HOW-TO & F.A.Q for DnP Instant! Musicbox

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HOW-TO & F.A.Q for DnP Instant! Musicbox

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	1 - Add a link to musicbox in navigation bar of forum index. 2 - I make a category in AdminCP. When I post a song I see no category appears in the list is there something wrong? 3 - Can my members add artist ? or Album ? 4 - A permission restriction appears eventhough I'm the poster/administrator for that media. What should I do? 5 - How to delete or edit a media? 6 - How do I uninstall DnP Instant! Musicbox? 7 - My playlist button does not display correctly, it shows a long line of code ? 8 - My Admin group id is not 6 and I cannot access the Configuration editor to change it ? 9 - I receive this error while installing DnP Instant! Musicbox 10 - When I play a media , it shows "This song belongs to no category therefore it cannot be played." ?

1 - Add a link to musicbox in navigation bar of forum index.

Go to your style template
AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Your Style template to edit > Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates > navbar.

FIND :

PHP Code:


	`<if condition="$show['member']"> <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="usercp.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[user_cp]</a></td> </if>`

ADD BEFORE THAT :

PHP Code:


	`<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="music.php$session[sessionurl_q]">Instant! Musicbox</a></td>`

Change the word Instant! Musicbox to anything you'd like. Save the change.

2 - I make a category in AdminCP. When I post a song I see no category appears in the list is there something wrong?
Category Level 1 is considered as Parent Category therefore it cannot be used.
Create a sub-category under it and you are set. Currently it only supports 2 Levels of Category.

3 - Can my members add artist ? or Album ?
No. The reason is : Imagine how bad of a mess it would become if one member adds "Lady Gaga" , then another adds "ladyGaga" and his friend who also plays the forum does "Gaga lady", but a random member does not like those names and wants to do "Gaga my luv" for himself while a noob dont know wat and dont know how where he accidentally creates "Lazy haha" into the list.. The same reason applies for Album records therefore only Admin can create the artist and album. It might be a hard work but you want your musicbox looks good with working portraits and searchable information.

4 - A permission restriction appears eventhough I'm the poster/administrator for that media. What should I do?
If you happen to come across this error, it is more likely that you have this setting turned on:

PHP Code:


	`//Confirm where user comes from when a request to edit song sent. //Default is yes. If members reach permission restriction when editting a song, turn this off 'check_user_location_when_post_edit_song' => 'yes',`

and base_link in Configuration has not been changed correctly. First you would want to edit the base_link to make sure it is your forum url is correct. If the error occurs again, simply disable check_user_location_when_post_edit_song

5 - How to delete or edit a media?
At the bottom of every media's player window there are two buttons for administrator to edit and delete a media. Edit shows to poster of the media OR administrator. Delete button appears for Admin only.

6 - How do I uninstall DnP Instant! Musicbox?

Run install_dnp_musicbox.php and choose the Uninstall database option.

Proceed to delete the following files and folders

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	./forum_root/install_dnp_musicbox.php ./forum_root/music.php ./forum_root/musicajax.php ./forum_root/playlist.php ./forum_root/DnPMusicbox_Settings.php ./forum_root/admincp/dnpmusicbox_setting.php ./forum_root/includes/xml/cpnav_dnp_instantmusicbox.xml ./forum_root/music ./forum_root/tmp

Done!

7 - My playlist button does not display correctly, it shows a long line of code ?

This issue only happens to an upgrade from 1.0.2 to any later. The problem is minor, it was a change in image link. You can fix it in less than 8s

. Go to the Configuration editor, put 'music/ngheplaylist.gif' to the follow box:

8 - My Admin group id is not 6 and I cannot access the Configuration editor to change it ?

The musicbox has the built in option to define admin group. For the First time and the first time you need to do this is IF your default admin group is not 6.
Download the DnPMusicbox_Settings.php from your server, open and find

PHP Code:


	`'admin_groupid_allowed' => '6',`

Change 6 to your admin group id. Save and reupload to your server. From now on you can use the Configurations editor and never have to repeat this step again. Unless you change the admin group again .

9 - I receive this error while installing DnP Instant! Musicbox

PHP Code:


	Warning: fopen(DnPMusicbox_Settings.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/install_dnp_musicbox.php on line 179 Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/install_dnp_musicbox.php on line 180 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/install_dnp_musicbox.php on line 181 Warning: unlink(DnPMusicbox_Settingsnew.php) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in [path]/install_dnp_musicbox.php on line 182 Unable to write settings to DnPMusicbox_Settings.php forum root folder. Please verify this folder is CHMOD to 777 (writable)

If you have followed up with the two-step installtion guide you will notice a warning that says the folder where you have uploaded DnP Instant! Musicbox content to must be CHMOD to 777. That should solve the problem.

10 - When I play a media , it shows "This song belongs to no category therefore it cannot be played." ?

A media must be placed under a sub-category. If it doesn't belong to any subcategory, or its subcategory has been deleted then you will see this error. Simply create a subcategory and follow the edit link on the error message to change this media information.