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You will not lose any of your posts. As I said it uses the exact same database/database format as Advanced Guestbook. I was an Advanced Guestbook user for many years before I decided to make my own fork of it.

Any help you need with Lazarus feel free to contact me or use the forums on the Lazarus site.

Lazarus is based upon Advanced Guestbook and uses the exact same database structure. I always recommend backing up your database first just to be safe. Simply download Lazarus, edit the database information in admin/config.inc.php file to match that in the config.inc.php file of your Advanced Guestbook. Then upload Lazarus to your space and visit install.php in your web browser and select the update option to add the new fields etc to the database.

As I have stated earlier Gtalk is BETA. Google wish to make sure the foundations are solid before adding things like emoticons, filetransfer etc which to me makes good coding sense.

Which guestbook script are you currently using?

Like English and American English.

Probably also be worth applying it to the msn id as well. I only made this mode after reading this thread but now I know the basics of the script I could extend it to use javascript for the mailto links if required.

lol cajunman4life posted that whilst I was writing my mod and posting it here.

I just installed SMF for a friend to play with and just modded it to midly encrypt the email addresses using ascii code. www.carbonize.co.uk/smf. Open Sources/Load.php and find >/* This file has the hefty job of loading information for the forum. */ just after that put >function html_encode($string) { $ret_string = ''; $len = strlen( $string ); for ($x = 0; $x < $len; $x++) { $ord = ord($string[$x]); $ret_string .= ''.$ord.';'; } return $ret_string; } Next find >'email' => &$profile['emailAddress'], and replace with >'email' => html_encode(&$profile['emailAddress']),

Can you see png's on other sites ok?

But as it states they are using the lazy approach for browser checking so if you change your useragent to spoof IE6 it lets you carry on as normal. Silly silly tech guys.

Pah I name all my directories using a capital letter and the name comes from the script I am using. MS really do have some stupid ideas for stopping nastiness.

All hail the mighty MS. Apparently IE7 reports the forum on my guestbook site ( http://lazarus.carbonize.co.uk/Phorum ) as a phishing site. Go figure.

Just sent myself a test email and it looked like it had come from my designated address. Only way I could tell it was from my Gmail acount was reading the headers.

Hmm I would be suprised if the spammers bothered to get your anti bot test question and put it in their script/program. The one thing I alway sask people who say they are getting spam even with the human verification is this, do you have another copy of either Lazarus or Advanced Guestbook on your server that is pointing at the same database as the copy you use on your site?

You should put the entire function in an if statement so it's only run if some data has been submitted. I usually give my submit button a name and check for that in the post array.

Who knows for sure.

Put in a die statement just before the mail functionto make sure it's getting there. You also have an error >com>nX-Mailer I think you meant >com>\nX-Mailer

The probably haven't rolled it out to the swedish version yet. You could try switching to English, making the changes then switching back.

Yes but given that I only managed to stumble upon it today I thought I'd post it here for those to whom it is news. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4186972.stm shows that this spyware was still active and still infecting people on 26th of August so I'd say it was still news worthy.

I should of also added that phpBB is undergoing a major script audit as they realise the base code is over three years old and things have changed a lot since then.

I found this link somewhere on the net. It is in regards to a variant of the CoolWebSearch malware that installs it's self via exploits in IE. Only this one reports your passwords etc to a server - http://www2.spywareinfo.com/2005/08/08/569

It all depends on what you want the forum for and how much it is going to be used. The forum on the subsite for my guestbok script is mainly for support so I didn't need all the whistles and bells. I chose Phorum for this as it is fast and basic but still allows attachments etc. On my main site I wanted something slightly more powerful but not overly complex so I went with phpBB as it has a lot of features but you don't need to read a manual to use it (unlike IPB). Also you can extra features to phpBB via it's huge database of mods. If you are planning on running a busy forum where the forum is the main emphasis of the site then you would be better off using something like IPB as it has a moer powerful admin. Of course phpBB Olympus should be out shortly and that has a lot more settings in the Admin. As to SMF, Ikonboard, vBulleting etc I could not say as I have never used them.

He has. Only a company with something to hide would lock or delete a thread that was criticising them. If a person has something to say about the way something is done it is good business practise to confront them and discuss it, even if what they said was wrong.

Trust me I don't think you care but I posted it as it was relevant to the thread.