License

To install Sngine or even to open a support ticket you must know your Purchase Code of Sngine and to get your Purchase Code

1. Login to Codecanyon and open your downloads https://codecanyon.net/downloads
2. Click on the download button of Sngine and download License certificate & purchase code You can download it as a PDF or text file
   

   

3. You will find your code as the following
   

   

How to Install

1. Now make sure you created an empty MySQL database along with an user for it.
2. After unzip Sngine Files, you will found Script Folder
3. Start your FTP client (Like Filezila which is free) and login. Login to your server. You will need your host name (often times this will be your domain name), username, and password that you setup with the hosting company.
4. Locate the domain folder you wish to upload your Sngine files to on your server. You are going to upload all files located in Script Folder to your FTP client.
5. Once the files are done uploading, you have to change chmod of content/uploads folder and content/themes/default/templates_compiled folder to 777.
6. Just goto your website and Sngine installer wizard will run automatically http://yourdomain.com/path_to_script
7. In case you got the following error "wizard cannot create the config file" just make sure that the includes folder is writable "777" then go and empty the database then try to run the installer wizard again and after installation change it back to its normal permissions.
8. Sngine installer wizard is very clean, you will need to put your Purchase Code at step #2 and the rest is simple just follow the video tutorial
   

   

   
   

Facebook

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Facebook with it to let your users login with their Facebook accounts

1. First goto: https://developers.facebook.com and Sign in with your Facebook account
2. Now click My Apps and click Add a new App
   

   

3. Fill the form and click Create App ID
   

   

4. Then select the Facebook Login and click Setup and select Web Then enter your website URL and click Save
   

   

   

   

5. Now go to Settings and enter your domain or subdomain where you installed Sngine in the App Domains Also provide Privacy Policy URL and Terms of Service URL you can use your Sngine static pages for these also you will need to select the app Category and click Save Changes
   

   

6. App still "In Development" mode and to make the app public, Click on the Toggle button and then Confirm
   

   

   

7. Also make sure you added your website URL in Site URL
   

   

8. Now go to Facebook Login Settings and put the following URL as Valid OAuth redirect URIs then click Save Changes
   Make sure you have enabled the Use Strict Mode for Redirect URIs

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly like www.domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/connect/facebook

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly but without www like domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://domain.com/connect/facebook

   If you installed Sngine in sub-domain like sub.domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://sub.domain.com/connect/facebook

   If you installed Sngine in a directory like domain.com/directory the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/directory/connect/facebook

   

   

9. Now goto to Sngine Admin Panel -> Settings -> Registration Settings -> Social Login tab and paste both keys (App ID & App Secret) as shown
   

   

Google

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Google with it to let your users login with their Google accounts

1. First goto: https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/sign-in and Sign in with your Google account
2. Click Configure a project and select a prjoect or Create new project
   

   

   

   

3. Enter your webite link in Authorized Javascript Origin
   

   

4. Copy both Client ID and Client Secret
   

   

5. Now go to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/dashboard and select your project and click on Credentials and click Edit
   

   

   

6. Provide this URI as the Callback URL for your application as following:

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly like domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/connect/google

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly but without www like domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://domain.com/connect/google

   If you installed Sngine in sub-domain like sub.domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://sub.domain.com/connect/google

   If you installed Sngine in a directory like domain.com/directory the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/directory/connect/google

7. Now goto to Sngine Admin Panel -> Settings -> Registration Settings -> Social Login tab and paste both keys as shown
   

   

Twitter

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Twitter with it to let your users login with their Twitter accounts

1. First goto: https://developer.twitter.com and Sign in with your Twitter account
2. Click Create an app and fill the form
   

   

   

3. Provide this URI as the Callback URL for your application as following:

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly like domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/connect/twitter

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly but without www like domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://domain.com/connect/twitter

   If you installed Sngine in sub-domain like sub.domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://sub.domain.com/connect/twitter

   If you installed Sngine in a directory like domain.com/directory the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/directory/connect/twitter

4. Now back to your app page and open Keys and tokens tab to copy both (API key) and (API secret key)
   

   

5. Now goto to Sngine Admin Panel -> Settings -> Registration Settings -> Social Login tab and paste both keys as shown
   

   

Linkedin

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Linkedin with it to let your users login with their Linkedin accounts

1. First goto: https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps and Sign in with your Linkedin account
2. Click Create Application and fill the form
   

   

   

   

