Dolphin 6.1 Tutorials
Dolphin 6.1 Tutorials
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Dolphin Tips, Tutorials, Guides, Resources for 6.1 - pre Dolphin 7.
Dolphin Tips 07-23-08 Dolphin Tips Some thoughts and ideas... In our opinion the #1 thing you can do is choose a suitable host. Some web hosts are just not setup or configured for Dolphin.... What is Dolphin 07-23-08 What is Dolphin? Dolphin is Social Networking, content management system(cms), with Audio, Video, Blogs, Story's, Articles, Friends List, a Built in Mail System and much more... ... Profile view after login instead of member page 07-23-08 How to change the page your members land on (redirect to) after login. By default your members will see the member.php after logging in. Many prefer that their members see the profile page afte... Change your site title and site email address 07-23-08 How to change your site title and site email address. This gets asked quite frequently. How do I change the title of my website? And how do I change my site's email address? (for things such ... How to Remove Disable the HTML button in Dolphin Orca editors 07-23-08 Many do not want there users to be able to use or see the html button in the various editors. This can be removed very easy with 1 line of code. The Dolphin part is very easy if you want... Prevent access to pages by non-members or guest visitors 07-23-08 This question gets asked often. How can I prevent a guest or non-member or from accessing a particular page? This again is a fairly simple modification. You can apply this to most files in yo... Secure Your Admin Panel 07-23-08 Have you hired someone to install Dolphin? Maybe you had someone install a mod, or other service. If so something you should always consider checking your database with a tool such as phpmyad... SafeHTML Remote File Inclusion 07-23-08 Update An Official Security Patch for Dolphin Version 6.1.2 has been released. Please see my recent posting regarding this here: Official Security Patch for Dolphin Version 6.1.2 This... Updated Php Info from Admin Panel 07-25-08 Since the release of Dolphin 6.1.x a convenient phpinfo.php file has been included in your admin panel located at yoursite.com/admin/phpinfo.php. Problem is most do not know it is there or eve... Official Security Patch for Dolphin Version 6.1.2 07-23-08 An Official Security Patch for Dolphin Version 6.1.2 has been released. This update/patch addresses several security issues in relation to the Dolphin script. Anyone running Dolphin 6.1.2 s... Php Info from Admin Panel 07-23-08 This was recently updated to include viewing phpinfo with in your admin panel instead of just a link to it. Please see this article if you are interested in phpinfo within your admin panel: ... .htaccess & php.ini Help Guide 09-12-09 How to increase your Boonex Dolphin and Ray file upload size, limits, times, etc. using .htaccess or php.ini associated with ray music uploads, ray mp3 uploads, and ray video uploads. This in... Auto-Approve Profile Backgrounds 08-24-08 You Have Auto-Approve Setup, but Profile Background Pictures Still Show in Admin Panel.When a user uploads a profile background in the customize profile area it does automatically upload and activ... Delete Messages from Outbox Mod 08-26-08 Add the option to "Delete" messages/mail from your outbox in Dolphin 6.1.For some reason there is no option to delete messages from a members outbox. Eventually they do get deleted by cron based o... Age to Date of Birth Mod 08-29-08 This was originally posted in Boonex Unity Forums here: http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/#topic/Age-v-Date-of-Birth.htm It seems there was some confussion regarding this, and in c... How to Remove the URL and Embed Area of Video Info 09-10-08 Tested with Dolphin 6.1.4If you do not really like the idea of providing the link or embed code for the entire world to potentially use and link to your site you can simply hide this from your mem... How to Insert Your Ad into Movie Player 09-24-08 Insert your own add, banner, or even google adsense into the movie player. Works with Free or AdFree version. No boonex ads are removed in your Free version. You are simply placing an ad. under th... How to Add a Spell Check Feature 10-04-08 How to Add a Spell Check Feature in tinymce / editors for post blog, post event, post classified.Be sure to back up any files you will be editing first.Screen Shots: 1... Transparent Profiles 10-05-08 Be sure to backup your original profile_view.css for fast restore in the event that this doesn't work for you.Partial Transparency will allow your members profile background color or profile backg... How to Insert Google Adsense Ads in Blog Posts 10-07-08 This is based on Dolphin 6.1.x code.You can ad Google Adsense to the top area of a Blog Post. Display Google Adsense at the bottom of a Blog Post or both.You should be familiar with Google Adsense... How to Add Google Analytics Stats to your Dolphin Site 10-11-08 First get yourself a google analytics account if you do not already have one at:www.google.com/analytics/Setup your site in your google analytics account. You will need to place the code google gi... How to Add a Favicon.ico to Your Site 10-12-08 First you will need to create a favicon.ico or download one from some where.Here is just one example of a site that you can create one at:http://www.favicon.cc/-otherwise just search google for fa... Tom Like Myspace Mod 10-18-08 Ever wanted your members to have a friend after signing up similar to what Myspace.com does? Tom is your friend automatically