Can remove the dating section from Dolphin?

Hi is it possible to remove the dating section from dolphin, I was hoping to establish a social media site without having pervy old men pestering every female within the membership. Any suggestions for this would be appreciated thanks

I second that suggestion!  It's especially a problem in the profile settings where almost all the information filled in is about what you're looking for in a date, etc.   I am trying to launch a community/social site, but I am having to do so many changes and deletions of settings that I'm wondering if it's all worth the trouble.  I hope if they do change this that they have a fix for those of us who already have Dolphin 7.

hi

it would be useful to have a list of what you do not want on your site

daniel

I agree Art4Peace, not everyone on the internet is looking for a relationship, I was hoping there would be a response by now as I would happily purchase a full licence but I want a members only area for people with a common interest  

As stated before, you need to tell us what you want to remove *specifically* from your site. And you can probably find most of what you are looking for on the forums. We've disabled couples, greetings, and a few other things as well since we're not a dating site, either. And we found out how to do those things by searching!

But each site is different, so you're going to have to say specifically what you want to remove since there is no module called "dating section."

Personaly I think that the dating stuff should remain in dolphin, I think this sets it apart.

If I wanted to be the next facebook then that is one thing I would have over thier site, however I do belive that the coders of dolphin should code it so that if required, as an admin you can disable that feature, I also belive that this should be the case for the tags feature aswel.

They could maybe code them in as Modules, instead of them being hard coded into dolphin

Have you considered tweaking the site join form?

http://www.yoursite.com/administration/fields.php

• remove the fields you don't want - make sure not to remove the "mandatory ones" i.e. "Sex", if you want to remove something like that you need to open the box, second tab "Advanced" un tick "Mandatory"
• click on the "Edit Profile" tab top right and remove the "dating" questions.
• drag the unwanted "info" boxed to the unused section below
• do this for all forms you have there

Go to the Settings>Advanced Setting deselect - 

1. Profiles tab

• Global Enabling of Couples - off
• Enable profile votes - off

2. Matches tab

• Enable matchmaking - off
• Enable view match percent for profiles - off

Remove modules that are not needed by your site.

nay27uk -  I read it as asking to remove the dating features from their install of dolphin, not from the entirety of dolphin's base code.

And I completely agree that it would be great if the dating site features were more easily controlled from the Admin panel!

newton - Great suggestions on turning off some of the features.

In addition, we found these forum posts helpful in removing some of the other things that gave the installation a dating site vibe:

• Remove Greetings entirely: http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Remove-Greetings-completely.htm
• Remove sex symbols next to pictures, remove sex & age in chat, remove Hot List & Hot List requests : http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Coding-modes-for-the-Dolphin-Newbie.htm
• Remove "Looking For": http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/How-to-remove-looking-for-man-woman.htm

 just to clear this up, you would never achieve this with dolphin. just so you dont have any false ideas. 

1. dolphin cant handle it

2. most likely your finances cant handle it

3. most are not prepared for such a venture in most cases

i see these mentions all the time, and i personally refuse to work on a site where they mention 'facebook', linkedIn, twitter. 

every one of those cost massive amounts of money to operate a month. the fact that one would be on the net, searching for free open source social networking applications is a good indicator, that such a venture would be outside the realm of common sense. 

 DosDawg, Why you got to rain on all our parades? lol :(

None of my sites are dating sites. The one thing I was able to do easily from within  Dolphin was completely shut down all the dating related processes. It can be done completely from within the admin screen.

Ok DosDawg.

My question to you Is WHY could someone not replace facebook with a dolphin powered site?

If statistics are  true then facebook are loosing hundreds of thousands of members daily surley  this is paving the way for a new facebook.

With the features in dolphin one single install of dolphin with a good Dedicated server and good dedicated SQL server would replace in one site only, the likes of Facebook, Youtube, Flickr ect ect, because dolphin has what those sites have but all in one script.

