Invite Friend -> Registration by Invitation Only

I am currently setting up my first Dolphin CMS, and I am having trouble figuring out how to make the site invite only and have the invited people be able to register.

I have Registration by invitation only checked in the Admin Advanced Settings Page, but when I invite myself to join, I get "Registration by Invitation only". How do I invite friends to join without allowing anyone to join?

I'm not sure of the answer, but maybe try cleaning your cookies since you're inviting yourself, maybe thats way you think it's not working..Hope this helps..

I think "registration by invitation only" is intrepreted by Dolphin to mean that only registered members can use the "invite a friend" link, and that is required to register.  Did you try that yet?

Thank you for your response, I tried clearing my cookies and using a different browser, but I am still getting the same results, any other ideas?

Caltrade: That is the process I am using, I am quite confused =)

Try enabling the affilaite support. Then as Caltrade stated then regiestered members may invite people to join

Needed to clear my cache, after enabling affiliate support =)

I've done everything y'all have advised, here, but I still get a page with "registration by invitation only" on it when I try to use an affiliate url created by a new affiliate member.

I created a 2nd account then signed up as an affiliate then used the affiliate link assigned to it like this http://lovencherish.com/?idAff=2 but I still get the same page with these words on it when I click on the Join link on the top right side of the page.

I cleared my browser cache, deleted all of my browser cookies & deleted the cache files the script creates in the cache folder on the server but still the same thing.

I tried it in both I.E. & FireFox but the same thing in both.

Reckon I should try it on another computer other than the one I'm using to build the site?

This is the only thing I haven't tried yet seeing as I only have one computer here.

Is there a setting that I need to find that controls how the cookies are set on the browser when someone visits through an affiliate link?

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated!

Shalom,

Calev

{Edited on 5/28/09 @ 01:44am cdt}

Well... Whether this is how your supposed to do it or not it worked, so far.

What I did was I went back into my admin area to the "Advanced Settings" area & I un-check marked the one that says: "Registration by invitation only (need before Enable affiliate support)" then I tried to access it by way of the affiliate link & was able to signup a new account & the affiliate account whom the url was associated with got the credit.

Only thing is tho when I click on the affiliate number to the right of the member's name under the heading "Memb" in the back office I get an sql error message.

Here it is:

========================

Array
(
    [1] => Array
        (
            [file] => /home/I deleted this/public_html/admin/profiles.php
            [line] => 280
            [function] => db_res
            [args] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 
	SELECT
		`Profiles`.`ID` as `ID`, 
		`NickName`,
		`Email`,
		`Sex`,
		DATE_FORMAT(`DateLastLogin`,  '%m-%d-%y %H:%i' ) AS `DateLastLoginCur`,
		DATE_FORMAT(`DateReg`,  '%m-%d-%y %H:%i' ) AS `DateReg`,
		`Status`
		, `IDLevel`, IF(ISNULL(`MemLevels`.`Name`),'', `MemLevels`.`Name`) AS `MemName`
	FROM `Profiles`
		,aff_members 

		LEFT JOIN `ProfileMemLevels` ON `ProfileMemLevels`.`IDMember` = `Profiles`.`ID` 
				  LEFT JOIN `MemLevels` ON `ProfileMemLevels`.`IDLevel` = `MemLevels`.`ID` 
	WHERE
		1   AND `idAff` = 'a number' AND `idProfile` = `Profiles`.`ID`    AND (`Couple`=0 OR `Couple`>`Profiles`.`ID`)
	GROUP BY `Profiles`.`ID`
	ORDER BY DateLastLogin 
	LIMIT 0, 30

                )

        )

)

Array
(
    [showAffMembers] => a number
    [sortor] => DateLastLogin
    [idAff] => a number
    [strSec] => I deleted this
    [memberID] => a number
    [memberPassword] => I deleted this
    [_fjvid1] => I deleted this
    [adminID] => I'm not tellin ya
    [adminPassword] => I deleted this

Any Ideas about what could be causing this error?

It does the same thing when I click on the other affiliates link for members signed up through their affiliate url's, too.

This is in the admin area not in the affiliate admin.

Shalom,

Calev