Thanks to everyone who has help me with TheMediLounge
Here is a list of mod changes I have used, that are listed all over the forum from different dolphin users. I have put them together in one place in hopes that you won't drive the people on this forum CRAZY like I did so many nights. You know who you are.
If anyone else can add to this list please do.
Coding mods for the Dolphin Newbie
How to add moderators to your chat room:
Yes, you can make moderators for you chatroom as well. I little weird how its done, but here is how:
**Whoever you want to be a moderator HAS to be in the chatroom at the time you do this
From Admin Panel, Click Modules>Flash Apps> Open the A/V Chat and click the Admin button underneath it. This will launch a new window from within the Admin Panel. You are now logged in as the Chat Administrator. Click the person you want and then click Moderator. That’s it!
You can assign multiple if you want. Now that person has the ability to Kick and Ban from the chatroom.
Creating a search engine friendly new Dolphin page ¶
Navigate to Admin Panel -> Builders -> Pages Builder
Click the New Page link in the upper right corner
Enter a new name -> Press Ok
After page reload you need to create columns by clicking the Add column link
Then you can create HTML or RSS blocks by dragging them from the Samples area to the columns you created. You need to release the blocks only after you can see a placeholder in the Active Blocks. Sometimes you will need to drag the block to the lower-left corner of the area to see the placeholder.
After you have completed, click the View page link above the Active Area block
You will see a page with the address like http://yoursite_url/viewPage.php?ID=NewPage
Open the .htaccess file in your Dolphin's home directory, find the following line:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
and insert the following line before it:
RewriteRule ^NewPage$ viewPage.php?ID=NewPage [QSA,L]
Note: If the name of your page contains spaces, you need to specify the previous instructions the following way:
RewriteRule ^New\sPage$ viewPage.php?ID=New+Page [QSA,L]
After that your new page will become available at the URL: http://yoursite_url/NewPage or http://yoursite_url/New Page (with a space)
N.B. You have to replace the NewPage with your desired page name.
Now you will be able to add this link to the navigation menu using the Navigation Menu Builder
How to change chat box title:
The easiest thing to do is from Admin Panel got to Settings>Language Settings and in the "Look For:" box put in this
Acronym
_chat_page_caption and put a check mark in the Apply. Edit the string that it
pulls up and type in whatever you want your Chat page to say. (This will change
the name in the browser bar at the very top)
You can also repeat the same steps for _chat_box_caption and this will change
the name of the caption displayed at the top of the Chat box.
How to keep shout box message from disappearing:
go to admin panel/modules/shoutbox/ put 0 for "Clean message older than (sec)
How to get rid of sex and age in the chat room:
flash/modules/chat/langs/english.xml
line 21
"txtUserCaption"><![CDATA[#nick# #age#, #sex#.]]></item>
item key="txtUserCaption"><![CDATA[#nick# #age#, #sex#.]]></item>
change to
item key="txtUserCaption"><![CDATA[#nick#]]></item>
How to get rid of the Hot List:
edit templates/base/scripts/BxBaseCommunicator.php and remove 'hotlist_requests' => _t( '_Hot lists' )
_t( '_MEMBERS_YOU_HOTLISTED' )
_t( '_MEMBERS_YOU_HOTLISTED_BY' )
How to remove the sex symbols next to profile picture:
edit member.php
From:
$sProfileIcon = ($this->aMemberInfo['Sex'] == 'male') ? $sMaleIcon : $sFemaleIcon;
To:
//$sProfileIcon = ($this->aMemberInfo['Sex'] == 'male') ? $sMaleIcon : $sFemaleIcon;
------------
From:
<img src="{$sProfileIcon}" /> <img src="{$sProfileIcon}" />
To:
<!--<img src="{$sProfileIcon}" />-->
How to remove sex symbols from various places, follow file path:
html/templates/base&file=mail_box.html
remove: <img src="__member_sex_img__" alt="__member_sex__" />
html/templates/base&file=mail_box_contacts_list.html
remove: <img src="__member_sex_img__" alt="__member_sex_img_alt__" />
html/templates/base&file=communicator_page.html
remove: __member_sex_img__
How to remove Hotlist Requests:
html/templates/base/scripts&file=BxBaseCommunicator.php
'hotlist_requests' => _t( '_Hot lists' ),
How to add a Fav Icon:
Fav icon is in public_html
hey Magnussoft, I just uploaded my favicon.ico to my root directory and I still haven't seen the icon showing up yet. i installed dolphin in public_html/main folder so I put favicon.ico in main folder. right? Anything else i need to edit? what about _header.html?
hat is the file format of
your favicon size and color depth?
