Sheila Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 One of my clients' guestbooks has started to be spammed & a couple of changes to the message entry options would help her a lot. I wonder if any of you script gurus out there can give me some pointers please? I don't want to install anything fancy since she's not up to speed with managing scripts (it's not my strongest suit either - I hit the upgrade button late last night & had to ask the Help Desk to put the resulting mess right a few seconds later. Yikes!!). All I'm looking to do at this point is to stop anyone adding comments to existing messages plus stopping anyone including their own url in the data they provide. I'm not confident about finding the relevant bits of code within the g/b admin to fiddle with this myself - can anyone tell me what I should be altering/removing to achieve what I want to do? Many thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 After making a backup of my advanced guestbook database cpanel > backup > download database I installed Lazarus Guestbook, written by a family member, Carbonize, its a rewrite of the advanced guestbook. And then I ran the upgrade mode and lost no messages. Now I can accept or delete posts before they show up on line, by using the moderate mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted December 31, 2005 Author Share Posted December 31, 2005 I'll have a look at it - thanks Don! I suspect my client won't want to be involved in moderating messages & frankly I don't have the time available to run that part of her site...... hence wanting to amend the visitors' options a little rather than install a different script Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTD Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 You don't have to do that with Lazarus Guestbook. It is just an option that is offered in the admin section of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted January 2, 2006 Author Share Posted January 2, 2006 We have a solution! If you care to call it that My client panicked at the mere idea of having to do anything herself & asked me to remove the guestbook. Problem solved. Perhaps the next time a client asks for a guestbook I'll do the Lazarus install right from the outset! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTD Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 We have a solution! If you care to call it that My client panicked at the mere idea of having to do anything herself & asked me to remove the guestbook. Problem solved. Perhaps the next time a client asks for a guestbook I'll do the Lazarus install right from the outset! That is to bad. She could have kept all her present GB entries. When she upgraded to Lazarus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonize Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Not to mention Lazarus has excellent support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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