3. Now back to your Authentication and Provide this URI as the OAuth 2.0 Redirect URIs for your application as following:

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly like domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/connect/linkedin

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly but without www like domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://domain.com/connect/linkedin

   If you installed Sngine in sub-domain like sub.domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://sub.domain.com/connect/linkedin

   If you installed Sngine in a directory like domain.com/directory the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/directory/connect/linkedin

   

4. Go to Products tab to see if you got login product approved or not yet
   

   

5. If your app got approved Now goto to Sngine Admin Panel -> Settings -> Registration Settings -> Social Login tab and paste both keys as shown
   

   

Vkontakte

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Vkontakte with it to let your users login with their Vkontakte accounts

1. First goto: http://vk.com/dev and Sign in with your Vkontakte account
2. Click Create an Application and fill the form
   

   

   

3. Now back to your Settings page and enter your domain name as base domain & Provide this URI as the OAuth 2.0 Redirect URIs for your application as following:

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly like domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/connect/vkontakte

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly but without www like domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://domain.com/connect/vkontakte

   If you installed Sngine in sub-domain like sub.domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://sub.domain.com/connect/vkontakte

   If you installed Sngine in a directory like domain.com/directory the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/directory/connect/vkontakte

   

4. Now copy both Application ID and Secure key
   

   

5. Now goto to Sngine Admin Panel -> Settings -> Registration Settings -> Social Login tab and paste both keys as shown
   

   

Instagram

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Instagram with it to let your users login with their Instagram accounts

1. First goto: https://www.instagram.com/developer/register/ and Sign in with your Instagram account
2. Click Register Your Application then Register a New Client and fill the form
   

   

   

3. Provide this URI as the Valid redirect URLs for your application as following:

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly like domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/connect/instagram
   

   If you installed Sngine in your domain directly but without www like domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://domain.com/connect/instagram

   If you installed Sngine in sub-domain like sub.domain.com the URI should be like this:
   https://sub.domain.com/connect/instagram
   

   If you installed Sngine in a directory like domain.com/directory the URI should be like this:
   https://www.domain.com/directory/connect/instagram
   

   

4. Now follow the following steps to get the right permission for your App
   

   

   

5. Now fill the following form and submit
   

   

6. Instagram team will review your request and after your app get the approved and now in the Live mode not Sandbox
7. Now goto to Sngine Admin Panel -> Settings -> Registration Settings -> Social Login tab and paste both keys as shown
   

   

PayPal

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate PayPal with it to let your users use it

1. First goto: https://developer.paypal.com/developer/applications/ and Sign in with your PayPal account
2. Now under Sandbox click Accounts then click on Create Account button and fill the form
   

   

3. Then Create Personal (Buyer Account) and fill the form
   

   

4. Both accounts will be linked with your new PayPal app for SandBox Mode
5. Now click My Apps & Credentials
   

   

   

   

6. Now if you will use PayPal in SandBox (Test) Mode Copy Client ID and Secret
   

   

7. For Live Mode Copy Client ID and Secret from Live Tab
   

   

8. Now goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> Payments Settings and paste both Client ID and Secret and select the mode you want Test or Live
   

   

Stripe

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Stripe with it to let your users use it

1. First goto: https://dashboard.stripe.com/ and Sign in with your Stripe account
2. Now click Developers -> API Keys
   

   

3. Copy API Keys then goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> Payments Settings and paste all and select the mode you want Test or Live
   

   

4. For Live you will need to activate your account first
   

   

CoinPayments

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate CoinPayments with it to let your users use it

1. First goto: https://www.coinpayments.net/ and Sign in with your CoinPayments account
2. Now click Account -> Account Settings
   

   

3. Click on Merchant Settings tab and enter IPN Secert You can enter any string you want but try to make it difficult like a password
   

   

4. Now Click on Basic Settings tab and copy your Merchant ID then goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> Payments Settings and paste both Merchant ID and IPN Secret and enable the CoinPayments and click Save
   

   

   

2Checkout

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate 2Checkout with it to let your users use it

You can start integrate 2Checkout with 2 modes Live mode for live and real payments or Sandbox mode for testing and will clear both mode for you!