Most modern browsers support a favicon in either gif,png and jpg which you just
rename to favicon.ico
Older versions of IE required the the favicon.ico file be in icon format. No
longer the case.
The image size should be 16x16 or 32x32 and be 8 or 24 bit color depth.
Put this <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> in < head > PUT HERE < /head > section. templates/index.html
Should work within an hour.
e size is 16px by 16px and the depth is 8. I just saved the file as jpg and renamed it to favicon.ico I put the file in the main directory. I cleared all cache. The icon still doesn't show up after a couple hours.
@rhimpr
I added the extra tag in template/index.html and it still doesn't show up after a couple hours.
It's so weird. I feel like i'm the only one having this issue. :-/
ang on a minute. Did you say that you saved it as a JPEG and then renamed it with a .ICO extension? That could be your problem, as you must either save it natively as an ICO file, or convert it to one. To convert the image in question, visit: http://converticon.com/.
Also try adding it to your favorites/bookmarks.
How to add a background picture to your website:
/templates/base/css
common.css
body {
font-family:Verdana,Arial;
font-size:11px;
color:#333333;
background-color:#589CBC;
margin:0px;
padding:0 0 50px 0;
}
change to
body {
font-family:Verdana,Arial;
font-size:11px;
color:#333333;
background-image:url(../images/YOUR-IMG.gif );
margin:0px;
padding:0 0 50px 0;
}
Note the uploaded image should be in
/templates/base/image
You can also change the background color here by changing the color code.
How to add a picture to your header below your logo:
templates/base/_sub_header.html ...
upload your image to /templates/base/images
Add your website information along with the path to your picture file below in red.
__main_logo__
<bx_injection:injection_logo_after />
</div>
</div>
<img src="http://www.themedilounge.com/templates/base/images/colorbar.png" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 5px; height: 13px; width: 998px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display: block;">
<bx_injection:banner_top />
</div>
<bx_injection:injection_between_logo_top_menu />
<div class="sys_top_menu">
How to add a custom HTML to your promo box
<div
id="indexPhotoBorder">
<div id="indexPhotoLabel">
<div class="sys_title">Welcome to the community!</div> You can change your greeting here
<div class="sys_promo">
<div class="subMenuOvr">
<div class="sys_tm_actions">
<div class="input_wrapper input_wrapper_input_set">
<div style="margin-right: 14px;"
class="button_wrapper">
<input type="button" onclick="window.open (\'join.php\',\'_self\');"
name="join" value="Join" class="form_input_submit
bigJoinButton submit">
<div class="button_wrapper_close"> </div>
</div>
<div class="button_wrapper">
<input type="button" onclick="showPopupLoginForm(); return
false;" name="login" value="Login"
class="form_input_submit bigLoginButton submit">
<div class="button_wrapper_close"> </div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div onclick="location=\'join.php\'" id="indexPhoto"
style="overflow: hidden; position: relative;">
<img src="media/images/promo/promo_p04.jpg" style="position:
absolute; left: 0px; top:
Change promo_p04.jpg to your selected picture or logo
0px; display: block;"></div>
</div>
This change will
show the Promo image reloader to guests only, and it will not be displayed once
a user is logged in. This will allow site owners to use the Promo image rotator
to show guests what they can do on the site, and not annoy logged in members
with what they already know.
In the file: /inc/design.inc.php
Find:
function getPromoCode() {
global $site;
$sSiteUrl = BX_DOL_URL_ROOT;
if( getParam( 'enable_flash_promo' ) != 'on' )
Change to:
function getPromoCode() {
global $site;
$sSiteUrl = BX_DOL_URL_ROOT;
if(!isMember())
if( getParam( 'enable_flash_promo' ) != 'on' )
In the file: templates/base/css/index.css
- add the text in red
How to remove 'Welcome to the community Login/Join" banner plastered across the bottom of the promo.
#indexPhotoLabel {
display:none;
height:82px;
line-height:82px;
position:absolute;
bottom:0px;
width:100%;
z-index:1;
background:transparent url(../images/opSplash.png) repeat-x scroll left top;
}
