You can download PHPMembers membership software from our download page. The membership software is free for non-commercial use if you link back to our website or keep the copyright information intact. For commercial use, you must purchase commercial license for each website running the membership system. Please visit license page for more information about our license agreement.

System Requirements

The membership system requires the following hosting environment:
PHP 5.2 or above
MySQL 5 or above
Apache 2.2 or above

Unzip and Upload PHPMembers

The membership system is distributed as a zip package file. You can use any kind of unzip tools to decompress it. All files of the membership system are under folder "phpmembers". You can use FTP clients to upload the files to your website.

Run Installation Wizard

Once you complete uploading the membership system, open a web browser and go to the URL of the system. Then you are taken to the installation wizard of the membership system. The installation wizard guides you through the installation process step by step. In the process, the installation wizard asks you to provide the following key information about the system.

• Website Name: The name of your website. You can make changes to this setting after the system is installed.

• Website URL: The URL of your website without slash at the end of it. (e.g. http://www.yourwebsite.com)

• Website Root Path: The system full path of your website. If you do not know your website system path, please ask your web hosting service provider.

• System Folder: The folder you install the membership system in. It must begin with a slash and end with a slash. If you install the system in root folder, you should input a slash here.

• Set New User Status To: You can set the new user status to enabled or disabled. Disabled users are not allowed to login to the system. You can make changes to this setting after the system is installed.

• Allow Users Sign Up: This setting controls the sign up function. By selecting “No”, you can close sign up function to the public. You can make changes to this setting after the system is installed.

• Email Verification Is Required: With this setting, you can decide whether to verify user email addresses before they can login. You can make changes to this setting after the system is installed.

• Cookie Domain: The domain name of your cookies. (e.g. .yourwebsite.com). For localhost testing, just leave it blank.

• Cookie Prefix: The prefix of your cookie names.

• System Email Address: The system uses this email address to send out system emails.

• Send Email Function: You can choose using PHP sendmail function or a SMTP server to send out emails from the system. If you choose SMTP, you must fill in the SMTP server settings.

• Email Format: You can send out HTML or plain text emails.

• Database Server: MySQL database server name. Usually it is “localhost”.

• Database Port: MySQL database port. Usually it is 3306.

• Database Name: MySQL database name.

• Database User: Your MySQL database user name.

• Database Password: Your MySQL database user password.

• Table Prefix: Prefix of the membership system table names in MySQL database.

• Database Backup Folder: The path you would like to save database backup files to. It is strongly recommended that you choose a folder which can not be accessed from web.

Create Admin Account

The membership system asks for your email address and a password to create an administrator account after you complete the above steps. You can login to the system with the admin account later after you complete the installation process.

Remove INSTALL Folder

The last step of installation requires you to remove “INSTALL” folder in the system for security reasons.