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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Privacy of data on front accounting]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I want to use this software for my business. One thing i am curious about that the data that will be uploaded on this software is safe? means does it also being sent to somewhere, about the user don&#039;t know??</p>]]></summary>
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				<name><![CDATA[softpak]]></name>
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			<updated>2025-12-01T04:26:24Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Could not retrieve last order detail - Error]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hello,<br />This morning I suddenly discovered that I can no longer create any invoices in FrontAccounting. The invoice lines are missing and, when selecting a customer – some can be selected, but actively used customers cannot.<br />I turned on Debug mode and I get the following error message:</p><p>ANDMEBAASI VIGA: Could not retrieve last order detail<br />error code : 1104<br />error message : The SELECT would examine more than MAX_JOIN_SIZE rows; check your WHERE and use SET SQL_BIG_SELECTS=1 or SET MAX_JOIN_SIZE=# if the SELECT is okay<br />sql that failed was : SELECT stk_code FROM 0_sales_order_details d LEFT JOIN 0_sales_orders o on d.order_no=o.order_no WHERE debtor_no=&#039;676&#039; ORDER BY d.id DESC LIMIT 1</p><p>How can this be resolved?</p><br /><p>EDIT: As I understand it, the problem is that the database is too large and there are too many rows. Indeed, I have been actively using FrontAccounting since 2009. The database size is over 200 MB. I would like to delete some older financial years, but for some reason this is not possible. I also don’t get any error messages, even when debug mode is enabled.<br />Is it somehow possible to delete old entries directly via phpMyAdmin using an SQL command? I would gladly remove several years and make the database smaller.</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[spott]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=383</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2025-11-13T04:24:19Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10692&amp;action=new</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Error log: 4 Domain file "./lang/C/LC_MESSAGES/C.po" not found.]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I have endless errors like this &quot;4 Domain file &quot;./lang/C/LC_MESSAGES/C.po&quot; not found.&quot; in tmp/errors.log. Some of them in a variation &quot;4 Domain file &quot;../../lang/C/LC_MESSAGES/C.po&quot; not found.&quot;<br />I have already tried to set the language on en_US in php.ini<br />intl.default_locale = en_US<br />but the error still exists. Does anybody know how to fix this. I have a standard installation of FA. The only language file available is lang/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/en_US.mo. How can I get FA to use the compiled PO file and change language settings to en_US?</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[alex1452]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=48774</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2025-07-11T05:36:46Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10676&amp;action=new</id>
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		<entry>
			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Help on configuring FrontAccounting]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hello! Wanted to check how can I seek some help in configuring FrontAccounting for my use. Post installation I need help on like setting up CoA, GL etc for my custom purpose. Are there implementation partners who can provide some professional support? Pls advise.</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[ankur_agarwal]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=48768</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2025-05-31T11:48:24Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10666&amp;action=new</id>
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		<entry>
			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Backup / Restore data to a new database]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hello,</p><p>I&#039;ve been having issues with my hosting company so I finally installed FrontAccounting locally.&nbsp; </p><p>I&#039;m trying to backup and resotre the data from my hosting company database to my local instance.</p><p>I know it&#039;s not as easy as using the back/restore function in FrontAccount and making a backup on the hosting database and then restoring to my location instance.&nbsp; (as I tried that many times in the past)</p><p>So is there a guide or does someone have the steps to do this.</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[marcusblade]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=47612</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2025-05-06T14:56:48Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10661&amp;action=new</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Running FrontAccounting 2.4.18 from Synology DiskStation]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;m not a database expert, just an IT guy.<br />Took me half a day to figure things out while using ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini simultaneously!<br />So I decided to share the steps how I made it work.</p><p>Packages installed:<br />MariaDB 10<br />PHP 8.2<br /><a href="https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/help/WebStation/application_webserv_desc?version=7">Web Station</a> from Synology NAS<br />phpMyAdmin (which also installed PHP 8.0 for some reason)</p><p>Web Station app<br />Web Service<br />Default Service, Edit, set HTTP to Nginx, PHP 8.2, Save<br />Script Language Settings: Edit User-defined PHP 8.2<br />extentions enabled: curl, mysqli, openssl, zip, zlib (without zlib it wouldn&#039;t let me add languages or access Repository during setup)</p><p>phpMyAdmin app<br />created a new database called frontaccounting<br />then created a new user</p><p>File Station app<br />copy FA files to web/frontaccounting<br />set http read/write permission for frontaccounting folder, including sub-folders</p><p>Issues encountered:<br />In the beginning I was setting things up with Apache HTTP Server 2.4 service<br />when running the browser with the address IP/frontaccounting&nbsp; &nbsp;the page wouldn&#039;t load giving some page errors.<br />Once I switched the back-end server to Nginx, things just started working.</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[dimar]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=48758</uri>
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			<updated>2025-04-27T03:23:02Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10655&amp;action=new</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[ClientInfo file to be modified]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>https://frontaccounting.com/wbt/media/download_gallery/clientinfo.zip<br />The file <strong>test_cl_info.php</strong> should be modified from:<br /></p><div class="codebox"><pre><code>&lt;?php
/**********************************************
Author: Joe Hunt
Name: Test Client Info
Free software under GNU GPL
***********************************************/
$page_security = 3;
$path_to_root=&quot;../..&quot;;
.....</code></pre></div><p>to<br /></p><div class="codebox"><pre><code>&lt;?php
/**********************************************
Author: Joe Hunt
Name: Test Client Info
Free software under GNU GPL
***********************************************/
$page_security = &quot;SA_OPEN&quot;;
$path_to_root=&quot;./&quot;;
.....</code></pre></div><p>and placed in the FA application root.</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[apmuthu]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=364</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2025-02-13T18:47:33Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10641&amp;action=new</id>
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		<entry>
			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Installation]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I’m trying to setup FA, but it doesn’t work!<br />The issue might be in config_db.php but the file doesn’t exist!<br />Check the screenshot</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[mikfox]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=48724</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2025-01-31T18:58:23Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10636&amp;action=new</id>
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		<entry>
			<title type="html"><![CDATA[PHP 8 experiences]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I just recently installed frontaccounting... on a machine that has&nbsp; php 8.3.7 built compiled from source.</p><p>Here&#039;s the things that I encountered.</p><p>1. includes/db/connect_db_mysqli.inc<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; I did not have mysqli setup correctly in the php.ini<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; It took a while to find.... I think it would be helpful to put a <br />&nbsp; &nbsp; try / catch around the mysql_connect call.. <br />e.g.<br /></p><div class="codebox"><pre><code>function db_create_db($connection)
{
        global $db;

