traffic....Read

DataLife Engine is now support complaints and reports systems from visitors, your site visitors and members can now easy report the grammatical or other errors on the website. The Visitors and Members on your website can simply select any text using browsers and press Ctrl + Enter and the popup windows will let them send a notification of a grammatical error in the highlighted text. The user can select any text on any page of your website....Read