This page explains how parental controls work in the default skin

Introduction

The parental controls works by checking a movie's rating against the listed child's age. If the movie is rated higher then your child's age, it will prompt you for a password. If the movie is not rated higher then the childs age, you will be granted access to the movie's detail page.

Also, if parental controls are turned on, the page up/down keys will be disabled on the details page. So that a child can not go into a movie their old enough to see, and then use page up/down to get into one they're not old enough to see.

Details

Step 1:

To turn parental controls on open skin-options.xsl and change "parental-control-on" from false to true

<!-- Index Option #4:  This turns parental controls on in the index -->
<xsl:variable name="parental-control-on">true</xsl:variable>

Step 2:

Set the number of children you have. NOTE: 3 is the current maximum

<!--Index Option #5:  This sets the number of children you have -->
<!--Only applies if you have parental-control-on set to true. -->
<!--The value can only be 1,2 or 3 currently -->
<xsl:variable name="number-of-children">3</xsl:variable>

Step 3:

Set the ages of each of your children.

• If you only have one child you only need to set the age of "childs-age-youngest". The other two will not matter.
• If you only have two children, set the age for "childs-age-youngest" and "childs-age-oldest"
• If you have three children, set all three child's ages

*<!-- Index Option #6: Age of your youngest child, if applicable (NOTE: use this one if you only have one child)-->
<xsl:variable name="childs-age-youngest">8</xsl:variable>

*<!-- Index Option #7: Age of your middle child, if applicable-->
<xsl:variable name="childs-age-middle">12</xsl:variable>

_<!-- Index Option #8: Age of your oldest child, if applicable-->
<xsl:variable name="childs-age-oldest">14</xsl:variable>

Step 4:

Set the passwords to give your children.

• The password you give to the middle child will ONLY work for movies/shows they are old enough to see.
• The password you set for the oldest child will ONLY work for all movies/shows they are old enough to see. This is the only password to give out if you only have two children.
• The master password will work for ALL movies/shows. This is the only password that matters if you only have one child.

<!-- Index Option #9: This is the password to give to your middle child (if applicable)-->
<xsl:variable name="parental-password-middle">aaa</xsl:variable>

<!-- Index Option #10: This is the password to give to your oldest child-->
<xsl:variable name="parental-password-oldest">jjj</xsl:variable>

<!-- Index Option #11: This is the master password for parental controls, it works on all movies-->
<xsl:variable name="parental-password-master">ttt</xsl:variable>