Guestbook v2.5 released

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

just released the Final version of Guestbook 2.0.

Changelog since 1.9

v2.0 Nov 24, 2007
 - Added new captcha functionality (Thanks to FunkyMF)
 - Added javascript improvement for entries and captcha (Thanks to FunkyMF)
 - Added new language variables for captcha to the language files
 - Fixed again some short tags.

v2.0RC2 Jan 12, 2007
 - Fixed short tags in gstbk_page.php(Thanks to YeShakka)

 v2.0RC1 Dec 28, 2006
 - added email notification (Thanks to Rob Smith)
 - Entry sort in admin now the same as in frontend (Thanks to Rob Smith)
 - Added support for ban_mod Modul (Thanks to Rob Smith)
 - set default ordering to DESC
 - Smileys are now optional
 - fixed some minor bugs
 - file and code cleaning
 - changed all copyright notices now includes 2007
 - added new upgrade script wich supports the new upgrade function
   of WB 2.6.5
 
 v1.9.1 Dec 11, 2006
 - added approval features (Thanks to Phil Emerson)

So i hope you like this new version.

Have fun

Matthias

[Luckyluke]

Hi,

I've just installed the module on WB 2.6.7 and it works fine!
Thanks a lot!
In the attachment the dutch language file with the extra text.

Luc

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

thanks for your translation. Added your file to the modul on the addons page.

Matthias

[Benedikt.Seidl]

hello

if you add . " ".page_link(  "/". page_filename( get_menu_title($page_id)) ); to line 188 in file gstbk_save.php the mail you recive when someone writes into your guestbook includes a link to the guestbook. useful if you abuse the guestbook for a comment-funktion on several pages


SEIDL.

[roguesfan92]

Could someone kindly please tell me how I can edit the "Sign guestbook"link and change it to "Add Your Comments to the Bulliten"?

Many Thanks.

Nick

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

simply change the text in the language file of the modul (/modules/guestbook/languages/EN.php)

Matthias

[roguesfan92]

Thankyou very much indeed

[Achrist]

There is a minor error in view.php line 106: "position" should be "$position".

[atill]

Hello to all!

I just installed the guestbook module. Everything seemed to be fine, until I wanted to do a test entry.

When I click on the link "Add new entry" I'm redirected to the "home"-page of my wb directory and not to the page where I get the entry-form.
I had no problems during the installation, the guestbook-backend works fine as well.

So, what do I do wrong? Any ideas?

Thank's for your help!
atill

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

@atill

1. Please do not double post the same question twice in the forum. This spams the forum and didn't force the help. I deleted your double entry.

2. Please try to uninstall and reinstall the guestbook. Maybe something did went wrong during install.

3. If this didn't help can you give us some infos about your server config?


Matthias

[edited by doc]
added do not to the first statement 

[Argos]

I just finished installing the guestbook module on a client site. All looks fine, but the guestbook entries still show English month names, although I have set the language of the site to Dutch. How can I change that?

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

the modul has NL language file included. If you change the wb settings (or page settings) to NL it should show all in Dutch. The configuration of Date is also taken from the settings of WB. If you wanna have displayed the Date in another way, change it in settings of WB.

Have fun

Matthias

P.S.
Version 2.1 is already finished, will be released in the next few days after doing a few more tests 

[Argos]

Thanks Matthias! I had used the Dutch language file, and also set Dutch language in WB settings, but I had forgotten to check the date display option there 

I look forward to the new version!

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

just released the Final version of Guestbook 2.1.

Changelog since 2.0

v2.1 Jan 05, 2008
 - Added functionality to edit frontend.css and backend.css from within the modul (Thanks to doc)
 - Removed the styles from body and added frontend.css and backend.css
 - reorganized all language files
 - changed all copyright notices now includes 2008
 - Fixed issue with search when guestbook is used in different sections (Thanks to Achrist)

So i hope you like this new version.

