We have seen quite a few reports for Orca. We noted them all and worked on Orca mostly to improve situation with two major aspects - XSLT and encodings. Now, Orca is can be run with Server-side XSLT or client-side XSLT; and now it supports UTF-8 chars correctly.
We plan to test and release stable version of Orca shorlty and include it into Dolphin 6.0.0003 patch release, so please test it and let us know your results. In your comemnts, pelase make sure to let us know your browser and language settings.
Download here - http://get.boonex.com/Orca-1.2.Beta3
Server-side XSLT demo - http://www.demozzz.com/orca/beta/?xsl_mode=server
Good when your host supports XSLT properly, so your visitors never experince any problems, no matter which browser they use.
Client-side XSLT demo - http://www.demozzz.com/orca/beta/?xsl_mode=client
Less burden to your host, no XSLT support requirement, but expect only visitors with “this century” browsers be happy with your forums 
IMPORTANT:
Set default encoding for your Orca database to ‘utf8_unicode_ci’ before running Orca install.
Use ’server mode’ if your server has XSL support in php.
Use ‘client mode’ if you have not XSL support in php
You can switch between modes by adding ‘?xsl_mode=client’ or ‘?xsl_mode=server’ string to your Orca url
or you can permanently switch to the one or another mode by editing inc/header.inc.php file and change this line :
$gConf[’xsl_mode’] = ’server’; // client, server
change ’server’ to ‘client’ to enable client side XSL transformation.
Enjoy!
Make Meaning Or Die
Sweet, I can finally use Orca now, before I would get a XSLT transform error, would their be a quick way to check in cPanel if XSL is supported?
Orca Suggestion Maybe:
I didn’t install the beta but I did try out the demo and the first thing that comes to mind is that the options to “Flag”, “Post Reply” and “New Topic” are visibile to visitors. When clicked of course, Orca responds with “Access denied. You must have special permissions to access this area or you are not logged in.” screen. For simplicity, visitors should just see a normal join or log-in instead of the button options. The options should only be visible to member levels that are set through dolphin.
I appreciate that something is being with Orca which in my opinion is the weak link of the package.
Thanks for any effort to improve it. I’ll check out the demo and see if I can consider downloading it as part of the next patch.
@nuccca
we’ll add that check to the install script.
@jaxheat
Agreed. Added to DevZone.
ohhhhhhhhh tanx guys finally it support Amharic language but i got some problem i cant write title i got this error message “it Please enter valid characters from 5 to 50 symbols”
Yessssss. I tested it in an other directory as a standalone application, & now, it works!!!!!.
Then now, I have a question : how to integrate it in Dolphin6 in way to replace the original Orca displayed with. I don’t mind if this version is a beta one (It can’t be worst than it was!!!)
Best regards.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: iconv() in /home/content/e/t/a/etarenet/html/orca/inc/util.inc.php on line 226
Server XSLT support is not enabled, try to use client XSL transformation http://your-domain/orca_folder/?xsl_mode=client
I change the string (Server to Client) i try
www.mydoiman.xx/orca/?xsl_mode=server
and same result.
(I’m very new to Orca, so if this is already in there, I apologize)
Orca Suggestions:
1. On the forum index, ex: BoonEx Products, I’d like to add a description about what type of posts you’ll find in this folder.
2. I’d like the ability to resize the messages, so the pic and text is larger.
Preview of topic on mouse hover would be a nice touch.
how do you get it to integrate with Dolphin??
My host wanted to know what XSL module is best for Dolphin/Orca
Dom XSLT
OR
Sablot XSLT
Only when I get a response from Boonex will they load it.