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Your guestbook control panel possesses extremely powerful features enabling
you to completely and absolutely customize your guestbook. You can even have
your guestbook display different output depending on what users post. This document
should help you to get the most out of it. You might want to print it out since
it is quite comprehensive and some sections are based on each other.
UPDATE: Getting Spammed?
Using a random code generator script, in order to post to your guestbook, the
user must retype the randomly generated code which appears in your guestbook
above the submit button. Example our demo: http://www.kbnet.com/book/html/x.html
The full version uses ARIAL font and contains the following fields: Your Name,
Your Email Address, Your Homepage Address, Your Comments (Sorry no HTML tags).
These are the standard fields provided with new guestbooks. Copy this code in
your Control Panel's Input Form HTML Window. ** NOTE: this will remove
all other fields you may have. See below to modify only the submit button. Download
code here: http://www.kbnet.com/book/1spamFullVersion.txt
The short version should replace your SUBMIT button code only in your Control
Panel's Input Form HTML Window. Reminder: Make sure your closing font
tags are still available. Download code here: http://www.kbnet.com/book/1spamCodeGeneratorOnly.txt
Please note that these scripts do not work on Mozilla web browsers and are built
for use on guestbooks using 'name', 'email', 'url', 'comments' fields. If you
use additional fields, you must modify the code appropriately. Otherwise, the
code will not work. Sorry, we cannot customize this code for free.
In either case, you may add or delete appropriate words to the filter in order
to fully customize it for your needs. Just follow the syntax in the code with
quotes and commas.
Overview of the Control Panel and Guestbook Server
All
Options Described
Customizing
Input Form and Output Templates
Experts:
Global Variables and conditional "IF" Syntax
Examples
of Input Forms and Output Templates
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Your guestbook html is created new each time somebody posts a message in your
guestbook or you change the templates or options in your guestbook control panel.
Your database together with your setup file provide the information to this
process. So if either one is updated, your HTML File must change, too.
The advantage of this setup is that you have the input form section ("Sign my
Guestbook") and your guestbook entries listing ("View my Guestbook") in one
document and your actual guestbook consists of one or more HTML files versus
a database program, boosting speed and reliability.
Since your setup file is separate from your database file, you can change your
template as you wish without affecting the data of entries posted. You have
full flexibility with this method. You can, for example, have a field "Where
are from" in your input form, and not display it in the listing of posted messages.
The data that is provided for this field will be saved in your database and
forwarded to you by e-mail (if you selected the option), but it would only be
displayed if you include it in the Output Template. You can switch between displaying
it and not displaying it without affecting the data that is there.
Besides the four general fields (Name, E-Mail, URL, Comments) you have the option
to define 10 fields for yourself. Now it gets tricky: Once you define a certain
field (Let's say field #1 is "Where are you from"), the data people post will
be saved as field #1 in your database. If you ever decide that you don't want
"Where are you from" anymore, the data people posted will still remain in your
database as field #1. You don't need to display it but it is there, so you can't
just switch and make field#1 "How Did You Find Us?". Editing your templates
is not as hard as you may think, just look at the samples. Your templates are
already created in the registration process (dependent on the layout you chose),
so you just need to edit them. You can also easily copy and paste the samples
into the fields in your control panel.
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There are 14 predefined fields
altogether:
"name", "email",
"url", "comments",
"xfield1", "xfield2",
"xfield3", "xfield4",
"xfield5", "xfield6",
"xfield7", "xfield8",
"xfield9", "xfield10"
The 10 "xfield" fields are for you to create your own stuff. For example you might want to have an option for people to leave the name of their hometown. The HTML line in your Input Form HTML could look something like this:
What's Your Hometown: <INPUT TYPE=Text NAME=xfield1><BR>
It does not matter under which fieldname you save a certain piece of information, but you should start out with the lower fields ("xfield1","xfield2",etc.) because the upper fields will have advanced options in future versions (as described in the "Input Form for Experts" section)
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