Ok so a few things I'm hoping to do.

Hello,

I'm new to dolphin, but absoluetly love it.  But there are a few things I have yet to uncover.  I want to replace "Username" on the login boxes with "e-mail".  after digging a bit I saw that it was in the lang file, but there are 10349273907 instances of "Username".  I also wanted to change the profile name from the nickname to "FirstName" "lastName".  And finally I want to disable video downloads for users.  I can't seem to find this option anywhere, even after checking chmod options etc...

Thanks in advance!

Chri

I'm afraid I can't help you with the language options right now (maybe someone else will chime in), but I can solve your video downloading problems.

Go to Admin > Flash Apps > Video Player > Disable video downloading - If you have any issues, let me know.

Well that was easy, I stared at those app things for so long i think I've got tunnell vision.  Thanks!

Any advice on the other two?

P.S.  One more thing, I wanted to change stuff in the profile that is the user's from "Username" to "FirstName"  I know this might be tedious, but I'll spend the time to do it.  Just tell me which file to hack.

Thanks again.

If you go into your Admin Panel>Settings>Language Settings

In the "Look For" type Username and put a check in the apply. This only brings up a few. Click the Edit options to change the word Username to Email (take note to what you are changing).

Follow the same procedure to change any other text you may want.

Chris

Sweet!  Ok I got the email thing working now, much appreciated.  Now I was wondering how to change the profile field names from "NickName" at the top of the page to "FirstName" "LastName" and the rest of everything else to "firstName"  For example.  Instead of admin's photo's it is Chris's photos.  It doesn't seem like I can do this through hacking the lang file, is there somewhere else I need to point?

Thanks!

Chri

Each member gets a default "album" for most every module you have installed based on the username they used to sign up with (ex. videos, photos, music). If you want a different album name, then create a new one.

I would advise being EXTREMELY careful "hacking" files or else you will end up back here asking someone to fix it :)

Chris

Right that was just an example.  Blog would have been a better example I suppose.  See when you click on it, it says "NickNames" blog?  I just want that to say FirstName's blog.  Then at the head of the user's page where it says their nickname next to the avatar I want it to say "FirstName" "LastName".  Make sense, or am I a poor communicator?

Thanks

Chri

bump...

I would like also to change the NickName to a firstname.lastname type of username. I don't want people picking "assmaster" or "coochiemonster" as nicknames...I also don't want to add every single unwanted nickname to an exclusion file...

I hope you realize that switching from a nickname to a first name last name type thing is not going to fix that issue.

People will just start doing what i used to do on sites that requested First and Last names.

First Name     Last Name
Joe                Blow
Harry             Dick
Darth             Vader
Eat                Shit
Blow              Me
Carpet           Muncher


ect, ect, ect.  You get the idea. You still end up with un desirable names.

User registrations are moderated. They can't use fake names...

Deano, this is the only spot I can find with a recent reply. So I'm hoping you can help.

I have fixed it so the username is the email address.

I've modified one spot(below avatar on search) to show firstname instead of Username.

Is there a way to change the rest of the places that Username is shown? The address bar, next to the avatar on the profile page, and the blog postings are just a few that I can think of...

Thanks a ton,
Ace

the other forebearance and logic behind nickname is that nickname is unique firstname lastname is not. so you could have multiple instances of say david smith, but david smith would use the unique nickname of dasmith, unique, so therein lies the problem with wishing to use firstname lastname as any indicator of ownership of anything on the site. 

the unique keys are:

UserID

UserNickname

UserEmail

all other fields are not unique to one user such as phone number etc. 

Ok. let's take this one thing at a time...

The OP was about changing the language file on the login form to say email not username. This is the key _NickName. However if you change that key then the profile information in the admin panel shows username as Email. So this fix doesn't work 100%, 2 fields are now named Email. The next problem in the OP was changing the profile name from username to firstname lastname.

I have thought of a work around to fix both problems, but don't know how to set it up. The way I see it is, I need to fix the issue of User's full names not being unique usernames.

Is it possible to have the login process automatically assign a username to any new ID?

Something along the lines of, whenever a new user fills out the join form and hits submit, a php snip runs... $Username = $iID['FirstName'] . '_' . $iID['LastName'] . [UserID] (?) should ensure that no one ever has the same username...If the first and second people to sign up are named John Smith, their usernames would be John_Smith2 and John_Smith3...(admin is UserID 1)

Where would this code be inserted? A new php block? Would Deanos Tools or PHP Block Editor work?

I was merely pointing out that i don't think changing from nicknames to real names would solve the problem of people picking unwanted names.

I did not however state that i knew how to get dolphin to run like that. Which i do not. I have never attempted it. You will have to find all of these locations. I do not know where they all are or how to change it without taking the necessary time to find them and do them myself. Time i do not have.

 I think I have a better solution. Did you see it? Just a few posts ago.