Hi all,
Have been working with Dolphin for about a week now, making good progress in some areas, not so good in others.
First, problems I have...
Running site in open mode so can test all functions. If I try to upload a video, or music file, file seems to upload, says approved, and then gives a ' alert - uploading file error '. Pictures upload fine, avatars upload, but then goes to page can not be displayed, but it did upload fine. Currently running without ray, with ray at boonex, same error. Any ideas?
Next, I wanted to remove birthdate from join forum, did so via the fields editor, then when someone tries to join, just gives a database error when saving, just the same as submitting a bad birthdate. So had to add birthdate back to join or your can not save the database. Guess is passing a null value to the date field, and then runs home to mamma with an error? Seems to be a no no on removing birthdate from join forum. BTW, date is not in correct order for USA, even though that was specified, and the order looks correct in the admin concerning date formats.
Observations so far....
Many seem to have problems with widgets unregistering. From what I have seen, if you enter your site name as www.yoursitename.com under base settings, the widgets stay registered just fine, otherwise they unregister the first time you try using the widget. That seems to be the fix that dozens of people seem to be having problems with.
Ray local installation seems to be more of a black art and luck than science. Sammy seems to have it figured out, and will follow her directions and tips again. Will have a go again tomorrow, but not hopeful. Can one use say a 0.7 install of red5 in place of ray, or are there too many custom hooks? may try moving to its own server instead of being on the web server.
Permalinks and .htaccess with rewrites in at least 'my opinion' are a very very bad idea and should go away in future releases. If you have a site with even moderate traffic and membership, your server will bury itself in user folders, posts and such until your server basically goes down in flames. Pretty silly to do this, when all data is quickly available from your database. Yes, great for spidering, but so are sitemaps that should replace this archaic method of getting listed on the search engines. Developing a sitemap routine for listing dynamic content could be coded in a day or two, and not bury the site in useless clutter. I wrote a run on demand sitemap generator for an ecommerce site recently that has many dynamic pages for items and categories, and took the site from having 11 pages indexed on google to almost 3000 indexed pages in less than a month.
Any sql querries with joins should be rewritten using multiple recordsets and recursive routines to step through the data using the aditional recordsets to lookup the remaining external data, and many of the current routines would speed up anywhere from 10 to 100x. In my experience, almost any joins on large tables just is too high of a metric, and executes much too slowly. Most simple lookups that dolphin does should be almost instant.
Sorry to ramble so much, have been working on this too many hours in the last week seeking answers. Anyone have any ideas on the above problems, or comments/flames on permalinks and joins, fire away.
Thanks for your consideration,
yomamma