after joining Myspace. Your member profile for the Tom Mod would be a ... Change Top and Bottom Links to Other Pages 10-18-08 Ever wonder how to change where the very top and very bottom links actually go to?I've been asked a few times not how to change what they say, but when clicked on where they actually go.Occasional... How to determine which .html page 10-18-08 How to determine which .html page is being used or referenced.You can make some simple and easy edits to your Dolphin site by simply editing or altering the .html page associated.If you are using ... How to change the Bottom Copyright 10-19-08 This gets asked fairly often and is actually fairly fast and easy. It gets asked a lot in the Boonex Forums, but I thought I'd write a quick guide up and include some screen shots.First login to y... Change Top - Bottom Link Text and Content 10-20-08 First login to your Dolphin Admin Panel. Find "Settings" then "Languages Setttings" In the "Search for Strings" enter "about us" and click the "Search" button as pictured. You should get similar r... How to create a simple IFRAME 10-21-08 Basically in simple terms an iframe is loading another page within a page. This can sometimes be rather convenient for Dolphin.Maybe you want to load a .html page into your Dolphin site? Maybe you... How to Hide Comment Points 10-26-08 For some sites and people the Point Rate + | - in comment areas of profile, blogs, gallery photo's, gallery music, gallery video, and classifieds just are not needed.It really don't do much anyway... Dolphin 6.1x Invite a Friend bug 10-27-08 Dolphin 6.1x Invite a Friend bug:I just noticed a problem with the "Invite a Friend" link. It works fine in the Dolphin area, but if you go to your Orca Forum and, then try to click on "Invite a F... Show Newest Comments First at Top 10-28-08 Reverse comments order and show newest most recent comments at the top of the list. By default the newest comments appear at the bottom of the list. This can be confusing if you have a bu... How To Make More Comments Visible 10-30-08 This is for Boonex Dolphin 6.1x By default Dolphin 6.1x will display the first 5 comments in all areas of your site. So when #6 or more comments are left a small link with "Show 6-10" will appear.... Dolphin Contact Form Glitch - Fix 11-01-08 This has been present ever since Dolphin 6.1x came out, possibly even prior to 6.1.If someone sends you an email using the contact form...yoursite.com/contact.php you receive the message to the em... Change Number of Members Display 11-04-08 If you use the default Dolphin UNI template and you reach 30 members or more you will notice on your browse.php page that there are 7 members across with the standard 960px page width.Now what hap... Add Online - Offline Icon to Profile Picture 11-06-08 Here is one that was posted in the Boonex Unity forums and is floating around Expertzzz too. It simply adds the little online/offline icon to a members profile picture in the top right corner of a... Shorter Photo Gallery Titles 11-07-08 If you are seeing display errors with the "Title" of your Photo Gallery Pictures on yoursite.com/photo/all/10/1, the page you are brought to when you click on the "Photos" link in the top navigati... 2 Column Site Stats 11-11-08 Some people have asked if it's possible to make the "Site Stats" area 2 columns instead of 3 columns. This is handy for Dolphin sites that have a smaller width, if you have a 3 column main/index p... Change or Remove Items From Site Stats Block 11-12-08 Maybe you don't use or allow Movies/Videos or you don't want blogs to show up in the list. Perhaps you just want to change the order or sort of rearrange the order they appear. If you don't use or... Add A Second Administrator to Dolphin 11-16-08 Occasionaly we might have the need to add a second administrator to our Dolphin Admin Panel. Maybe you are having someone install a modification. Maybe someone is checking your admin panel for you... No Ajax Pop-Up Login Window 11-21-08 If you are having problems or issues with the ajax pop-up login when clicking on the "Member Login" link in the top right corner of your site you can do away with the pop-up login.Maybe you just d... Change The Pop-Up Ajax Login Color and Design 11-22-08 The Pop-Up Ajax Login looks decent and matches the default Dolphin Template Theme fairly well. If you have a custom theme or changed the default template it may not match so well anymore.Maybe you... Add Google Adsense Block Using Dolphin Admin Panel 11-25-08 I was a little reluctant to write this one because it has been done elsewhere before, but it's been asked several times recently again. So I thought why not, someone will get some use out of it.Ho... Change the Amount of Tags on Homepage 11-29-08 How to reduce the number of tags that display on your home page. Default is set to 50. For some this is too many, for other this is not enough. This is for Dolphin 6.1 x Versions. This i... Change Edit Remove the Dolphin Promo Block 12-11-08 How To Change Edit or Remove The Dolphin Promo Block for Boonex Dolphin 6.1x...I have seen this asked at Boonex Unity a number of times in the last week or so...How do I change, edit, or do away w... Orca Forum and Feeds in Same Browser Window 12-13-08 This was mentioned recently and I actually meant to write something up about this, but since adding the forum spy modification to the main page this slipped my mind. If you want your Boon... Create a Custom 404 Error Page 12-16-08 How to create a custom 404 error / page not found for your Dolphin site. Some hosting accounts come pre-configured