Removing "Powered by aMember Pro membership software"

Discussion in 'Templates customization' started by rodneys, Sep 3, 2007.

  1. rodneys

    rodneys New Member

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    Hello...I've installed amember couple of months back on my server....The line "Powered by aMember Pro membership software" is displayed in almost all the pages..... Is there any way to edit/remove that line to just amember.com or something...

    Please post your answers..

    Thank you
  2. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    Check out the file /templates/footer.html and other template files.


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  3. rodneys

    rodneys New Member

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    Checked all the files in /templates/ folder.....coulnt find that.....i guess its in Smart....donno how to remove it...

    Please help..
  4. nicotido

    nicotido New Member

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    1. Go to /templates/signup.php
    2. Remove = <p class="powered">Powered by <a href="http://www.amember.com/">aMember Pro</a> membership software</p>
  5. andymaung

    andymaung New Member

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    dunno is it legal to remove the powered by tag?
  6. armago

    armago New Member

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    The aMember License Agreement (link) states explicitly:
    • The Software source code may be altered (at your risk)

    There's nothing illegal about removing the "Powered By" in the footer. Granted, it's good form to give credit where credit is due. However, you're not prevented from modifying the footer. In fact, it might be advisable to do so for the same reason you don't want your FTP server to advertise that it's IIS running on Windows, or vsftp on Solaris, or whatnot -- you're begging malicious users to research vulnerabilities in your software.
  7. alexander

    alexander Administrator Staff Member

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    Yes this is legal.
  8. bs73112

    bs73112 New Member

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    Too bad that isn't a configuration option. :)
  9. feverx

    feverx New Member

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    There is no admin configuration for it at the time of this reply (that I'm aware of). Additionally, there is no template file for it either (that i'm aware of).

    However, depending upon your language selection, you can edit the DEFINE for it in the language files. /launguage/en.php if you are using English.

    For the website template somewhere around line 15 in en.php you'll find:

    define ('_TPL_POWEREDBY', 'Powered by %saMember Pro%s membership software');

    ..and again for the email template, somewhere around line 121 you'll find.

    define ('_TPL_EMAIL_VER_POWEREDBY', 'Powered by %saMember Pro%s membership software');

    You can change the string to anything you want, such as:

    define ('_TPL_POWEREDBY', '');
    define ('_TPL_EMAIL_VER_POWEREDBY', '');

    if you want to make it blank. For some reason, you might want to preserve the original string, in which case you can copy the line and comment it out as such:

    //define ('_TPL_POWEREDBY', 'Powered by %saMember Pro%s membership software');
    define ('_TPL_EMAIL_VER_POWEREDBY', '');

    The // will comment out the original line and render it useless to the PHP interpreter.

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