try {

        $db = mysqli_connect($connection[&quot;host&quot;], $connection[&quot;dbuser&quot;], $conne\
ction[&quot;dbpassword&quot;], &quot;&quot;,
                !empty($connection[&quot;port&quot;]) ? $connection[&quot;port&quot;] : 3306); // d\
efault port in mysql is 3306

}
catch(Exception $err)
{
        echo $err-&gt;getMessage();
}

}

/// end code</code></pre></div><p>at least then there is a message that shows up when you attempt to install</p><br /><p>2. I ran into the gettext code isssue where the language is set to C</p><p>3. when I installed the restapi - the whole process got a whole lot harder....<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; The system was not returning data at all.....</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; It turns out that the function get_magic_quotes_gpc doesn&#039;t exist in php 8.....</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The version of the api has Slim code that you have has that in Slim/Http/Request.php<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; and also its in session-util.inc</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Definitely there should be some code like...<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;if (function_exists(&quot;get_magic_quotes_gpc&quot;))<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; .......<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; The disturbing thing is that the code dies without any kind of logging....... when it hits get_magic_quotes_gpc.<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />4. an observation....<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; it seems like the frontaccount software should ship with the restapi module by default....<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;its difficult to figure out the restapi version stuff... it would make more sense if it just was in one tar ball...<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I suspect fabridge should also be that....&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;But the obvservation is just my two cents - I&#039;m sure there&#039;s<br />a rational for it to be broken up as it is.</p><p>Cheers,</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[thomasriemer49]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=48722</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2025-01-24T18:51:44Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10631&amp;action=new</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Upgrade from 2.3 to latest version of 2.4.16 or latest ver]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I am trying to upgrade from&nbsp; 2.3 to latest version of 2.4.16 or newer<br />I initially trying to follow the instruction of kvvaradha in below requiring to install first the FA 2.3.26, however installing the FA 2.3.26 in our hosting server never work even changing my php ver to&nbsp; 5,7 to 8</p><p>The API version of 2.3.26 to install is 5.0.12 </p><p>Following are the error occurs when installing the FA 2.3.26</p><p>Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; package has a deprecated constructor in /xpublic_html/front/includes/packages.inc on line 21</p><p>Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; archive has a deprecated constructor in x/public_html/front/includes/archive.inc on line 17</p><p>Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; tar_file has a deprecated constructor in x/public_html/front/includes/archive.inc on line 239</p><p>Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; gzip_file has a deprecated constructor in x/public_html/front/includes/archive.inc on line 429</p><p>Appreciate any help to solve this</p><br /><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Instruction to Upgrade from 2.3.24 to 2.4.4 on new server</p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------<br />1. First install a new copy of FA 2.3.26<br />2. Get backup from 2.3.24<br />3. Import it to the database to freshly installed FA 2.3.26<br />4. Now, goto the exports page and export it from FA2.3.26<br />5. Download a fresh stable FA 2.4.4 and install it without demo data.<br />6.&nbsp; Goto backup and restore, and import the file you exported from Fa 2.3.26<br />7. Now goto upgrade and upgrade it.</p><p>It will upgrade your database to newer version. </p><p>This procedure i followed it for FA 2.4.1 upgrade from 2.3.19 So it might work If you have problem with 2.4.4.than go with 2.4.1 and than again one more upgrade to 2.4.4</p><p>Hope this helps.<br />------------------------------------------------------------</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Marc]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=9423</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2024-12-02T01:45:01Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10618&amp;action=new</id>
		</entry>
		<entry>
