General Dolphin FAQ

​How do I edit the web pages About Us, Contact Us, Privacy, Terms, FAQ?

​How do I edit the Copyright © 2008 Your Company wording at the bottom?

​I need to transfer my site to another folder/server. What do I need to do?

​How can I replace Free package with Ad-Free package (and vice versa) without losing my customization?

​How can I manage affiliates?

​How can I translate my site into a different language?

​How can I manage my banners?

​My security image doesn't show up. So no one can join my site.

​I get this error message throughout my site: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_internal_encoding

How do I edit the web pages About Us, Contact Us, Privacy, Terms, FAQ?

The titles and the contents of these pages can be edited in the language file:

Admin Panel -> Settings -> Language Settings -> Search for strings -> Look for here you should search for the corresponding language key and change its value:

• About Us:
  _ABOUT_US_H: About Us Page Title
  _ABOUT_US_H1: About Us Box Title
  _ABOUT_US: About Us Box Contents
  

• Contact Us:
  _CONTACT_H: Contact Us Page Title
  _CONTACT_H1: Contact Us Box Title
  Note: Contact Us Box Contents can be changed in the file contact.php:

  function PageCompPageMainCodeWithForm()
  

• Privacy:
  _PRIVACY_H: Privacy Page Title
  _PRIVACY_H1: Privacy Box Title
  _PRIVACY: Privacy Box Contents
  

• Terms:
  _TERMS_OF_USE_H: Terms Page Title
  _TERMS_OF_USE_H1: Terms Box Title
  _TERMS_OF_USE: Terms Box Contents
  

• FAQ:
  _FAQ_H: FAQ Page Title
  _FAQ_H1: FAQ Box Title
  _FAQ_INFO: FAQ Box COntents
  

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How do I edit the Copyright © 2008 Your Company wording at the bottom?

This wording can be edited in the language file:

Admin Panel -> Settings -> Language Settings -> Search for strings -> Look for here you should search for the corresponding language key _copyright and change its value

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I need to transfer my site to another folder/server. What do I need to do?

1) First of all, you need to back up your folders and files and your database tables. It usually results in creation of two archives (.tgz or .zip) which you will have to unpack on your new server/folder; besides, the database tables will have to be imported in your new database.

2) Dolphin 6 has several files which must be changed after transferring to another folder or server:

• inc/header.inc.php change the values of the following variables according to your current settings:

$site['url'] and $dir['root']

and all the elements of $db array (it's not usually needed if you just move your site to another folder on the same server)

• cmd.php, notifies.php, tags.php files in periodic folder. All of them have lines as follows:

  require_once( '[path_to]/inc/header.inc.php' );
  

where [path_to] must be changed according to the current path to Dolphin folder

• ray/modules/global/inc/header.inc.php

edit the line

include("[path_to]/inc/header.inc.php");

the same way as described above

• ray/modules/global/js/integration.js

change the value of the variable sRayUrl according to your current URL.

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How can I replace Free Dolphin package with Ad-Free one (and vice versa) without losing my customization?

The only difference between Free and Ad-Free Dolphin packages are Ray widgets. So you can just replace the Free widgets with the Ad-Free ones.

You can do it this way:

1) replace the ray folder in the Free Dolphin package you currently have with that from the Ad-Free package

2) set the following permissions:

chmod 777 ./ray/modules/board/files/ ./ray/modules/im/files/ ./ray/modules/mp3/files/ ./ray/modules/movie/files ./ray/modules/music/files

chmod 666 ./ray/modules/global/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/global/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/board/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/board/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/board/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/board/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/chat/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/chat/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/chat/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/chat/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/im/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/im/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/im/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/im/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/presence/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/presence/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/presence/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/presence/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/video/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/video/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/video/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/video/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/mp3/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/mp3/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/mp3/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/mp3/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/movie/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/movie/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/movie/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/movie/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/music/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/music/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/music/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/music/xml/skins.xml

chmod 666 ./ray/modules/desktop/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/desktop/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/desktop/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/desktop/xml/skins.xml

chmod 777 ray/modules/global/app/ffmpeg.exe

3) edit ray/modules/global/inc/header.inc.php and replace [path_to] with the full server path to your Dolphin directory with the trailing slash, for example: /home/dolphin/public_html/

4) edit ray/modules/global/js/integration.js and replace the [url_to_ray] with the full URL to Ray folder with the trailing slash, for example: ​http://mysite.com/ray/.

5) Enter your Admin Panel and register the Ad-Free widgets in Plugins -> Ray Suite.

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How can I manage affiliates?

The Affiliate support must first be enabled by navigating to Admin Panel -> Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Enable affiliate support

Now navigate to Admin Panel -> Users -> Affiliates

Manage Affiliates

On this page you can manage the list of your affiliates by adding and deleting them.

Affiliates can be added in two ways:

• The administrator can manually add all information about a new affiliate;
• A future affiliate can enter this information by creating affiliate profiles on ​http://www.yoursite.com/join_aff.php

After being added the affiliate will be assigned an ID. Then he/she should place a link to your site with this ID. Example: ​http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?idAff=25.

