Thread: Customizing my almost finished Dolphin site... Help!

I have a website that's almost complete in Dolphin. I need to add 2 different type of functionalities left to it but not sure how. I need someone who's VERY good at Dolphin and able to do the following:

The URL is thelbbucsd.com

1: When you create an account and sign in, you should have access to those members who "match" your profile show up inside member.php. I know Dolphin emails you your matches, but I need for at least the thumbnail and the member name to show up under member.php (I found a script that'll let you search for only your matches but it isn't the same)

2: Under Daring Pairing, I need to create a custom registration that'll let users go on blind dates. When 2 users have filled out the form they each will be emailed each other's contact information.

3: I need to restrict registration to a particular domain only, how would I do this?

Any help is appreciated, willing to pay!

Originally Posted by dveiga

1: When you create an account and sign in, you should have access to those members who "match" your profile show up inside member.php. I know Dolphin emails you your matches, but I need for at least the thumbnail and the member name to show up under member.php (I found a script that'll let you search for only your matches but it isn't the same)

Well - since "matches" are not "stored", they happen when a search is done, or so on.. so if you want to know who "matches who, for showing on a visit to their member page.

So, perhaps you would run this every day (a cron job) to update these "matches".

2: Under Daring Pairing, I need to create a custom registration that'll let users go on blind dates. When 2 users have filled out the form they each will be emailed each other's contact information.

All custom work... hard to guess on what would be involved or the time it would take.

3: I need to restrict registration to a particular domain only, how would I do this?

What do you mean? You have more than one domain in use on your site? And you want joins to only work under one of the domains? I think there is several ways to do this... none not very difficult perhaps.

Warm regards,
Smoge

So utilizing a cron job for the matches, would that allow it to be displayed on members.php or is it impossible since you have to run a search on it?

Do you know anyone who would be bale to quote me on the daring pairing stuff/

The client wants only those who have emails that belong to a particular domain to register (IE: anyone with an email from @thelbbucsd.com can register, everyone else cannot)

Originally Posted by dveiga

So utilizing a cron job for the matches, would that allow it to be displayed on members.php or is it impossible since you have to run a search on it?

Running a match percentage "real time" will be perhaps too DB intensive if you have any real number of users. So a daily cron would perhaps be best.

Do you know anyone who would be bale to quote me on the daring pairing stuff/

First, you would need full specs, not just a one or two line description. And even with that, it would be custom work - so if someone quotes you - they are perhaps being foolish (or they have a lot of free time on their hands).

The client wants only those who have emails that belong to a particular domain to register (IE: anyone with an email from @thelbbucsd.com can register, everyone else cannot)

See, you need to explain your stuff better - as before, your first request about this was totally confusing. But yea - it is a pretty easy check to do this... depends if you want to warn them on the page, or after submit, tell them to go away... or even maybe hard code it so it is

[ ]@thelbbucsd.com

and with that, sort of locks them in - as if they don't have the account - their confirmation email would not work.....

Several ways to do this -once again - all aspects should be considered and put into some specifications.

Smoge

This is what I would need for daring pairing:

I'm a member who just signed up and would like to go on a blind date (daring pairing) with someone. I click on the button, which submits my profile to the system. The matching part of this would be based on 2 requirements: my sex, and the sex that I'm looking for

The way it works is that if a female, whose looking for a male, submits her profile information and I'm already in the system pending, we'd both get an email with eachother's contact information.

That's pretty much what I would need

I dont have more than 1 domain on the website. I would like only for users from a particular email address to be able to signup. The website for my client is going to be geared towards college students, and he only wants those from his university's email to be able to signup. Wasn't sure if there was something in the settings that would enable this, or something I can add to the script (which I dont know)

Originally Posted by Smoge

What do you mean? You have more than one domain in use on your site? And you want joins to only work under one of the domains? I think there is several ways to do this... none not very difficult perhaps.

No - there is nothing in settings to do this.. you would need to code it or have someone code it where the email is checked... as I mentioned before, you could even change the page to show

[ ]@thelbbucsd.com

where they need to put their email name in the [ ] box, and this way, it would be obvious to them they need to have a thelbbucsd.com account.

As for the check, you can do that in the same place in the code the email is checked for duplicates, but add a check to make sure it is a @thelbbucsd.com email.

Smoge

Any admin panel for this - to know what was done/sent/paired? History?

How do users opt-out of this, if they change their mind?

And a one to many relationship, or only one to one?

I am just trying to help you work through thinking about the modification.

As for actually doing the modification - if you want us to do it (or any of the ones you mentioned in your posts), please open a ticket.

Smoge