or setup with a 404 error page, others allow you to make one through you... Snow Flake - Snow Fall Modification 12-22-08 This Snow Flake - Snow Fall Modification should work with all Boonex Dolphin Verisons. Here is a nice snow fall script modification for anyone interested in adding a little snow flakes to... Show Random Photos On Profile Page 12-26-08 How to show Random photos on your Dolphin members Profile Page "photo gallery" area instead of latest photos.This is for Boonex Dolphin 6.1xThe fastest and easiest ways to accomplish this would be... Random Photos In Profile Photos Block 12-26-08 How to show Random photos on your Dolphin home page "Profile Photos" Block instead of latest.This is for Dolphin 6.1xThe fastest and easiest ways to accomplish this would be simply editing the BxD... How to reset, change, and restore your Boonex Dolphin Admin Panel Password 05-16-09 Can't access your Boonex Dolphin Admin Panel?Have you forgot your Boonex Dolphin Admin Password or Login? This doesn't happen very often but it does happen on occasion. Maybe you installed Dolphin... Improve Image Quality of Boonex Dolphin 05-26-09 Although I have never had any issues with the uploaded image quality of Boonex Dolphin maybe you do, or maybe you want to reduce the image quality or attempt to improve it. If image quality is goo... Boonex Dolphin Hosting and RMS at Bluehost Hostgator Hostmonster Terabyte-Hosting 05-31-09 Boonex Dolphin Hosting and RMS at Bluehost, Hostgator, Hostmonster, and Terabyte-HostingDolphin will work at Bluehost, Hostgator, and Hostmonster if you install it properly. You won't be able to i... Boonex Dolphin Database Error Cron Report Email 06-05-09 Boonex Dolphin Database Error Cron Report Email Security Tip.One of the more common Dolphin Error Reports you will receive in your email is the Dolphin Database Error Report.You will see something... How to Turn Off Dolphin Cupid Mail 06-09-09 How to Turn Off Dolphin Cupid MailHave you ever wanted to turn off the Boonex Dolphin Cupid Mail feature completely? Maybe your site just don't need Dolphin Cupid Mails. Or maybe you just don't li... How To Enable Dolphin Short Open Tags 06-19-09 If your Boonex Dolphin site is only showing a bunch of code similar to the following:not installed. "; if ( file_exists( "install/index.php" ) ) { echo "Please, wait. Redirecting you to installat... Dolphin Persistent Mysql Database Connect 09-13-09 How to change Dolphin's Persistent Mysql Database Connect to Non-Persistent Standard Connect. Some shared hosting providers may complain or even suspend your account for using too many re... Dolphin with www prefix or non-www-version 09-17-09 How to change your Dolphin site so it will use the www prefix or only http.Do you want to use the www prefix (http://www.yoursite.com) or the non-www-version (http://yoursite.com) in your browsers... Optimize Boonex Dolphin Database 10-04-09 How to Optimize your Boonex Dolphin Database.In this article I will show you how to optimize your Boonex Dolphin Database overhead.Over time your database may start to perform poorly. We could att... How to change Dolphin About Us page 10-20-09 How to change or edit Dolphin About Us Page:This one is frequently asked "How do I change the information on the About Us Page". The screen shots provided in this tutorial article are from Dolphin... How to change Dolphin Privacy page 10-20-09 How to change or edit Dolphin Privacy Page:This one is asked fairly often "How do I change the information on the Privacy Page". The screen shots in this tutorial article are based on Dolphin 6.1x... How to change Dolphin FAQ Page 10-22-09 How to change or edit the Dolphin FAQ Page:This one is also asked often "How do I change the information on the Dolphin FAQ Page". The screen shots in this tutorial article are based on Dolphin 6.... How to change Dolphin Terms Page 10-24-09 How to change or edit the Dolphin Terms or Terms of Service Page:This is asked frequently "How do I change the information on the Terms Page". The screen shots in this tutorial article are based o... Add Bookmarking - Sharing to your Dolphin Articles 11-01-09 How to add Social Bookmarking and Sharing to Dolphin Articles. Increase traffic to your Dolphin site by adding a simple and convenient share button to your Dolphin Articles.One of the thi... Add Social Bookmarking and Sharing to Dolphin Blogs 11-04-09 How to add Social Bookmarking and Sharing to Dolphin Blogs.Increase traffic to your Dolphin site by adding a simple and convenient share button to your Dolphin Blogs.One of the things you can do i... Dolphin Meta Description and Meta Keywords 11-07-09 How to change your Boonex Dolphin Sites Meta Description and Meta Keywords: The Meta Description is what will show up in most search engines so it is a good idea to fill this out if you h... How to move Dolphin to another Folder Directory 12-13-09 How to move Dolphin to another directory / folder location:For Dolphin 6.1x VersionsMove your Dolphin site from:yoursite.comTo:yoursite.com/dolphinAside from moving the actual files and folders wh... How To Remove Hide Hello Member Actions 12-16-09 How To Remove Hide Hello Member Actions:For Dolphin 6.1x Versions:After logging in as a member, in the top right corner you will see your little welcome...member name and under it will be links to... Reset or Restore Files Owned 99 By The Server 12-21-09 If you have been trying to edit, delete, or overwrite some files in your Dolphin setup, but receive a permission denied, upload failed, or similar this might be what you have been looking for.If y... |
