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Ivo

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Hello BoonEx!


1)

I have long time problem with swapped "male" "famale" choices during creating member's account.

For example if a Female member choose "I am looking for Male"  - at the end result is "I am looking for Female!" (Female is looking for Female?). It looks weird form member's point of view, and is disappointing that is happening...This is simple thing. Your Support Team tried to resolve this, I saw it, but I did not see they succeeded, nor I got confirmation that problem is resolved. Nobody will visit such a site as is mine now, no matter how noble cause I am pursuing...(same as Unity).

Myself, I don't know where to look and to  how to resolve this.

2)

After upgrade from Dolphin 6.1 to 6.4 I lost also former Orca "Forum" with  about 20 topics that could be moved up-down (which actually didn't work either...). Now I have instead of Orca Forum, some old test "Groups" I want to get rid of and delete but cannot. Nobody wants to help me.

I paid Licences for both Dolphin and Orca...

3)

I also asked your Tech support to give me EXACT PATH TO EXACT FOLDER where I can put my OWN META TAGS and MY SCRIPTS for Home-Page.

I got superficial, unclear answer. Asked them to clarify...nobody is answering...


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Every BIG THING start with a lot of small thing and I  hope you'll agree with that....

As L.N. Tolstoy said: "Everyone's thinking about changing the World. Nobody thinks about changing himself, first..."

Regards,

Ivo

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theGhost
theGhost 148 days agocomment permalink
 
It is NOT a mandatory field which always leaves the possibilty for default inputs. To fix this log into Admin --> Builders --> Form Builders --> Join Form and select the "looking for" block. Click on it and in the advanced properties make it "mandatory" with a nice little field explanation. Or you could remove it all together :)

Hope this helps.
 
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LeonidS
LeonidS 148 days agocomment permalink
 
Hello Ivo!

1) This problem is in process.

2) As you've got in answer of Support you should restore all tables from your DB backup with prefixes `grp_` and `pre_` and paste it back to your Dolphin DB. If you didn't make before your upgrade then we can't help to restore it.

3) This is quote from support - 7) You can paste meta tags directly of template html files in templates/tmpl_uni folder.

Details - most of files there like page_1.html is template files for corresponding php file (index.php uses page_1.html).

How exact template page can be defined for exact php file:

1) Open php (for example viewMusic.php) file in editor.

2) Find there string like $_page['name_index'] = 81;

81 - this i number of template files.

So if you want to add something to viewMusic page then you can edit template file templates/tmpl_uni/page_81.html.

Regards
 
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Ivo
Ivo 146 days agocomment permalink
 
Thank you Leonid, your help is much appreciated!

2)

I am not sure if I have database backup, have to check with my hosting provider this.

If there's not a database backup, is there any other way to get BRAND NEW Orca Forum as it was before upgrade (I can modify it later?)


3)

Regarding Meta Tags, your answer now is very clear and detailed, contrary to what I have received directly form Tech Support (don't blame anyone, though - it is vacation season, and you have loads of questions I suppose).

However, I want to put in here what you did not say directly to me, but to another member with similar Meta Tags problem/question, because I think it is good to have everythiong explained at one place and for people interested in the same thing to read.

You said to him exactly the following:

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You can paste meta tags directly to all template page html files in templates/tmpl_uni/ folder. But don't forget to delete next 2 lines in templates/base/_header.html file

<meta name="description" content="__meta_description__" />
<meta name="keywords" content="__meta_keywords__" />

******************************************************

Hope it will be helpful for folks interested in similar stuff to read.

Ivo.
 
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Ivo
Ivo 146 days agocomment permalink
 
One more thing is still left unanswered:

What about my own SCRIPTS? How and where to put it so they will WORK??

I tried for example to put one small Java Script (for testing purposes) into Introductory Field on the Home page (via Admin Panel / Basic Settings). When I saved it - Dolphin did not accepted it!

Not only Java Script, but whole intro text and all Field were destroyed! There were left just one small chunk of java Script, not useful.

Hopefully, I had a backup of that field and restored everything.

I saw at one boonie website: ("http://www.onlinechat.net") how they wisely put advertisements not only at the Home Page , but at EVERY PAGE and nicely wrapped them ito SEPARATE FIELD, named "Advertisement".

I 'd like to do the same but I don't know how?

I am very interested into - how to make my own Fields and put in there my own Scripts so that THEY WILL WORK, instead of being destroyed!


Please help.



Thank you!

Ivo.
 
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visualwave
visualwave 1 day agocomment permalink
 
before doing any upgrade of any part of your system, it is really helpful to BACK UP EVERYTHING. the datbase all the files the whole shebang. and do it often. if you are on a unix system you can write cron jobs and scripts to do that for you. you can install lftp and write a one line script to pull the entire site over to a mirror site and set up datbase replication.

with any product like this you have to assume some responsibility for system administration.

I am new to dolphin actually and I had install issues but one searches the code and everything I found pretty easily. even unix packages can and do have problems. php configuring for instance.

I also suggest if you are on unix and you admin the server that you get a linux or unix admin book and learn some of the basics.

also you can write exttenions to dolphin and I reccomend getting a Zend studio license so you can install a debugger on the server and you can then walk through the code set break points etc. it helps alot in finding problems or writing customizations.

I am not trying to flame any one here, but just sharing my experiences and these suggestions have saved my kester several times.
 
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