			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Locating FA 2.4.18 sites]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Searching for &quot;FrontAccounting 2.4.18 Login&quot; yields quite a few FA 2.4.18 deployment sites like:<br /></p><div class="codebox"><pre><code>https://fhri.smarttools.systems
https://byzantia.capital
https://fncacctg.com/pasig2
http://34.101.78.123/--testing
https://www.royalqamis.co.ke
https://invoice.btiw.in
https://akankshaonline.com
https://varakiyu.com
https://mahs66.com/fa
https://tuckeroptimistclub.org/fa
https://www.ms.ly
https://townlinkhardware.com</code></pre></div><p>Script Installers for FA 2.4.18 are available for:<br /><a href="https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/athinfosystems1641442221349.frontaccounting?tab=Overview">Azure</a><br /><a href="https://www.softaculous.com/apps/erp/FrontAccounting">Softaculous</a></p><p>Hence for obscurity, change the Title of the login page.</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[apmuthu]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=364</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2024-10-04T19:17:26Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10603&amp;action=new</id>
		</entry>
		<entry>
			<title type="html"><![CDATA[504 Gateway Timeout]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I am doing a fresh install on a new hosting platform</p><p>In the setup wizard I get the db connection setup ok, but when I import the COA with or without demo data I get</p><p>504 Gateway Timeout</p><p>any suggestions where to look?</p><p>Is the import data local or being pulled from an FA site?</p><p>Tom</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[tom]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=331</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2024-09-25T13:54:18Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10598&amp;action=new</id>
		</entry>
		<entry>
			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Demo data]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hello Everyone,</p><p>I am wondering if there is any source that I can install demo data from. This will help understand the overall system smoothly.</p><p>Looking forward to favourable responses.</p><p>Thanks,<br />Syed</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[syedmkhan]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=48669</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2024-09-14T12:30:46Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10595&amp;action=new</id>
		</entry>
		<entry>
			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Sales Order enter/edit]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>If I want to add an item to a SO I type the Item Number&nbsp; in &quot;Item Code&quot; and the Item Description changes to the item</p><p>That is how my old installation ran but running FA 2.4.18 i sometimes see the Item Code and Description field rapidly toggle between the previous value and one I just typed. It is almost like each field has an onChange action and they are battling it out</p><p>I have found that if I type in Item Code and instead of enter or tab, if I switch to a different browser tab and go back then it is correct</p><p>Anyone seen anything like this?</p><p>I am using Brave Browser... Saying that suggests to me I should try a different browser...</p><p>I tried Chrome and it did the same thing. video attached</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[tom]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=331</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2024-08-17T14:17:53Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10583&amp;action=new</id>
		</entry>
		<entry>
			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Form for Ordering a FA Hosting Service]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10562&amp;action=new" />
			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Attached is a sample form screenshot for ordering a FA hosting service.<br />Anyone interested?</p><p>As feedback, what other minimal fields are necessary.</p><p>A note on what the initial offering entails like: 1GB, 512MB, single initial admin user, Chart of Accounts, Languages preferred, etc ?</p><p>Initially a restricted user can be provided whilst the admin user can be retained by the Hosting provider&#039;s support personnel.</p><p>The details of this form can go to a database where it can be vetted and then taken into a CRM when it becomes a potential client.</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[apmuthu]]></name>
				<uri>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/profile.php?id=364</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2024-07-10T17:19:02Z</updated>
			<id>https://frontaccounting.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=10562&amp;action=new</id>
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