A visitor who has joined your site through this link is automatically assigned to this affiliate and the affiliate will receive a share of all transactions that the visitor initiates (specified in the Percent field).

An affiliate can view his/her statement (list of profiles that are assigned to this affiliate and financial information) by logging in through the following page ​http://www.yoursite.com/aff/

The admin can also view financial statements of each affiliate by clicking the wording fin on the right side of the Manage Affiliates table.

The Affiliate -> My Link section inside an Affiliate Profile will display the link that an affiliate should place at his/her site.

Members as Affiliates

You can give incentives to people that are active members of your community site. This feature is based on Invite a friend module of our script. Members invite their friends using tellfriend.php window (Invite a friend link at the top of the pages). When the invited people registere at the site with the same e-mail they were invited at, they become referrals of the person who invited them.

Admin can set a certain number of invited and registered members (Number of Members) that must be invited before the referrants get eligible to change their membership levels.

The Admin can choose what membership privileges to give to referrants (Memberhip Type) and for how long this privilege should last (Number of Days).

AFF Approved banners

The Admin can insert images for affiliate banners. Affiliates will be able to view them and choose the suitable one for them.

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How can I translate my site into a different language?

Follow these steps

1. Log into Dolphin's Admin Panel
2. Click Settings -> Language Settings
3. Fill in the name of your New language in the New Language field of the Language File
4. In the Copy from field choose an existing language to copy the language strings from, for example English
5. In the Flag field choose your desired flag for the language you're creating
6. Click Create

This will result with the message * language has been successfully created.
Now you have to compile the language file (write it langs/lang-*.php)

8. In the Language area click Compile next to the language name

This will result with the message * language has been successfully compiled.

9. Open your FTP program
10. Go to your Dolphin directory
11. FTP your new language file from the langs directory on your local computer. The name of the file will look like lang-*.php
12. Open it in a txt editor which supports UTF-8 encoding
13. Make the changes and save it in UTF-8 format.
14. FTP it back (upload) to the lang directory!

Now you need to import your new language strings into the database. Here you can use the following tweak:
​http://www.expertzzz.com/Downloadz/view/2390[[BR]] Just download it and follow the instructions in the readme.txt file.

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How can I manage my banners?

Log into your Admin Panel and navigate to Tools -> Banners

On the top of the Banners Panel there is a list of your banners. Each banner in the list has the following controling buttons: Preview, Modify, and Delete.

Preview lets you see the banner as it will look on your site. Modify option lets you change the banner settings. They are stated further. Delete this deletes a banner.

Besides this, every line displays banner statistics, such as number of impressions (views) and number of clicks.

A new banner can be added by using a form at the bottom of the Banners panel. The settings are the same as when you're modifying a banner. Here they are:

1) Banner title - this can be any name you want to assign to your banner. This name won't be shown to members.

2) Banner URL - here you need to specify the link where your banner points to, for example http://www.boonex.com.

3) Banner Active - this checkbox should be checked if you wish to display your banner and unchecked if you want to hide the banner.

4) Banner Text (HTML Only) - this must be the code generating your banner, should it be a picture, a text or an object. For example, the following code will show a BoonEx banner on your site:

<img src="http://www.boonex.com/img/boonex_cse2.gif" />

5) Start Date and End Date are the starting and ending periods of your banner's impression. You can use the Choose and Clear buttons to insert a date and delete it respectively.

6) Position on the page has four checkboxes Top, Left, Bottom and Right to display the banner in the respective areas of your site.

7) HShift and VShift let you specify for what number of pixels you want to shift your Left or Right banners Horizontally or Vertically respectively.

8) Submit button allows you to submit your changes and the Insert as new checkbox lets you submit the modified banner as a new one.

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My security image doesn't show up. So no one can join my site.

This may be caused by a few reasons: 1) You either don't have GD library or ImageMagick installed.

2) If you still have GD library installed it may be not compiled with TrueType fonts.

3) Another reason for this problem may be unchecked Use GD library for image processing in Settings -> Advanced Settings.

4) And at last, if you're using ImageMagick, not GD library, you may have incorrect paths to its applications in inc/header.inc.php. In this case you should check the paths to $MOGRIFY, $CONVERT and $COMPOSITE.

If all this doesn't help, you can just disable security image in Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Enable security image on join page.

I get this error message throughout my site: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_internal_encoding

The default PHP installation does not always have the mb_string extension enabled, but the program requires that you run the PHP multibyte-string extension which is not enabled by default. In brief, in order to do this you will need to (in Windows):

• uncomment out the line

  extension=php_mbstring.dll
  

in the php.ini file

• ensure that the path to this file is set correctly, again in php.ini, for example:

  extension_dir = "./ext"
  

• Note that you can ensure that this file is correctly loaded by setting in php.ini:

  display_errors = on
  

• Restart your webserver, e.g. restart Apache
• You can check via phpinfo() that mbstring appears within the information page
• Here's how to do it in UNIX-based systems: ​http://php.net/mb_string