Newbies First Install and Have Some Error Messages

Hi,

I installed my first Dolphin install and got the following errors at the top of the dashboard in the admin area...

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CST/-6.0/no DST' instead in /home/brenaris/public_html/locoloyalty.com/inc/classes/BxDolAdminDashboard.phpon line 89

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CST/-6.0/no DST' instead in /home/brenaris/public_html/locoloyalty.com/inc/classes/BxDolAdminDashboard.phpon line 90

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brenaris/public_html/locoloyalty.com/inc/classes/BxDolAdminDashboard.php:89) in/home/brenaris/public_html/locoloyalty.com/inc/admin_design.inc.php on line 47

I also have an error on the bottom of the home page...

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CST/-6.0/no DST' instead in/home/brenaris/public_html/locoloyalty.com/inc/classes/BxDolTemplate.php on line 782

My husband has handled the Dolphin installs in the past but is adamant in my learning the process...not a happy wife right now! HA!
Can someone point me in the right direction on how to fix these errors...THANKS! 

The date error means you need to go into your php config file and set a time zone that corresponds to your time zone.  Take care of that one first.

you just need to add date.timezone to your php.ini file.         If you can't, ask your host to do it.  If they will not do it let me know and i can do it for you.

By the way, I agree with your husband ; you can learn this stuff just as easy as anyone else can.

I just don't understand why it is if Dolphin is suppose to be so easy to use even changing simple HTML on the splash area of the home page turns into a fiasco! All I did was change Welcome to the community to Welcome to LocoLoyalty and I am now missing the buttons that were there...seriously!?

If i had to guess you removed some div tags that draw the buttons. 

here is the default code if you want to give it another go.

^{<div class="bx-splash" style="position: relative; height: 237px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 0px 0px; background-image: url('templates/base/images/bx_splash_image.jpg');">}

^{<div class="bx-splash-txt-bg" style="position: absolute; z-index: 1; bottom: 0px; width: 100%; height: 96px; background-color: #ffffff; opacity: 0.7;"><img src="templates/base/images/spacer.gif" /></div>}

^{<div class="bx-splash-txt" style="position: absolute; z-index: 2; bottom: 0px; width: 100%; height: 96px;">}

^{<div class="bx-splash-txt-cnt bx-def-margin" style="position: relative; opacity: 1.0;">}

^{<div class="bx-splash-txt-l1" style="font-size: 36px;">Welcome to the community!</div>}

^{<div class="bx-splash-txt-l2 bx-def-font-grayed" style="font-size: 14px;">This social networking site is powered by <a href="http://www.boonex.com/dolphin">Dolphin Community Software</a> from BoonEx.</div>}

^{<div class="bx-splash-action bx-def-padding-sec-topbottom" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px;"><button class="bx-btn bx-btn-primary" onclick="window.open ('join.php','_self');">Join</button> <button class="bx-btn" style="margin-left: 10px;" onclick="showPopupLoginForm(); return false;">Login</button></div>}

^</div>

^</div>

^</div>

It isn't so bad once you learn a few things about the framework; however, until you do learn, it might be frustrating at times.  What is truly frustrating is when what you want to accomplish is scattered over several different files between the module and the includes and the base template scripts.