WHY CANT DOLPHIN TAKE IT?

the above mentioned sites all use the PHP coding platform so whats so different about dolphin if they are all coded in PHP then why would facebook be able to handle it when dolphin could not, surley PHP is PHP

I am just curious as to why you would say that dolphin could not handle it, do you know somthing about the dolphin coding that we dont 

Well Facebook become so popular because they were first in that type of web application. Many people tried get over facebook nobody had a success ..even googleis is still behind. And facebook dont sleep - as their last announcement was they will add many new features. If you guys think you gonna make second facebook you are quite naive. DOlphin is good start to make local country site specialised to certain group of people like swingers dating, your town horse racing fans, local football fans etc.... but with all respect you will never achieve such a thing as facebook or even close unless u have on your account few millions dollars to spend on ads,programmers stc. Facebook and google have billion dollars budgets and thousands of employees which ordinary people like most of us cant fight with.If somebody is backed by millions dollars on account than for sure will make own platform and not use opensource as those people will want their site to be unique and not hundereds similar sites around..

@nay27uk

simply put my friend. if dolphin could challenge facebook, why would andrew boon and team not approach that avenue, instead of selling the scirpt? you dont see facebooks script for sale, why, because its proprietary. granted php is php, ajax is ajax, jquery is jquery, however, its all in the coding conventions, meaning how its all written. 

so if dolphin was a challenge, or could remotely attempt to challenge facebook, then riddle me this, why would it not have been done by the developers? 

my answer: its not possible, nor feasible. 

dolphin is good for localized niched environments. its not written properly to scale. you would need a total rewrite of the script to get it to scale out. 

the fact that you mention one dedicated server tells me  you have no true understanding of what you are even asking here. you need a 'dedicated network' not a dedicated server. 

i watched a startup some time back called blastoff network. they spent millions on marketing, hyped up the application for months. the day of launch they fell flat on their face. they had millions in hardware, but were not prepared for what took place. though setup on redundancy and other network implementations in place, hardware failure on load balancers and routers caused the entire network to fail. 

and in mentioning this, they lost huge revenue from financial backers because of that failure. so when you mention dolphin, you should leave certain terms out of your vocabulary i.e. facebook, twitter, LinkedIn. create your own community, focus on what your schema is and understand how to perfect that. 

dolphin could never be a facebook, that is plain and simple. 

do you know that facebook in its infancy, brought down the entire universities network. and that was from use with just the college kids. do you think the university only had one dedicated server? i am not fully aware of what system the university was using, but i can express from historical experience, most universities have a tremendous backend. but we are not here to discuss that network failure either. only to bring awareness ot the fact that it was in fact a 'network' of computers, and not one or two servers. 

have you not thought about why boonex.com does not even use the dolphin platform? i think about that every single day. if dolphin could handle 100K users, though we never see 100K users on boonex.com/unity, but if dolphin were the better platform, and optimal for a large community, why would boonex not use dolphin as their platform? 

Ha ha all very good points and the point is taken.

Thanks for taking the time to point it all out for me and answer my questions, It's all very interesting

DosDawg is absolutely correct i his assessement.

I am trying out my site, not because I wish to compete or even try to be like facebook, but I want to see how successful it can become. Using Dolphin as a stepping stone.

If it works and generates some income, then we go from there. if not, then we try something else.

Keep trying.

 I've been thinking the same thing! It's too funny!

Hi everyone, I think I have hidden all the dating elements from my site now and managed it through the Admin panel. Thanks for your replies and points of direction, it's good to know someone always knows more than me  

I must say, it has turned into an interesting discussion about Dolphin verses Facebook. I agree that Dolphin is way behind Facebook in certain areas but in time and testing, which is what we are doing after all, I think Facebook will be come a dinosaur and follow that same fate. 

I am personally cancelling my Facebook account in another six days, (the count down is on) and have notified my friends due to the arrogant (swearwords and abuse throwing) that own and run it. They are so far up their own proverbial's they think that they can invade personal space and introduce malware, under another guise and no person on the face of the earth can stop them! 

I know I cant change that on my own but I'm sure as hell not going to allow Facebook to track my movements even when I am not logged in to their website! it's a shame that people become so enveloped in a fad that they will roll over and allow themselves to get trampled on

If everyone expressed their opinion and showed the management at Facebook that they can not do that, by cancelling their accounts, then and only then will they be brought back down to earth.

I apologise, rant over now, cancel Facebook Use Dolphin