Sandbox Mode

1. First goto: https://sandbox.2checkout.com/sandbox and Sign in with your 2Checkout sandbox account or create a new one
2. Now click API tab and copy both API Keys

   Note

   You can test the 2Checkout payments later with this Sample Test Data

   

3. Click on Account Icon on top-right and copy your Account Number (Merchant Code)
   

   

4. Now goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> Payments Settings and paste both APIs Keys and Account Number (Merchant Code) and enable the 2Checkout on Sandbox mode and click Save
   

   

Live Mode

1. First goto: https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel/ and Sign in with your 2Checkout live account or create a new one

   Note

   Your 2Checkout live account need to be activated to start using the live mode

2. Now click Integrations and from API sections you will copy both APIs Keys and Merchant Code
   

   

3. Now goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> Payments Settings and paste both APIs Keys and Merchant Code and enable the 2Checkout on Live mode and click Save
   

   

Amazon S3

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Amazon S3 with it to let your users use it

1. First goto: https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home and Sign in with your Amazon account
2. Now click Services And Select IAM under Security, Identity & Compliance
   

   

3. After complete setup the IAM Service, Now click Delete your root access keys tab then Manage Security Credentials button
   

   

   

   Now click Access keys (access key ID and secret access key) tab then Create New Access Key button
   

   

   

4. Now click Services And Select S3 under Storage
   

   

5. Now click Create bucket
   

   

   

   

   

6. Now Make sure you have gave public access to your bucket
   

   

7. Also make sure you configered the CORS configuration by adding this XML code

   
   	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   	<CORSConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
   	<CORSRule>
   	<AllowedOrigin>*</AllowedOrigin>
   	<AllowedMethod>GET</AllowedMethod>
   	<MaxAgeSeconds>3000</MaxAgeSeconds>
   	<AllowedHeader>Authorization</AllowedHeader>
   	</CORSRule>
   	</CORSConfiguration>
   									

   

8. Also make sure you added the Bucket Policy by adding this code in Bucket Policy, You’ll need to replace “YOUR-BUCKET-NAME” with your full bucket name

   	                            
   	{"Version": "2008-10-17",
   	"Statement": [{"Sid": "AllowPublicRead",
   	"Effect": "Allow",
   	"Principal": {
   	"AWS": "*"
   	},
   	"Action": "s3:GetObject",
   	"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::YOUR-BUCKET-NAME/*"
   	}]}
   	                            	

   

9. Now goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> Upload Settings and paste both Keys
   

   

DigitalOcean Spaces

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate DigitalOcean Spaces with it to let your users use it

1. First goto: https://cloud.digitalocean.com and Sign in with your DigitalOcean account
2. Now click Spaces And Click Create a Space
   

   

   

3. Now make sure from space settings page that Everyone can list the space files
   

   

4. Now click API And Click Generate New Key and copy both Key & Secret
   

   

   

5. Now goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> Upload Settings and paste both Keys and your space name and location and after click Save Changes click Test Connection
   

   

Twilio SMS

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Twilio SMS with it to use SMS it for account activation and for the two-way verification

1. First goto: https://www.twilio.com/console and Sign in with your Twilio account
2. Now copy both ACCOUNT SID and AUTH TOKEN
   

   

3. Now Select Programmable SMS and Create new service
   

   

   

   

4. Now goto to Numbers and Buy a Number
   

   

   

5. Now goto to Phone Numbers service and copy your number with no spaces or dashes like this +123456789
   

   

   

6. Now goto to Sngine Admin Panel -> Settings -> SMS Settings and paste both keys and phone number as shown also you can add your own number to test your settings (Save First before Testing)
   

   

BulkSMS

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate BulkSMS with it to use SMS it for account activation and for the two-way verification

1. First you need to create your account on https://www.bulksms.com/
2. You can buy Sender ID if you want to be the name of your website
   

   

3. Now goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> SMS Settings and open your settings page and paste your account username and password
   

   

Infobip

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Infobip with it to use SMS it for account activation and for the two-way verification

1. First you need to create your account on https://www.infobip.com/
2. Now goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> SMS Settings and open your settings page and paste your account username and password
   

   

Twilio Video/Audio Calls

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Twilio Video/Audio Calls with it to let your users use it

1. First goto: https://www.twilio.com/console and Sign in with your Twilio account
2. Now copy ACCOUNT SID
   

   

3. Now Select Programmable Video then select Tools -> API Keys and click Create new API Key
   

   

   

4. After added your API name and click Create new API Key You will get your API SID and API SECRET
   

   

5. Copy both and Now goto to Sngine Admin Panel -> Settings -> Chat Settings and paste ACCOUNT SID and API SID and API SECRET as shown
   

   

Google Maps

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Google Map API with it to let your users use it

