phpFox Reviews & Product Details

Update: I've been using phpFox for over 2 years. The software updates are regular which help keep the site secure and up-to-date and the supportive team are very helpful. The platform is feature rich and continues to fulfill a lot of my members needs. Keep up the excellent work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Update: Continue to focus on making the features more intuitive for the end user to use and flexible for the admin to manage. Continue to improve ability for admin to manage the site via the back-end admin dashboard and the frontend website (as a member themselves) with some cross-functional admin abilities on the front-end and back-end. Keep up the excellent work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using phpfox for a while now and I must say it is the destination especially for startups who intend to build platforms for social networking community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some features would need additional development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PHPFox is very feature rich out of the box. Marketplace, blogs, forums, photos, groups, polls quizzes... the list goes on. It also serves as a solid content management system. There are plenty of tools to track and monitor site activity. Easy to deploy and install on web host server. Solid development backing from the developers PHPFox also provides the source code for both mobile and web applications at the highest licensing tier. Their customer support is spot on, even though there is an 8 hour time zone difference and all tickets are handled via an internal text based ticketing system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the latest version of PHP is far more responsive and stream lined that version 3, the underlying Laravel Platform is far different from the previous PHP application structure which makes customization extremely difficult if your not familiar with that coding practice. Upgrade from Version 3 to 4 and now to 5 has proven cumbersome with a noteable amount of missing capabilities on some pre existing core features. However, the latest MetaFox V5 is in it's infancy and shows promise if the developers commit to introducing all of the previous features of version 4. License and cost is high in comparison to some competitors. But its perpetual from what I understand and customers are free to modify the code as they see fit to meet their business purposes. Upgrading from one version to the next is extremely cumbersome, especially if there is custom work involved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very customizable with so many 3rd party apps.

You can add your own apps too.

Also, I really like the permissions you can give to each type of user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes login and logout can be a bit slow.

If you add too many 3rd party apps, the problem starts showing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.