Messages posted by: Carbonize

Speak to your hosts as it looks like a problem at their end with the server.

Are you sure you provided the right location for your MySQL server?

What version are you using? Are you sure they haven't managed to get hold of your username and password? Also are you using the database version or the textfile version?

No I mean when you are putting the question in when making the poll. <b>YOUR QUESTION</b>. You can use HTML in both the question and answers.

Just add the bold tags when adding the question.

Not unless you write a script to do it for you. But why would you want to?

if thats the IP it's coming from then block the IP.

A lot of forums come with a calendar option. Look at SMF

1 - Use a better FTP client such as FileZilla.

2 - You would need to manually edit the date in phpmyadmin and use www.unixtimestamp.com to get the correct stamp.

.htaccess is a instruction file for the Apache server. In this case it is used to say that nobody can access the admin folder except the server. You can't see it in FTP as files like this are hidden. There will be an option in your FTP client to see hidden files.

Yes the changes you specified will do the trick.

1 - All search engine bots check your domain for a robots.tx file when every time they visit. Spambots only search sites looking for email addresses. Spammers use Google etc to generate a list of sites using a given script.

2 - CAPTCHA is an attempt at a Turing test which is where you test for an intelligent response. Another good option is randomised input names but some spammers are just using api to fill forms in via a web browser.

3 - Most decent scripts let you change the prefix used for the database tables. By default Lazarus uses book_ the same as AG but you can change this easily in the config.inc.php file. I personally have four scripts using a single database despite the fact my host offers me unlimited databases.

I'm hoping to have Laz 1.7 out before to long. Just working on polishing off the search function.

the admin username and password is stored in the database and not in any file.

Lazarus is a fork of the Advanced Guestbook. This means I took the Advanced Guestbook code as my starting point and then started adding/changing things. Was it really July I released 1.6.1? Anyway I called it Lazarus because at the time Advanced Guestbook was a dead project that hadn't been updated in years.

Lazarus is always being worked on and at present 1.7 beta 5 is available to download.

You will find information on updating Advanced Guestbook to Lazarus in the FAQ section of http://lazarus.carbonize.co.uk

As to which is best. I cannot say as it's a matter of taste.

Whilst my original mod works it's half arsed. Updating to 2.4.2 not only adds captcha but addresses other issues with the guestbook.