Have fun

Matthias

[EinoLeino]

Hello!

I try install version 2.0 but i get this erros message:

Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Operation not permitted in
/home/blahblah/public_html/framework/functions.php on line 216

in file functions.php line 216 says: chmod($name, $mode);

I have tryit CHMOD files, but that dosen't work, what's wrong?

[Stefek]

Hello,
I'd like to ask, if this version is more spam secure as the earlier ones for I allready had a lot of problems with this and switched to another guestbook which isn't implemented into WB at all.
I would love to install a new version - an I would - if I could be sure, that it really works fine with no more problems with spam.

Any experiences on it?

Stefek

[doc]

Hello,

no spam protection method is secure per default. However, the 2.1 release features maths captchas (multiplication, addition and substraction) instead of graphical captchas which are more secure than the previous captcha.

However, if one mechanism is often used on websites, it is always attractive for spammers to have a closer look on the mechanism behind.

Regards Christian

[ruebenwurzel]

@stefek

had also problems with spam wit the old guestbook. But since introducing the new way of verification with version 2.0 on all my guestbooks since more then one month i didn't have any spam. So what i say for now, yes this spam protection works very good (again thanks to FunkyMF for the code). But also as christian wrote. The more a technic is in use the more it gets attraktive for spammer to crack this.

Matthias

[Stefek]

@christian, ruebenwurzel

Thank you both.
I'll give it a try!

The new "e- mail notification" sounds nice.
Is there some effort to implement a method where the admin himself has to give free (set on public) the entry.
This would be a great funcion in order to protect the gbook.

Stefek

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

Is there some effort to implement a method where the admin himself has to give free (set on public) the entry.

Already included since a few versions. Please before post have a look to the modules.

Matthoas

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

just released the Final version of Guestbook 2.2.

Changelog since 2.1

v2.2 Jan 13, 2008
 - Added URL from guestbook to E-Mail message (Thanks to benedikt_seidl)

So i hope you like this new version.

Have fun

Matthias

[Achrist]

Hi
I have attached a Danish language translation file, DA.php, which is compatible with rel. 2.2 and 2.1.

Feel free to include it in the next release.

Regards
Allan

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

thanks for your addition, added your language file (without your extra variables) to the guestbook version 2.2.

Matthias

[escpro]

hI @LL

I have 2.2 running but no direkt menue.
my path is www.mywb.de/kontakt/guestbook.php
so all runnings ok.... - but the email to admin sendings mails:
"Sie haben einen neuen Gästebucheintrag http://www.mywb.de/pages/guestbook.php"
and this is false...

In the gstbk_save.php is the code:

Code:

//send mail
        if($admin_email!=""){
            $mail_subject = $MOD_GUESTBOOK['MAILSUBJECT'];
            $mail_message = $MOD_GUESTBOOK['MAILMESSAGE'].'<a href="[b]'.page_link(  '/'. page_filename( get_menu_title($page_id)) ).'[/b]" target="_blank">'.page_link(  '/'. page_filename( get_menu_title($page_id)) ).'</a>';
            $wb->mail(SERVER_EMAIL,$admin_email,$mail_subject,$mail_message);
        }

 

now i see the probs in this code .. can anyone help my.

Michael

[webtigger]

In addition to that problem with the ur in the mail-link, it seems that there is a bug that allowes a bot to insert entries in the guestbook-database (advertisements, etc.).

When I made a backup of my database yesterday, I saw a lot of advertise-entries in the database-table "mod_guestbook". I'm quite shure that i didn't saw just one of these entries in the admin-backend of the guestbook module, and by now I'm still only able to see theses entries using the sql-file or having a direct look at my database via phpMyAdmin.
To me, it looks like these entries are kind of "faded-out" on the module backend, even to the view of an admin-account...

Does anybody have an idea about how this could happen, or does WB (or maybe the guestbook-module) has a security bug?