Dolphin 7

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  Not ready for public use...

  Rating: 1 - Poor
  Reviewed by Norman Pemper on May 25th, 2010

  The core program is indeed free. You have to pay to remove their link and banner at the bottom, but it isn't that expensive. The problem is with the support and the program itself. There is no support. You pick an "agent" to work with, but they are spotty at best and sometimes they just send you to programmers who will charge you. http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/DolphinDocs - NO useful documentation. There is a user forum, but mostly you'll see people who are asking questions about why things are broken and no one helping. A quote from their site: "The BoonEx team is focusing on development, and generally we don't provide technical support" Imagine a program that has NO support. You have to figure everything out on your own. And it isn't built using any standards. Imagine a program that actively has people who charge you for bug-fixes??? How bad is that? And they have private individuals fixing things that the development team is too lazy to do. And then there are the bugs... wow... He is one users take on them: http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Boonex_Trac_Submit_a_Defect_Is_this_a_Defect_or_is_this_an_Enhancement Mods are moderately priced, but so many of them should be in the core program it is rather sickening. So the "free" aspect is pretty misleading. So you owe it to yourself to spend a few days reading the blogs on the site and the forums before you choose this software. I'm into now for more than $650 and a month of development. And I still have a bug list of at least 10 things which people are unable/unwilling to address. Had I known that the program was this much of a mess I would've chosen something else... This review is for 7.0.x. There is a previous version of the software 6.1.6 that had promise but was dropped in favor of 7. Features of 6 were not even implement in 7. Mr Powless below is a nice guy but he makes some assumptions that I "broke" things. Which I did not. Of course, he is hired by people to fix things on this script. So, of course, he has a motivation to make it sound awesome. But don't take my words for it. Go to the forum.

  Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

• Good program but

  Rating: 3 - Average
  Reviewed by GregK on Dec 18th, 2011

  I only give this an average rating due to the problems it's giving me with having to have register_globals turned off or it won't run. This is the only program I'm using that requires this and it's giving both me and my web host fits. Unless this can be easily resolved I'll move on to something else, even though I had purchased this software some years ago.

  Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

• The best code out there

  Rating: 5 - Excellent
  Reviewed by darren powless on Mar 20th, 2010

  mrpowless here ... i have been using this for a few years and you cannot get a better bang for your buck....design houses can pick this up and modify it to any member based site they need. Pepper is completely lost! dont listen to this man because he has just been though it for a couple hours and probably wanted to "change" things himself...broke it and tried to get support. The sites work perfect out of the box and do not need any "bug fixes" unless you start to try and change code yourself. These are the people he speaks of not the over 300,000 other sites out there that use it and you dont even know it!/

• it doesn't get better than free

  Rating: 5 - Excellent
  Reviewed by on Feb 18th, 2010

  I just wanted to say I have wasted some much money on dating scripts that I find do not function properly or the support just isn't there. Dolphin 7 allows me to install this script and alter it the way I need before I take out their advertising and for such a small price to do that as well! I am glad I finally found a script I can work on without the outlay.