I suggest you take up Leonid's suggestion Methen. A Manual for Dolphin is never going to happen because Dolphin only has a year or so left before it and this forum are likely to go into the history books. Dolphin is one of the most complex and most powerful Social Networking scripts written and a basic manual would fill several hundred pages. Make that several thousand if lots and lots of pictures were to be added. Who on earth would write such a manual when this forum barely attracts a post a week, comp

Hello Methen!   I guess it is still the best variant to learn Dolphin:   https://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki

I just wanted to follow-up and report that the instructions provided below did work for me.   My error was not that I had tried to replace the text with a link. My error was that I had included the '&' symbol in my replacement text.   Thank you Deano and Leonid for your help.     Access denied. You must have special permissions to access this area or you are not logged in. That specific error messa

Well I checked out  www.socialsoftware.wiki do not feel that it will work for me not going to go into details, All I want is is detailed hard copy manual that shows you how to do everything there is to do with lots and lots of easy to see detailed pictures

I followed the folder path in the error log: /modules/boonex/forum/layout/base_en/xsl/default_access_denied.xsl   and saw that my new language edit remained in that file and so I reverted it back to the original text:  'Access denied. You must have special permissions to access this area or you are not logged in.' And the forum is working now.   My language edit may not have worked because I attempted to put a http link in the text for members to click on. Maybe if I had put p

Hi, I tried the instructions below but my forum now goes to a blank screen. I reversed the steps and cleared the caches but I still have a blanks screen when I click on the forum link (even if I try to access via the admin panel). How could changing the language have such a impact to break the forum?     Access denied. You must have special permissions to access this area or you are not logged in. That specific error message is p

  Access denied. You must have special permissions to access this area or you are not logged in. That specific error message is part of the forum language files. It is found in modules/boonex/forum/integrations/base/langs/en.phpYou change it in that file, then you need to recompile the forum languages by logging in as admin go to Forum then choose Manage Forum then click on Compile Language:en

Thank you Leonid but neither of those language strings work and I can't find by keyword 'denied' or 'permissions'. I get the error message when trying to access forum when not logged in and want to change the message. When I inspect code I see this but can't find where to change it.   <div id="orca_main"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="forum_error_msg"> Access denied. You must have special permissions to access this area or you are not logged in.

Hello callum!   It seems you need to check the _Access denied and _bx_pageac_deny_text lang keys. If it will not help then plz provide us the URL where you met those messages.

 I'm unable to edit this via the language string. Does anyone know where I can edit this? Thank you.     I'm trying to edit the scary red 'Access denied. You must have special permissions to access this area or you are not logged in.'message non members get.   I can't find it in language settings?