1. First goto: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key and Sign in with your Google account
2. Now click GET STARTED
   

   

   

   

   

   

3. From API Console make sure you have the following APIs enabled from your project Dashboard, Also the API key is not restricted
   

   

   
   

   

4. Now goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> Post Settings and open your settings page and paste this key
   

   

Google Vision

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Google Vision API with it to use the adult image detection feature

1. First you must have a project on Google developers and you can check how to do it from here: Google.
2. Now goto: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/dashboard and Sign in with your Google account
3. Now click library and search for Vision and then make sure it's enabled
   

   

   

   

4. Now you can get the API key from Credentials
   

   

   
   
5. Now goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> Uploads Settings and paste this key
   

   

Yandex

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Yandex with it to let your users translate posts

1. First goto: https://translate.yandex.com/developers/keys and Sign in with your Yandex account
2. Now click Create a new key
   

   

   

   

3. Now goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> Post Settings and open your settings page and paste this key
   

   

Giphy

After installing Sngine now you can in easy steps integrate Giphy with it to let your users search GIFs from Giphy

1. First goto: https://developers.giphy.com/ and Sign in with your Giphy account
2. Now click Create an App
   

   

   

   

3. Now goto to your Sngine Admin panel -> Settings -> Post Settings and open your settings page and paste this key
   

   

Android App

1. Import your APP into Android Studio (Make sure you have latest Android Studio v3.4.1+)
2. Change App Name - Open "Andriod\Sngine\app\src\main\res\values\strings.xml"
   

   

3. Change your website link from "Andriod\Sngine\app\src\main\java\sngine\app\webview\SngineConfig.java"
   

   

4. Change App Icon from "Andriod\Sngine\app\src\main\res\raw" and "Andriod\Sngine\app\src\main\res\mipmap-*"
5. To change package name from "sngine.app.webview" go to "Andriod\Sngine\app\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml" and set the cursor on sngine press Shift+F6 and Rename Package to whatever you want
   

   

6. To change your applicationId from "sngine.app.webview" go to "Andriod\Sngine\app\build.gradle"
   

   

7. To change your App Splash Screens "res/layouts"
   

   

8. Export your APK

IOS App

1. Import your APP into XCode
2. Change your website link
   

   

3. Change your App name
   

   

4. Change your App icons
   

   

5. Change your App Splash Screens
   

   

General

What PHP framework Sngine is built on?

We don’t use any frameworks, Sngine is full pure PHP code.

What is best hosting for Sngine?

You can check our blog post to learn more:
https://blog.sngine.com/best-hosting-for-sngine/

Can I run Sngine in more than one domain?

No, You can't run Sngine at 2+ end-products at the same time with same purchase code even for testing or development (domain.com, sub.domian.com, domain.com/dir are 3 differnt end-products), However you can install and run Sngine on your localhost along side with your live server with no probelm. For more info check the Envato license policy
https://codecanyon.net/licenses/standard

When is the next update coming up? what are the new features?

When we have something to announce we will announce about as usual also there is no specified date for every new update, We really encourage you to join Sngine group on Facebook to see more discussion about what's coming next:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sngine

Can support team install/update Sngine or Build the apps for me?

No support not include any customization or installation service for building apps for your, Kindly check Envato item support policy:
https://codecanyon.net/page/item_support_policy

Can support team install/update Sngine as freelance work?

Yes we provide installation and update service as a freelance work, For any Freelance work you can contact our development team from the contact form:
https://codecanyon.net/user/zamblek#contact

Installations

I have 404 error and links not working! Why?

Simply you forgot to upload the .htaccess file, Check this tutorail to learn more about this:
https://blog.sngine.com/links-not-working-in-sngine-why

I got this error during the installation "wizard cannot create the config file" How to fix it?

Just make sure that the includes folder is writable "777" then go and empty the database (remove any table from it) then try to run the installer wizard again and after installation change it back to its normal permissions.

Running

How to run Sngine on HTTPS?

Simply you will edit the config file, Check this tutorail to learn how to do it:
https://blog.sngine.com/how-to-run-sngine-on-https

I can't find any sitemap with Sngine! Where is it?

There is no sitemap comes with Sngine as there is no need for it, Check this link to learn more about this:
https://blog.sngine.com/sngine-sitemap/

How to use SMTP for emails with Sngine?

You can use SMTP with Sngine and to learn how to do it check this tutorial:
https://blog.sngine.com/smtp-email-settings-in-sngine/