Guestbook Question

[trefilov22]

I am having a problem with making a guestbook. I want to have a guestbook, but I want to be able to approve what shows on the guestbook before it actually posts the comment. I have had problems in the past of people putting all kinds of spam crap in the guestbook and want to not have that problem. Right now I don't have a guestbook on either site that I have (www.jafhl.us or www.thesalvifamily.com). Any ideas or suggestions, please let me know!

 

Brian

[TCH-Bruce]

You can try Lazarus Guestbook or check out some guestbook scripts over at hotscripts.com

[TCH-Don]

Lazarus Guestbook has a setting in the admin panel to moderate postings.

It cut out all spam for me.

[trefilov22]

You can try Lazarus Guestbook or check out some guestbook scripts over at hotscripts.com

 

Is that something that is easy to set up? I also want to be able to change the color scheme to match the site I am doing, although thats not the most important thing, and I can live without that.

 

 

[TCH-Thomas]

It´s basically just to modify the config.inc.php to your needs, upload the files, run an install script, set a few permissions, and you are ready to go.

 

As for the customization, there are several things you can change to your needs.

[TCH-Don]

To install Lazarus guestbook

log into your cpanel

go to MySql

 

Be sure that in MySql you

 

1 - created the database

2 - created a user

3 -added the user to the database (go back to MySql and find the Add user

select the user and database, and then Add user to database)

 

 

Then to connect to the database in a script use:

 

host: localhost

database: yourCpanelName_databaseName

user: yourCpanelName_databaseUser

password: mypassword

 

* Note password is just as the password,

do not add the CpanelName to it.

 

write down the info.

 

go to the Lazarus site to download the script

unzip to a folder on your computer.

edit the admin/config.inc.php file to add your database info

upload the script to a folder on your site

change the folder permissions as per the readme file

and run the site/folder/install.php file

select install.

when done delete the install.pgp file.

go to to site/folder and log into the admin panel with the user/pass you entered when you ran the install file.

visit the style section to change colors.

at the top of the style section you will see the php include code to embed the guestbook on a page on your site.

[JTD]

You can also use the include code that is provided right in the Lazarus admin panel to add the guestbook right into your site. So in effect it looks just like it.

[trefilov22]

It´s basically just to modify the config.inc.php to your needs, upload the files, run an install script, set a few permissions, and you are ready to go.

 

As for the customization, there are several things you can change to your needs.

 

This may sound really dumb, but where would I put in this information that I set up wtih my SQL DB? I found and opened the file for editing, but all of the info there is greek to me....

 

B

[TCH-Don]

In the file admin/config.inc.php

you wil see the section for your database info

just fill in the info you wrote down when you created the database, user and password

as in my above post.

 

>/* database settings */

$GB_DB['dbName'] = 'yourCpanelName_databaseName'; // The name of your MySQL Database
$GB_DB['host']   = 'localhost'; // The server your database is on. Localhost is usually correct
$GB_DB['user']   = 'yourCpanelName_databaseUser'; // Your MySQL username
$GB_DB['pass']   = 'yourDatabasePassword'; // Your MySQL password

/* misc */

[carbonize]

Or cheat.

 

1 - Log into cPanel and goto the scripts section.

2 - Get cPanel to install Advanced Guestbook for you.

3 - Download Lazarus.

4 - Copy the database information from the Advanced Guestbook config.inc.php file to the Lazarus config.inc.php file.

5 - Upload the entire Lazarus folder (lazarusb is the default folder name).

6 - Run install.php by visiting it in your web browser.

7 - Select update.

8 - Delete install.php.

9 - Delete Advanced Guestbook folder. Delete the folder that is and not delete AG using the delete option in cPanel as ths will delete the database as well.

 

 

Any problems once set up feel free to post them in the Lazarus Forums where either I, or one of my users, will gladly help you (sometimes they even manage to do so without being sarcastic hey JTD).